TED

Technology/Entertainment/Design

annual conference created by Richard Saul Wurman, now run by Chris Anderson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TED_conference

http://www.ted.com/

TedTalks are presentations from TED available to everyone now as Video downloads http://www.ted.com/tedtalks and on Google Video.

• Sept'2010 Fast Company list of "greatest hits".
• Nov'2013 Chris Bailey summarizes his lessons from watching 70hrs of TED videos.

TedBooks are Thin Book/EBook-s from the same folks. http://www.ted.com/pages/tedbooks

• 2011-01-29-TedThin Books
• for Barnes And Noble Nook

TEDx are independent TED-like events, which can be organized by anyone who obtains a free license from TED, agreeing to follow certain principles.