The image above represents one of the featured topics on the homepage of the new TED Talks website announced today. The new website’s content is rich and interesting, and so is the format. As all the talk goes on about Web 2.0 type changes in the virtual world, a terrific place to see those changes in action is in what the web designers are doing with site relaunches. A very participatory feel to the new TED site is how you can ‘resize’ the homepage by: most talks, most emailed, most discussed, recently updated. For example, ‘What Makes Us Happy’ gets very small for most emailed and among the biggest for most discussed.

The press release for the new TED website begins:

April 16, 2007. New York, NY. TED, known for its annual invitation-only summit of the world’s brightest minds, today unveiled the new TED website (www.ted.com), showcasing the extraordinary talks that have made TED famous. With its striking design and groundbreaking video technology, the free site encourages audience participation consistent with its tagline, “Ideas worth spreading”.

The image above represents one of the featured topics on the homepage of the new TED Talks website announced today. The new website’s content is rich and interesting, and so is the format. As all the talk goes on about Web 2.0 type changes in the virtual world, a terrific place to see those changes [...]