DLD NYC 14
2014-04-30..2014-05-01
New York City, United States
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| DLDnyc Highlights | 02m | |
DLDnyc is a successful premiere of an international Digitalkonferenz held in New York from 30.04. to 01.05.2014 and it runs for one and a half days. The… | ||
| Welcome | Steffi Czerny, Yossi Vardi, Paul-Bernhard Kallen | 18m |
Welcome remarks anchor a new DLD New York as an expansion from a Bavarian castle into a global community that draws 6,000 people and plans a bigger venue April… | ||
| Big Picture - The Investment Triangle | Hommels, Vardi, Kallen, Rosen, Henry Blodget | 40m |
Business Insider claims it passed the Wall Street Journal in global readership; tech stocks swing — Amazon down 26%, Twitter down ~36%, Tesla off ~20–25% from… | ||
| Winners/Losers in a Digital Age | Scott Galloway | 23m |
L2 now scrapes 5,000 brands across 11 markets to rank winners and losers and predicts tangible shifts: Instagram 15x engagement vs Facebook and 25x vs Twitter… | ||
| 20 Years of Tech Journalism | John Markoff, Steven Levy, Jessica Lessin | 22m |
Journalism starts as hobbyist reporting and becomes mainstream but the practice shifts: chasing “most emailed” metrics and instant aggregation often replaces… | ||
| It's not linear! 20 Years of Funding | Alan Patricof, Moshe Lichtman, Scott Levine, Zeev Klein, Christoph Braun | 33m |
Panel traces a shift from capital scarcity to abundant seed checks, documents a real growth gap where startups hit tens of millions in revenue and no buyer… | ||
| Beauty of Failure | Don Dodge, Pat Mitchell | 20m |
Argues that deliberate risk-taking and repeated iteration beat playing it safe, citing Google's moonshots culture that rewards hitting 60–70% of an impossible… | ||
| Bavarian Intermezzo | Tegernseer Tanzlmusi | 04m |
Tegernseer Tanzlmusi performs a short live set that brings Bavarian folk dance music to the United States, delivering tight arrangements on traditional… | ||
| Monetize! On Numbers, People and Tools | Thomas, Chris Cunningham, Tal Keinan, Serge Matta, Robert LoCascio | 39m |
Mode Media (formerly Glam) rebrands while selling ads across ~5,000 partner sites and says video rises to double‑digit ad share of revenue; ComScore positions… | ||
| Holding Hands with the Sun | Olafur Eliasson | 10m |
Project updates the Little Sun solar lamp: about 220,000 units sold, roughly two thirds distributed where there is no grid, and recent Bloomberg $5 million… | ||
| Social Physics | Alexander Pentland, Clay Shirky | 13m |
A research program shows concrete results: a team wins the DARPA red balloon challenge by locating 10 hidden balloons in nine hours, demonstrating social… | ||
| Rap Up | Baba Brinkman | 05m |
An original rap written live during the conference condenses panels, punchlines and names into a ten-minute capstone: acappella lines and occasional beat drops… | ||
| Design & Violence | Paola Antonelli | 16m |
MoMA runs an ongoing project that treats design objects as probes into harm, publishing weekly posts on a WordPress platform and staging three Oxford-style… | ||
| News from the Neuro Geeks | Amol Sarva, Joscha Bach, Moran Cerf | 18m |
Fast rundown of concrete claims and prototypes: a funded Halo Neuroscience headset that boosts learning via electrical stimulation; smartphone software that… | ||
| Consciousness: A Top Down Solution to the Hard Problem | Deepak Chopra | 27m |
Claims that 70% dark energy, 25% dark matter, 0.1% visible make the universe mostly "nothing" and that consciousness is fundamental and nonlocal, localizing… | ||
| Rap Up II | Baba Brinkman | 03m |
Quick freestyle recap of DLD NYC first half, rapid-fire claims: advocates open digital design enabling 3D printed guns, imagines electrical “pain machines” in… | ||
| World in Transition II | Albert Wenger | 12m |
Claims that industrial society is yielding to information society, grounded in numbers: US Q1 GDP growth 0.1%, Craigslist shrinks classifieds by about $20… | ||
| Entrepreneurial Spirit around the Globe | Stephan Bayer, Vishal Gondal, Sam Shank, Or Offer, Oliver Heimes | 33m |
SimilarWeb claims to beat Alexa by offering a free website traffic ratings tool that shows referral sources and rankings; SofaTutor reports producing 10,000+… | ||
| The One Thing Fish Know Nothing About | Raghava KK | 09m |
Argues that photos and social feeds reshape behavior: the digital photo = raw data claim says images are easily manipulated and no longer reliably convey… | ||
| Science of Weird | Michael Lazerow | 16m |
Claims that being unusual yields better outcomes, backed by experiments and numbers: Asch shows most people conform on obvious line tests, Milgram finds 65%… | ||
| Future of Investment | J. Schwartz, D. Hirsch, D. Tisch, H. Morgan, G. Rolnik | 34m |
Panel claims global finance is inflating a bubble after seven years of zero real interest rates, pushing capital into early-stage deals and alternative credit… | ||
| Reduction! | Dimitar D. Sasselov, Edward Shenderovich, Simon Bond | 20m |
Argues that tight constraints force useful insight and shows concrete wins: a global Snickers relaunch pivots to the five-word line you're not you when you're… | ||
| Present Shock | Douglas Rushkoff | 13m |
Argues that present shock describes a cultural shift from kairos to clock time where smartphones and social media turn attention into a commodity, creating… | ||
| Freedom of the Internet: Europe and the US | Viviane Reding, Miriam Meckel, Diane Brady | 37m |
Argument: Europe treats personal data as an individual right under the charter of fundamental rights, while the US defaults to “allowed unless forbidden,”… | ||
| The New Social Media | Jonah Peretti, Jessica Lessin | 19m |
BuzzFeed presents concrete metrics and products: an internal claim of over 130 million uniques, 75% social traffic and 150 million YouTube views in one month… | ||
| Behavior Change in a Mobile World | Scott Kurnit, Keith Ferrazzi | 21m |
Claims that mobile enables repeatable behavior change by delivering tiny daily practices tied to coaching and community rather than one-off training, backed by… | ||
| Wearables | Stefan Olander, Sandra Lopez, Amanda Parkes, Vanessa Friedman | 33m |
"Wearables" are unquestionably the hot spot of fashion/tech synergy, but how much is talk and how much reality? How far are we really in bringing these dreams… | ||
| Generation World and Youth Marketing | David Sable, Dena Yago, David Arabov, Sean Monahan, Ross Martin, Christiana Falcone | 49m |
Claims that youth behavior compresses time between idea and outcome, forces brands to compete with the best experiences across industries, and makes… | ||
| Cracking the Code of the Art Business | Ben Genocchio, Christopher Vroom, Aditya Julka, Carter Cleveland, de Pury | 32m |
Panelists compare concrete results: the global art market is ~ $65B with online at about $1.57B (roughly 2.4%) and projected growth to ~$3.7B, and companies… | ||
| Everything Always Everywhere | Rafael Rozendaal | 14m |
Browser-based artworks live as standalone domains, each built as small scripts or interactive pages rather than images, currently totaling about 100 websites… | ||
| InspiredBy | Spencer Baim, Alexander Schlaubitz, Susann Remke | 26m |
Lufthansa partners with VICE to build a travel storytelling campaign: a 10-person documentary series plus photo journals published on Facebook and targeted to… | ||
| Latest Bedfellows - Brands & Content | S. Snow, P. Meier, L. Kircher, D. Moore | 36m |
Brands shift from making ads to mining data, tooling and platforms: one company buys a big‑data analytics firm to find real conversations, Metaio demos an IKEA… | ||
| Multi Channel Networks | Jimmy Maymann, Shari Redstone, Oded Vardi | 28m |
Discussion centers on concrete stakes: PewDiePie has about 25 million followers, NBA reports 60 million NBA TV users paying ~$200/year (a ~$12B headline… | ||
| Build a Community | Yancey Strickler | 17m |
Kickstarter is presented as a platform where specific communities fund concrete outcomes: $10.2 million Pebble after a $100k goal, 91,000 backers for Veronica… | ||
| IoT Meets Internet of People | Stefan Denig, David Kenny, Hilary Mason | 18m |
Argues that connecting sensors to infrastructure already shows practical wins: wing sensors and atmospheric data cut turbulence in half in five years, urban… | ||
| Building a Vertical Business for the Consumer Internet | Chad Dickerson, David Nussbaum, Cornelius Patt, Jeff Raider, Stefan Winners, Nicholas Carlson | 46m |
Panelists compare hard numbers and tactics: Etsy runs ~1.1M sellers and ~$1.35B marketplace sales with one‑third cross‑border and nine translated languages… | ||
| DLD Music | Miri Ben-Ari | 10m |
A short live set that fuses an electric violin with electronic beats and backing tracks, opening and closing with an original called "Dim the Lights" and… | ||
| Emerging Trends in Music | Rich Riley | 08m |
Shazam reports 450 million devices, about 92 million monthly users and roughly 18 million tags per day, driving nearly $300 million in music sales last year… | ||
| Spritz! | Frank Waldman | 06m |
A one-word-at-a-time reading engine claims to speed reading by aligning each word to a fixed reticle and streaming text at adjustable pace; the demo plays that… | ||
| Creative Cities | N. Abousteit, G. Schmerling, J. Sander, G. Shapiro, P. Hirshberg | 30m |
Highlighting the fact that cities are creative hubs in the progressive change of infrastructure, technology and society is the main point of the talk between… | ||
| Why Beauty Matters | Stefan Sagmeister | 17m |
Stefan Sagmeister (Sagmeister & Walsh) demonstrates the unity of beauty and functionality.
DLD (Digital-Life-Design) is a global network on innovation… | ||
| Breeding the Herd | Steve Case, Yossi Vardi | 29m |
AOL launches in 1985 when only 3% of people are online, one hour a week on average and bets on community—chat rooms and instant messaging—then acquires ICQ and… | ||
| nothing matches | ||