Morgan Stanley has made available their Internet Trends report for 2008.
The 72 page report covers:
The MIT Media Lab's John Maeda lives at the intersection of technology and art -- a place that can get very complicated. In this TED Talk in March 2007, he talks about paring down to basics, and how he creates clean, elegant art, websites and web tools. In his book The Laws of Simplicity, he offers 10 rules and 3 keys for simple living and working -- but in this talk, he boils it down to one simply delightful way to be.
Peter Morville is widely recognized as one of the founding fathers of information architecture.
In this Google Tech Talk, Peter explores the future present in mobile devices, search algorithms, ontologies, folksonomies, findable objects, digital librarianship, and the long tail of the sociosemantic web. Peter challenges us to think differently about the power of search - and findability - to redefine our sources of authority and inspiration in an increasingly digitized and networked information environment.
From Google Video (originally found on www.uxnet.org).
This is a Google talk with author and consultant Scott Berkun who recently released a book called The Myths of Innovation
"Much of what we know about innovation is wrong. That's the bet this talk takes, as it romps through the history of innovation, dispelling the mythologies we've constructed about how we got here. This talk, loosely based on the upcoming O'Reilly book (May 2007), will help you to recognize the myths, understand why they're popular (even if you don't believe in them), and how to use the truth to help you innovate today."
Known as "Captain Organic," Ross Lovegrove embraces design in this talk at the 2006 TED Conference. "In this energetic talk, industrial designer Ross Lovegrove expounds his philosophy of organic, "fat-free" design, and offers insight into several of his extraordinary products, including the Ty Nant water bottle and the Go and Moroso chairs."
You can watch below or click the "Click to View" link above.
In this entertaining and informative presentation filmed at the UPA Delaware Valley Chapter in July 2007, Jared Spool will show examples of the usability challenges we face as the web continues to change and evolve. He discusses the implications of "The Long Tail", the introduction of a mashup mentality in business environments, and how basic techniques, such as usability testing and field studies, change when social network is at the center of the design.
Originally sourced from the UPA Delaware Valley Chapter's Yahoo Group - http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/upapa/.
This is an 18-minute video from the 2006 TED Conference.
"At first, you'll think you're getting the mainstream rap about the blog revolution from Six Apart founder Mena Trott. But she quickly skips to the interesting part: herself. In this intensely personal talk, Trott demonstrates how important the intimate, the mundane and the everyday are to millions of bloggers worldwide. If it's important to you, it's important, Trott says. She shows pictures of her relatives and a departed pet; she shares an embarrassing summer camp story she posted on her own blog. (Contains strong language.)"