Launched in 2007, TED.com brought the experience of the TED Conference online, with its initial collection of nearly 100 TEDTalks. Today, 900+ TEDTalks find their home on TED.com, as does a variety of other content, including multi-language subtitles from the Open Translation Project, the profiles of the site's 700,000+ members, and TED Conversations. It's now visited 15 million times each month, reaching users from over 70 countries.
With the launch of TED.com, we placed each talk on its own individual web page, including an overview of the talk, a biography of the speaker, comments from site users, related links, and ways to rate the presentation. Talks are arranged by Themes such as "A Greener Future" and "Bold Predictions, Stern Warnings."
In the months that followed, we added ways to share and find talks, including "What to Watch Next," an editorial selection of related TEDTalks, and buttons to automatically post TEDTalks to social networks and social news sites.
In 2009, we made the biggest announcement since the initial launch: our Open Translation Project, which brought TEDTalks beyond the English-speaking world by offering subtitles, interactive transcripts and the ability for any talk to be translated by volunteers worldwide.
In 2010, we launched an expanded web presence for the TEDx program, including an integrated application system, organizer tools, and a complete index of every TEDx event in the world, each one searchable and listed in an interactive map.
In 2011, we released TED Conversations, a social media platform on TED.com that gives people access to engage notable TED speakers, and the broader TED community, in conversations that -- for the first time on a social network -- have a time limit.
In June of 2011, to mark the 5th anniversary of the first posted TEDTalks (6 talks on a bloglike homepage), we rolled out the ability to post a non-English TEDTalk, with subtitles appearing by default.