May 31
On June 20 and 21, FORA.tv presents one of our most popular conferences all year, the Gamification Summit 2012. The event focuses on the hottest new business trend around. At its most basic, gamification is applying the design, mechanics and thinking of games to anything outside of the game context. So, for example, shopping, filling …
May 31
The great gathering of thinkers and leaders is coming up at the end of this month. The Aspen Ideas Festival, now in its eighth year, continues to draw heavyweights like Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and Barbra Streisand. On the schedule this year: Famed cyclist Lance Armstrong, Ehud Barak, Israel’s minister of defense, and David Brooks …
May 30
Earlier this month, four climbers were added to the Mount Everest death toll, bringing the total to six for this climbing season alone. One climber tweeted: “Lots of dead or dying bodies. Thought I was in a morgue.” Still, it’s far below the 19 who died in 1996, the year made famous by Jon Krakauer’s …
May 30
Who really is the social king of late night? Conan O’Brien has 5.6 million followers on Twitter; Jay Leno has 376,000. Conan has 1.86 million Likes on Facebook; Leno has 429,000. O’Brien’s journey to supremacy has been a fast one, thanks, in part, to his “Ron Burgundy” strategy: Cable Show 2012: 3rd General Session, Conan …
May 30
Poor Madonna…even the queen of pop has lost her luster and now the fashionistas have weighed in…and you know how brutal they can be: Jane Seymour: ‘Madonna Is Trying Too Hard’, Looks ‘Yold’ from on FORA.tv Image courtesy of choupigloupi
May 25
This Sunday the Golden Gate Bridge celebrates 75 years as one of the world’s most beautiful and iconic bridges. San Francisco is planning a big affair: bands, lectures, parties. In 1937 construction began and the landscape of the San Francisco Bay Area (and the world) would never been the same. Each year guerrilla archivist Rick …
May 25
Just in time for Memorial Day Weekend (with plenty of extra time for video viewing), we’re offering 25 percent off premium single video programs in all categories: science, technology, culture, business, politics and the environment. To get you started, we’ve listed our top 25 most popular single premium videos of all time – Richard Dawkins, …
May 24
Where next will we see Peter Thiel, billionaire, founder of PayPal and early investor in Facebook? As NBC’s or CNN’s policy wonk on technology and all things digital? Or perhaps in public office, the Libertarian who actually gets elected? More and more Thiel’s wild ideas and incendiary comments are just the thing to grab the …
May 24
Chris Matthews has no trouble speaking his mind. Prickly is an understate. At the recent gathering of the cable industry, The Cable Show 2012, he was asked about a comment he made in 2008. “I felt this thrill going up my leg,” he said, referring to the Obama presidency. At the cable show, Steve Scully …
May 24
Last month on the 100th anniversary of the Titanic’s tragic maiden voyage, we wrote about the reasons why the ship sank and how a top secret mission by the U.S. Navy was critical to oceanographer Robert Ballard’s quest to find the wreck in the depths of the North Atlantic. Now, on FORA.tv, watch as Ballard joined …