The TSR got 100'000 views in 3 weeks on the LIFT08 content, but as our videos are hosted on numerous platforms (Nouvo, Google, Vpod, YouTube) it is not the only place where our speakers get a lot of online exposure. We are about to pass 100'000 views on Google Video:

For each person visiting the conference we get 150+ views on the online videos, which confirms there is strong interest in the ideas expressed at LIFT all over the world!

I just received the stats from the TSR regarding their LIFT08 videos mini-site, and the numbers are... beyond impressive! One video got around 50'000 views in three weeks, and overall the 100k bar has been passed. I will receive the precise figures soon but these numbers are a testimony to the quality of our speakers, and to the quality of the whole setting we managed to create around their ideas :)

I just finished uploading all videos and every single speech given at LIFT08 should now be online. The complete list of available videos is here, and check this cool piece about LIFT experience:

Paul Barnett's talk on "Massive Multiplayer Online games, movies, las vegas casinos and golf" got more than 13'000 views in one day, a pretty impressive number that puts him in second place in the all time LIFT videos ranking, second only to the amazing Sugata Mitra. Congrats Paul, and have a look at the video if you haven't yet seen it!

The Swiss television (aka the TSR, the amazing pros behind the best ever LIFT videos!) has a site called TSR Découverte, intended to promote the knowledge society to the general public. They just launched a full page dedicated to LIFT where you will find the extensive resources they have amassed over three years of close collaboration with LIFT.

This year we have had a record number of partnerships with public services and administrations (TSR, city and republic of Geneva, CTI startup, ICT Cluster, Federal office for culture among others), a trend that clearly shows LIFT is getting recognized as a useful and important event in our region. And as you can guess that makes me and the team quite happy and proud :)

Read the post of Nicolas Nova (LIFT's editorial manager) about Bruce Sterling's opening keynote, a speech that generated mixed reviews with some attendees who wondered out loud why he spent so much time talking about Sarkozy.

[Bruce] basically tied together foresight research techniques, black swans theory, goldilock hypothesis, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and the Internet to discuss a sort of attitude towards the future. [...] lots of people thought he was “ranting against” this weird French couple. This was not a rant by any means, rather an exemplification of the foresight method and how unexpected events as well as driving forces can be employed to described scenarios. He wanted to state that if we do not have the proper analytical tools, we won’t understand it. It requires to get the the driving forces: "Like an american who learns the rules of soccer, you probably still won’t like it very much, but you will understand why it matters to people, you’ll be able to put into a useful perceptive and get on with you own life."
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Now check Bruce's speech again, it should resonate in a very different way.

I am putting more and more videos on the LIFT website. I added Genevieve Bell, Rafi Haladjan, Eric Favre, Guy Pignolet, Marc Laperrouza, Jasmina Tesanovic, Bruno Bonnell, Noel Hidalgo and Markus Peschel. These videos are now downloadable in various formats like iPod, mp3 or 3gp (mobile phone).

^{Genevieve Bell on "Secrets, lies & the possible perils of truthful technology"}

We now have more than 80 speeches online which I find quite impressive :) More speeches are coming soon

The videos are now being uploaded to vpod which means you get to see them in full screen by visiting our channel on my.vpod.tv/liftconference. Thanks to the TSR and Nouvo for giving us the best videos we have ever had at LIFT. The quality of images, lighting and sound is just beyond expectations.

The TSR is uploading the videos as they get edited. Check nouvo.ch/liftvideo regularly for more presentations. Here is Jonathan Cabiria's presentation.

The LIFT Seoul videos are coming in thanks to the hard work of Sergio Villalpando and Leticia Martignon.

The first online video is Bruce Sterling's presentation on "Industrial Products And Ubiquity".

Check it out here, and for more videos it's liftconference.com/videos as usual.