Newmark's Door (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
Discusses TED, fora.tv, Bigthink.com, Bloggingheads.tv, and Edge.org. I've seen and enjoyed some of the stuff on TED and Edge.org.
Thunder Pig (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
Lefties are always looking at ways to undermine our Constitution, and one of them is doing away with the Electoral College. Here is a brief video laying out five reasons to support the Electoral College: The full event video may be viewed at FORA.tv , and was held at The Commonwealth Club .
D'log :: blogging no (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
I’m not sure I’ve ever mentioned Fora.tv here, but I should have. Fora is a lively ‘YouTube for intellectuals’. It’s American, so it’s done differently than the British might do such a website. For instance, business is taken seriously as a realm of innovative ideas and thus is one of the site’s five primary [...]
NewTeeVee (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Fora.tv Raises $2 Million; money bulks up the $4 million first round announced by the provider of videos of high-profile conferences back in May. (VentureBeat) Panasonic and Sanyo in Merger Talks; agreement would make Sanyo a subsidiary of the larger Panasonic, companies looking to complete the deal by the end of the year. (The New York [...]
Startup Meme (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Fora.tv an online platform that enables users to get their hands at videos of various events, including seminars, debates, etc sponsored by C-Span has got an additional $2 million. This follows another $2 million it had bagged in funding from Adobe Systems, Will Hearst along with others in its first round. With competitions from similar services like BigThink and Ted.tv , Fora.tv should be working...
Digital Media Wire (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
San Francisco - Fora.tv, a video site focused on political and cultural content, has added $2 million to its first round of venture capital funding, which was first announced in May, VentureWire reported, citing a regulatory filing. read more
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
, an online video site that some have called the “C-Span of the Web,” added $2 million more to a $4 million first round of funding announced in May, reports VentureWire. Before this, it received $2 million in seed funding from Adobe Systems, individual investor Will Hearst and others. The contributor of the recent funds has not been disclosed.
Open Culture (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
The Boston Herald ran a piece this weekend highlighting different web sites that feature free educational video collections. If you give it a read, you’ll see that it features some familiar and not so familiar sites –Meaningoflife.tv, Fora.tv, Bigthink.com, TED Talks, Bloggingheads.tv, and Edge.org. All are worth a look. So give them a go. And, while you’re at it, check [...]
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 26/10/2008
Over at fora.tv"Author Michael Ruhlman and Chef Dan Barber talk about modern industrial farming and agriculture in the United States as part of Chautauqua Institutions week long program called "What's for Dinner: Food and Politics in the 21st Century."
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 17/10/2008
-- Glam Media : Former Shutterfly CFO Stephen Recht is joining the Glam team to take on that same post, replacing co-founder Ernie Cicogna. Cicogna will remain with the company, taking on a broader role as EVP of Glam Partners and GM of the company's Publisher Network. Meanwhile, co-founder Dianna Mullins is expanding her role to include VP of culture and employee relations. Release . -- Fora.tv :...
Philanthropy 2173 (Free subscription) | 17/10/2008
As Executive Producer of the Giving Channe l on Fora.tv I'm thrilled to point you all over to some of the video coverage of the recent Social Capital Markets (SoCap08) conference. I covered the conference here , here and here and the conference gave me the final push I needed to go live on twitter . The week before SoCap08 I was at SSIR's conference on Online Giving Marketplaces . Interviews and pictures...
Beet.TV (Free subscription) | 16/10/2008
Blaise Zerega, the veteran magazine editor who left Conde Nast Portfolio earlier this month, has joined Fora.tv as President and COO, William Randolph Hearst, lead investor and vice chairman of the board announced today.
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 16/10/2008
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FORA.tv, the brilliant ideas network for video discourse and debate, today introduced noted journalist Blaise Zerega as its new President and COO. The
Righteous Jackass (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Who ever our next president is, I don't want to tempt fate with an assumption, I have two suggestions for the cabinet: Ravi Batra and Richard Elkus. One of my favorite websites lately is Fora.tv , which is a website dedicated to making ideas from around the world available on the web. Yesterday, I was lucky enough to come across author Richard Elkus, author of Winner Take All: How Competitiveness Shapes...
Food Wishes Video Recipes (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Thanks to FORA.tv and Slow Food Nation , the panel discussion I attended during the SFN'08 event has been made available online. This panel is a who's who of the slow food movement, and I found the discussion to be fascinating on several levels. The passion of the speakers is undeniable, their dedication to the mission is unquestioned, but beneath it all is a nagging frustration at not being able...
