TED

·       What is TED?

ð  TED Conferences, LLC ( Technology, Entertainment, Design ) is an American-Canadian media organization that posts talk online for free distribution under the slogan “ Ideas Worth Spreading “. TED was conceived by Richard Saul Wurman, who co-founded it with Harry Marks in February 1984 as a conference. It has broadened its perspective to include talks on many scientific, cultural, political, humanitarian, and academic topics. Chris Anderson, a British-American businessman, has been curated it through the non-profit TED Foundation since July 2019 ( originally by the non-profit Sapling Foundation ).

 

Richard Saul Wurman

 Harry Marks

Chris Anderson

Ø  Why TED app?

ð  TED app is a tool for browsing, downloading, and viewing TED talks. The speaker has a maximum of speaking 18 minutes or less to speak which is considered a short video to make the audience easy to watch and catch up with the meaning. It contains various videos with different speakers who have been through tough situations that became a priceless experience to share with people. Actually, most of the videos of TED are available on TED YouTube channel that which is easy to find, but the quality is lower than on the app. By the app, we can watch it in a high quality (HD ). The app offers a playlist that can be watched immediately or downloaded for later viewing. The app always provides the most recent popular videos. Moreover, users can change to any language which they want as a subtitle while watching.

TED provides a lot of videos with the best speaker of different nationality that has gone through hard situations, and million of failures most of the speakers are in different fields such as a singer, entrepreneur, politician...etc. It is a good source to boost inspiration, and encouragement, gain communication skills, as well as improve language.