The first Lift Asia talks are here! We start with Bruce Sterling's though-provoking presentation that dealt with how virtual money systems are the financial services for the new urban poor.

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If you do not live in a cave you have probably heard of that one of the most ambitious science project ever has been turned on this week by the CERN. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is getting ready to recreate the conditions that existed one second after the big band. Why? What are we looking for? What might be discovered?

Check Brian Cox's Lift07 speech to get some answers! He's a rock start turned scientist, and gave one of the best Lift speech ever.

For more videos liftconference.com/videos as usual. The Lift Asia talks are coming in 10 days normally, I saw some previews and they look really good!

Our friends at Daum have subtitled in Korean three of the best ever Lift speeches. Check them online on DaumTV!

호주 출신인 제네비브 벨은 멜버른과 캔버라 교외의 노동자 거주 지역과, 호주 중. 북부의 원주민 공동체를 오가며 성장하였다. 그녀는 인류학 박사 학위를 소지하고 있으며, 인텔 디지털 홈 그룹 내 사용자 체험(User Experience) 부문 이사로 재직중이다. 그녀는 현재 인텔에서 사회 과학자, 디자이너, 감성 공학자로 이루어진 학제간 협력 팀을 이끌고 있다.

• Genevieve Bell: Secrets,lies and the possible perils of truthful technology
• Paul Barnett: MMO's and Vegas, and golf
• Kevin Warwick: Implant technology to enhance human abilities

For some reason I missed Guy Vardi's talk when putting all 30+ videos online. Sorry Guy, here is your talk now available in streaming, download, 3gp and podcast.

For some reason I missed Guy Vardi's talk when putting all 30+ videos online. Sorry Guy, here is your talk now available in streaming, download, 3gp and podcast.

I have really enjoyed the TSR videos of LIFT-08. Superbly recorded (great sound as well as pix) and this all allows the great ideas from LIFT to live on long after the cheeze in the Fondue has gone cold. But I can't find the first open stage videos of Stephanie Booth: Going Solo: being a freelancer in a connected world and also Ewan McIntosh who did a great presentation on: How social media creates open education. Any chance of recovering these from the hard-disk?

I’m writing this note at Laurent’s request (he sounds a bit swamped right now) to give you some info about the missing videos.

A few of us Open Stage speakers have been wondering why our videos weren’t online. Let me state first that it is not a conspiracy of some kind or an indication that community-chosen presentations might be less regarded than “invited speakers”. If you look at the videos on nouvo.ch, you’ll see that Kevin Marks is the last recorded speakers — all those after him are missing too.

I’ve asked Laurent about this (believe me, he’s heard about it enough) and what has happened is that some talks were not edited live — so it seems it’s a bit of a struggle to get it done / retrieve them / put them online. We unfortunately don’t know when they’ll be available. I trust, however, that the recordings are safe and will not be lost.

This kind of situation is really annoying. As a speaker, who was relying upon this video, I feel extremely frustrated — and also a bit mad at myself, because knowing how important this recording was for me, I should have planned for a fail-safe and got somebody to do some dirty shooting “just in case”.

As a conference organiser, I dread that I’ll find myself in this situation at some point — it’s almost inevitable. When you announce something, even if it’s something that you’re giving graciously, people come to expect it and rely on it. And when things go wrong and it doesn’t happen the way they hoped, they react badly (me included) — when they probably wouldn’t have said anything in the first place if they hadn’t been expecting it.

I know Laurent feels bad about this, and they’re doing what they can to find a solution — amongst the myriad of other post-LIFT things they need to deal with.

Cross-posted to CTTS.

A few hours only after the Venture Night, all the videos of the talks are online on Klewel.ch:

http://www.klewel.ch/lift08venturenight.php

You can play back the videos, browse the slides. You can also search for words appearing in the slides.

Any feedback welcome. Enjoy!

Maël

Every year Tristan Pfund of Osmose does a short film to capture the ambiance of the conference. Check out this year's piece, you probably appear on the screen if you were at the conference.

More LIFT videos here.

The LIFT videos view count will get above 50000 this week on Google Video only. In less than 6 months, we have reached the amazing number of 49'481 with between 300 and 500 new videos watched everyday! Thanks to all the viewers, it's great to see all our speakers' ideas being spread all over the place!