Site: TED

by Matt on 31 March 2010

http://www.ted.com

Lots of videos of big ideas in the form of talks by famous, intelligent and interesting people.

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Pros

Superted

It is a genuinely well thought out and executed site and a really good example of free content. It’s quite generous as you would usually have to pay £10-£20 for a talk of TED calibre.

It is well thought-out. The homepage is nicely visual and gives you lots of choices for how to find a video. They’re not just bunged up there. We’re also fans of the wireframe-y site design.

Also the ‘interactive transcript’ for a lot of the websites is a very clever tool and a real glimpse into the future of combining text and video more closely as you can jump to any point in the vid.

Forget university. Go to TED.com.

Cons

Spotty

We’re long-time admirers of this site and don’t have anything bad to say. There is nothing pretentious or trying to be really original just for the sake of it. Just tons of great content.