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What one feature would you love to see added to TED.com?
The TED team is working on planning the future development and enhancement of TED.com, and the product development team would love to hear your ideas! What's one feature would you love to see on TED.com and why?
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collaborative innovation design technology
Jimmy Strobl 30+
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Peyton Huff
Luke Hobbs
Krisztián Pintér 200+
Jimmy Strobl 30+
Jimmy Strobl 30+
Jimmy Strobl 30+
Sorry for exceeding my comment limit... I'll stop now...
Jimmy Strobl 30+
Make an Open-Source/Coding section on TED.com
There are so many great ideas in Conversations and comments that require digital assistance to be realized.
Jimmy Strobl 30+
I'd like you (read team) to go through all the good ideas that spur from these two conversations!
http://www.ted.com/conversations/2456/do_you_have_a_suggestion_for_t.html
http://www.ted.com/conversations/1818/leave_one_idea_for_improving_t.html
I've emailed about this, started conversations spread it in other places then TED and so on and so on.
As you may notice I'm quite angry that all the ideas that sprung from these conversations never were implemented or got any feedback. I can take the lack of implementation but the the total lack of feedback is... not very TEDish, and that deeply disappoints me.
I even tried getting in touch with Chris Anderson (because of the complete lack of feedback) but I haven't his phone number (in his "email charter" he said to call if the email was too long) and you can't contact him through Facebook since the message function is disabled... And as I'm writing this I realize that I haven't emailed him through TED.com... but I'm quite sure that that option wasn't available back when I last tried to encourage TED to be all that it could be...
Anyhow, while my adrenalin is slowly depleting I'd like to give this advice: Give feedback to everyone that has taken their time and put so much effort into help building TED...
And please don't delete this comment because it's uncomfortable.
P.S Great conversation!
Ladan Wise 500+
Sorry you're so frustrated! I assure you that the TED team (despite its small size) works really hard and tries to be as responsive as possible.
As you can imagine, its pretty hard to respond to every single suggestion people share - even when we solicit ideas.
Some of the ideas here will go into future design changes; some of them won't for a lot of reasons. But they are all read and considered alongside all the various priorities and demands and ideas.
I hope you continue to share any ideas, if you have them.
Thanks
Ladan
Jimmy Strobl 30+
But
Can't we just put together a vast voluntary team to help build TED, wouldn't that be that be the best solution?
Henry Woeltjen 10+
Like if we begin talking about politics...and then the discussion kind of gets away from that...I am sure you could write some php to determine that and create a new thread under that heading.
"Bowling Balls are Cool"
You could then, at the very least, archive these little discussions that happen within a discussion. I just think its a cool idea to think about....and definitely something cool to have on the site.
I also think you guys should have people paying attention to the little variables in usage. What people are talking about...how they are talking about it. I think it would be cool to have the ability to see how often certain topics are coming up...and how many likes these specific opinions are getting.
Another cool thing would be "debates" where two people could go head to head...or groups could be formed on the site. You could allow people to create groups with names and a little picture to represent their group. They could then create their own topics for discussion based on their groups ideas. Other groups or individuals could then challenge these ideas in open or "challenged" debate.
The groups could be devided into different areas or generalized to cover anything. So you could have political groups...groups that focus on education....things like that.
pat gilbert 50+
Derek Young 30+
Jimmy Strobl 30+
John Frum 30+
By "feature on TED.com", I don't know how much of your emphasis was on TED and how much was on the ".com".
My wish for TED: of late, TED talks seem to be all touchy-feely-ooey-gooey. I want the T back. I used to watch almost every TED talk that was posted here. These days, hardly any. I never cared much for D anyway. There is all of YouTube for E.
My wish for ".com": I don't know what reasons you have for limiting comments to just 3 levels. If you do not wish to change that, please make a way to email us notifications whenever someone addresses us, the way I addressed you, "@Ladan Wise". When people can't write 4th-level comments, they often start a new thread, having addressed us in that manner.
Ladan Wise 500+
Thanks for your feedback - I really did mean TED.com and not TED overall.
Helena Ripoll Hazell 20+
Danger Lampost 10+
Rihan Schalkwyk
Ricardo Marques
Gail . 50+
Morton Bast 200+
Gail . 50+
Krisztián Pintér 200+
Tify Ndanoboi 30+
Seriously while many wont care in the 1st world, in the 3rd bandwidth is at a premium, and often one want to read the comments first.
Don Anderson 20+
When going back to a talk I have already seen to view the comments, I have to pause/stop the video every time I go back.
Jimmy Strobl 30+
ILAN ELRON
Very useful for multi-screen set-up when the mouse is a ways away.
Derek Young 30+
Jimmy Strobl 30+
pat gilbert 50+
Ed Schulte 50+
"All Opinions Are Vanity"
Tify Ndanoboi 30+
Derek Young 30+
Jimmy Strobl 30+
Robert Winner 50+
Thank you. Bob.
Krisztián Pintér 200+
pat gilbert 50+
Tify Ndanoboi 30+
You wanna play with the big boys, you're gonna need more than 200 points :)
Dan F 50+
Thumbs down was a bit more of a contact sport. I do miss some of the dynamics of the old days. Thumbs down had a cleansing affect on comments and perhaps stimulates a little more tension, but that can be inspiring. I do miss some of the drop outs. Perhaps a member should only be able to activate a thumbs down when they have positive points in their score with TED.
Also if a member has a posting pulled there would be an an automatic no thumbs down option for ten days or something like that. TED does need to keep things civil.
Krisztián Pintér 200+
Dan F 50+
Oops, didn't mean to spring off a position that wasn't there, but I still think there is value in feedback with thumbs up and thumbs down. Thumbs up only tips the scales to artificially favor a marketer, a patronizer, a talk or comment that is more politically correct, etc., at the expense of those of us less impressed, but unwilling to become petty.
John Frum 30+
The Abrahamic religions have one god, whose name happens to be "God". Therefore, God is still a god. Other religions have several gods, and none of them is called God. They have names like Vishnu, Thor, etc. I know it is confusing, but whose fault is that? ;-)
Spelling it with a capital G would give the impression that the conversation is only about Abrahamic gods.
Jimmy Strobl 30+
However I'm quite satisfied with the lower case solution.
Jedrek Stepien 10+
It should be more accurate so that it counts the big and the 'small' points. If I have 7 'big' points right now I want to know what does it take to "level-up", i.e. I want to see where am I with my points between 7 and 8.
It could motivate people for greater activity, and increase the general flow of ideas.
This system has enormous potential, trust me. And it is what I came up with waiting for my first badge :)
PS. Later, much later I would like to see people with +50 level being able to cast spells and upgrade their text - maybe use italics or bold fonts. And of course sell their 'developed' avatars for $$$
Krisztián Pintér 200+
Jimmy Strobl 30+
Dentor Marina
Jimmy Strobl 30+
Richard Krooman 50+
It is rediculous that you can only reply till 4 levels deep, and it is silly that I can't "summarize threads" so that all of it's replies will be under a [+] / 'more' button.
Jimmy Strobl 30+
Derek Young 30+
I suggest we add a new category called "action", as in what you believe needs to have a call to action or awareness upon something missed in the world that you feel is some type of injustice.
Jimmy Strobl 30+
Derek Young 30+
2) Ability to tag specific comments to specific members that are responses or to get a members attention that isn't in the conversation, but would suggest they join the conversation by tagging their name on a comment. This tag feature can be invisible, if desired.
3) The ability to have the website save unfinished comments when a member accidentally hits the "go back a page" button for comments/responses.
4) Have a feature to vote for someones conversation as a feature conversation and/or to vote for its removal from a ted featured conversation.
5) Parental filter for videos on Tedtalks.
6) Have a notifications bar that inform users that their comments has a response, conversation was approved/disapproved, someone sent someone an email message, and others can expand on this idea.
7) Revise, condense, clarify, and improve rules and instructions for all the different fields of Ted.com, such as ted events, ted prizes, etc.
8) Someway better categorize or reposition "popular topics".
9) Add a link to access tedtalks that are only on youtube and other ted supported sites.
10) Give members, who have legitimate businesses, a field to post that they are hiring or community collaborative events of the like that is well separated and categorized.
11) Better Quality Control on Comments for bullies and spammers.
12) Remove the instant play on ted videos or make it optional, please.
Thank you for taking our suggestions into consideration.
Jimmy Strobl 30+
2)yes.
3)I haven't the use (just open a new window), but yes.
4)yes!
5)hmm, I have to say no.
6)YEEES!
7)As above!
8)yes
9)Read #6, I copy, go to Youtube, paste and click... It's very bothersome.
10) Perhaps a Linkedin link on the profile?
11) is there a need?
12)Yes, I'd prefer to have Youtube embedded.
Yubal Masalker 200+
Presently even the translated talks (with subtitles) appear in their specific lists exactly in the same chronological order as the original English talks. This order is determined by the dates of the talks' original posting with English transcription on TED.com. But IMO, each translated talk should appear in each language's specific list by the order of it's translation date. Because those who need the translations are waiting for the talks to get translated and for them when the talk gets translated is like the talk was posted only then. They need to know, when they open the list of their specific language subtitled talks, which talks had been translated most recently so they can find them easily for watching.
Yubal Masalker 200+
After all, TED's forums are not gossip forums which fill every corner of the web. In gossip forums there's usually no need for large space to comment as the comments there are mostly superficial, unlike usually at TED.
Ram Sripathi
Jimmy Strobl 30+