Being Human Tribute Video Contest

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We love Being Human, and we love that you love it too! So we asked you to show us just HOW much you love it, as we searched for the best BEING HUMAN tribute videos.

You answered the call and wowed us with your scary-good Tribute Videos. Brilliant job!!

We’ve chosen our favorites and now it’s your turn to help us select a winner. Check out the nominees at http://www.bbcamerica.com/content/369/being-human-tribute-video-voting.jsp, and vote for your favorite by 10AM ET on Monday, September 13.

The top three will be presented to BEING HUMAN writer/creator Toby Whithouse, who will pick the contest winner – which will premiere on-air during the BH Season Finale Saturday, Sept. 18th at 9/8c, on BBC America.

And that’s not all! Be sure to countdown to the season finale with a marathon of the entire second season, starting at 2pm et. Trust us, you’ll be glad you did – because we’ll be airing snippets of ALL the contest entries throughout the marathon.

Seth Priebatsch: Building the game layer on top of the world

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http://www.ted.com By now, we’re used to letting Facebook and Twitter capture our social lives on the web — building a “social layer” on top of the real world. At TEDxBoston, Seth Priebatsch looks at the next layer in progress: the “game layer,” a pervasive net of behavior-steering game dynamics that will reshape education and commerce.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

September 2010 Apple Event: What To Expect

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In this video I go over what I am expecting to see this September for the Apple iPod event. I discuss the date I believe the event will be held as well as what new devices we are likely to see including the new iPod touch 4G, the Apple iTV as well as the next generation iPod nano and iPod Shuffle.

Did you hear the one about the Iranian-American? | Maz Jobrani

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http://www.ted.com A founding member of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour, standup comic Maz Jobrani riffs on the challenges and conflicts of being Iranian-American — “like, part of me thinks I should have a nuclear program; the other part thinks I can’t be trusted …”

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

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Jamil Abu-Wardeh: The Axis of Evil Middle East Comedy Tour

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http://www.ted.com Jamil Abu-Wardeh jump-started the comedy scene in the Arab world by creating the Axis of Evil Middle East Comedy Tour, which brought Middle Eastern standup comedians from the West to delighted audiences all over the Arab region. He’s found that, by respecting the “three B’s” (blue material, beliefs and “bolitics”), the Axis of Evil and other comics find plenty of cross-border laughs.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10