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Making Europe's consumers safer More information: http://ec.europa.eu./avservices/video/video_prod_en.cfm?type=detail&prodid=898 The RAPEX rapid alert system for dangerous consumer products is proving a success throughout Europe. The system is intended to address risks to health and safety through the rapid exchange of information between EU countries. When a non-food product is found to be dangerous, the national authorities notify the commission which can then either ban the product or let it be sold on certain conditions. In April, the EU revealed the results of the 2006 RAPEX report, which highlights a sharp rise in the number of notifications resulting in the withdrawal from the market of many products. Tags: eutube European Commission Union consumers Communication EbS Audiovisual Europe by Satellite RAPEX EU UE |
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Geppeto: Consumer's Approach to Programming Google Tech Talks November 10, 2008 ABSTRACT Contemporary society is experiencing a steady stream of new electronic gadgets, software products, and web applications. In this flood of functionality, users have adapted to rely less on manuals (if they are present at all) and shift their learning to trial and error, common paradigms, and experimentation. To accommodate this style of use -- or perhaps driving this behavior - developers have successfully abstracted much of the technological complexity and transformed it into intuitive user interfaces often avoiding the need for reading lengthy manuals and formal training. Is it possible to adopt the same trial-and-error experimentation habit not only for using gadgets, but also for application development? We claim that intuitive aggregation and combination of software gadgets makes this possible. In this talk, we will show the use of current technology in building a consumer oriented development tool appropriate for individuals not formally trained in programming. We demonstrate that the complexity of existing system and scripting languages i.e.; syntax, semantics, control and data flow, data structures, data types, and programming components can be successfully replaced with analogies intuitively accessible to a much wider consumer population based exclusively on their use and understanding of user interfaces in popular web applications. We present a demo of Geppeto -- a consumer tool for gadget-based application development. Composing gadgets with Geppeto does not require programming experience or reading of convoluted manuals. The presented research is sponsored by Google Inc. and the Croatian Ministry of Science. Speaker: Sinisa Srbljic Professor Sinisa Srbljic, Ph.D., is currently a professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, and the project leader of the Geppeto project. His career also spans Silicon Valley where he worked on large-scale distributed systems at AT Labs. He was visiting the University of Toronto, where he worked on the NUMAchine multiprocessor project, and the University of California, Irvine. His research interests include Web computing, gadget composition, and consumer programming. In teaching, he is involved in the theory of computing, programming language translation, service-oriented computing, and network middleware systems. Speaker: Marin Silic Marin Silic, B.Sc., is currently a computer science Ph.D. candidate and research assistant at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb. He works on web architectures for composing gadgets as a part of the Geppeto project. As a Google intern in the Spreadsheets group he developed a one-second load application for Google Spreadsheets. Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
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Europe wants well-informed consumers More information: http://ec.europa.eu./avservices/video/video_prod_en.cfm?type=detail&prodid=525 http://www.ec.europa.eu/news/environment/070115_1_en.htm With so many new products and brands and increasingly sophisticated financial services, European consumers are having a hard time getting their bearings. They are not comfortable with the idea of buying something in another country of the European Union: only one out of five people have done so over the past twelve months. And yet, the EU single market offers many possibilities for competition and for buying at a lower price. Tags: eutube European Commission Competition Price Communication EbS Audiovisual Europe by Satellite consumers information EU |
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Surplus - Terrorized into Being Consumers (1of10) In case there's still someone out there who hasn't seen this yet. With subtitles in English. Tags: capitalism consumerism green anarchy anarchism primitivism zerzan castro cuba socialism berlusconi genova g8 shopping |
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Future Consumers, Lifestyles and Online Communities - impact of new technology, communications, wireless networking on business and personal life. Patrick Dixon - Futurist / Futurologist conference keynote speaker Future of Telecom and Consumers. Belgacom client event - 700 CEOs and CIOs by conference keynote speaker Dr Patrick Dixon. Future of communications, marketing, management, leadership, virtual teams and virtual organisations. Virtual meetings and distance learning. Future bandwidth, video streaming demand, convergence and divergence of technology. Future innovations in communication. Strategy for emerging markets and developed markets.Banks will become phone companies and telecom companies will become banks. Mobile payment systems, micropayments, mobile phone credit card transactions and loans.All innovation is divergent - doing things different and better. But most companies focus on convergence on price, quality, features.image, branding, winning customers, online marketing and building trust. Consumer changes, preferences and lifestyles. Videoconferencing and virtual teams. Winning the war for talent - motivation and leadership styles. Tags: telecom marketing markets consumers customers clients communications management mobile phones leadership global teams business strategy innovation technology web 2.0 |
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Helping Consumers Buy Products that Reflect their Values; How Google's Mobile... Google Tech Talks February, 8 2008 ABSTRACT Internet searching and advertising increasingly plays a role in consumer decisions and purchases, yet pertinent information for making value-judgments is currently awkward to ferret out and certainly not universally accessible or useful. There is rarely a feedback loop aligning vendor or manufacturer's environmental, social or governance policies with a shopper's values, so shoppers, over time, rarely cause industries to change their behavior. There needs to be a way for shoppers to aim their purchasing power at achieving social values of highest regional priority. There needs to be a way to accumulate and redeem "social values rewards". What's missing is timely and impactful analysis of a candidate purchases' impact on the Shopper's family, region and planet (expressed according to their values), so that the purchaser can more easily make informed purchasing decisions. With some modifications to Google ads and Google product search, Google could solidify the feedback loop and help consumers, by their actions, build a greener and better world. Speaker: Bruce Cahan Bruce B. Cahan, President Urban Logic, Inc. (a nonprofit organization) Email: bcahan@urbanlogic.org Bruce Cahan is an Ashoka Fellow, a social entrepreneur, a non-residential fellow of Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, a lawyer, and a banker. In 1989, a steam pipe exploded outside his apartment building, spraying the neighborhood with 220 pounds of asbestos wrapping in an 18-story geyser of steam for several hours. After that, Bruce foresaw New York City's need for geospatial preparedness, and founded Urban Logic, a New York nonprofit, to make America's cities safer and sustainable. Bruce convinced New York to fund and build a multi-agency GIS basemap. As a bond lawyer, he found $20+ million in the City's capital budget to pay for its GIS utility. NYC's basemap was completed just 6 months before the tragic events of September 11th, 2001, and aided in coordinated response and recovery. In the months after September 11th, Bruce joined others at the City's Command Center to organize and staff its Emergency Mapping and Data Center. His team supplied the Mayor's Office, Fire, Police, EMS, military, public health, environment, news and other groups with up-to-date maps of rapidly changing conditions at Ground Zero and throughout Manhattan. Bruce was the catalyst for deploying OpenGIS' SensorWeb project to monitor environmental conditions citywide, and other innovations. Taking 9/11's lessons, Bruce designed the federal OMB's I-Team Initiative to strategically plan and implement spatial readiness across 49 states. Bruce's knowledge of finance, law and organizational barriers to spatial awareness and urban innovation comes from researching and writing major studies for the federal government, including . Financing the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (FGDC 2000) . Aligning Investments in Environmental Monitoring and Management Information Systems (EPA 2002) . The Value Proposition for GeoSpatial One Stop (OMB 2004) . A Regional Portfolio Investor's Toolkit (USGS 2006) In 2005, Bruce moved to Silicon Valley to organize two market-driven mechanisms that support urban sustainability. The first he calls the Means MeterTM, a tool for socially-purposeful consumers to buy products that reflect their values. The second is a bank that amplifies the sustainable impacts of Means MeterTM consumers and their vendors. The bank will reward choices that grow Sustainable ResiliencyTM. Bruce's bank would serve consumers, businesses, NGOs and governments. The bank would offer credit, insurance, investment and merchant banking services, and scale pricing and interest rates based on each customer's impact on Sustainable ResiliencyTM. Bruce graduated from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Temple Law School. Bruce practiced law for 10 years with Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York, where he specialized in structuring and negotiating complex corporate, bond, creditor's rights and real estate finance and ot... Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
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Creators vs. Consumers in Second Life - Philip Rosedale Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=557 Linden Lab founder and CEO Philip Rosedale discusses the unique creative opportunities offered to users of the online virtual world "Second Life." ----- Second Life: What Do We Learn If We Digitize EVERYTHING? What is real life coming to owe digital life? After a couple years in the flat part of exponential growth, the steep part is now arriving for the massive multi-player online world construction kit called "Second Life." With 1.7 million accounts, membership in "Second Life" is growing by 20,000 per day. The current doubling rate of "residents" is 7 months, still shortening, which means the growth is (for now) hyperexponential. For this talk the founder and CEO of "Second Life," Philip Rosedale, tried something new for him - a simultaneous demo and talk. His online avatar, "Philip Linden," was on the screen showing things while the in-theater Philip Rosedale was conjecturing about what it all means. "This is a game of 'Can I interest you more in what I'm saying than what's going on on the screen?'" He showed how new arrivals go through the "gateway" experience of creating their own onscreen avatar, explaining that because intense creativity is so cheap, easy, and experimental, the online personas become strongly held. "You can have multiple avatars in 'Second Life,' but the overall average is 1.25 avatars per person." The median age of users is 31, and the oldest users spend the most time in the world (over 80 hours per week for 10 percent of the residents). - The Long Now Foundation Tags: SL phillip linden lab labs lindens online user demo objects island create virtual avatar social creative fora tv fora.tv |
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Convergence and Divergence - future technology and consumers, innovation, product design, new technology, communications, phones and computer products. Conference keynote speaker. http://www.globalchange.com All innovation is divergent - doing things different and better. But most companies focus on convergence on price, quality, features. Future trends lecture by Dr Patrick Dixon, author Futurewise, for MTN global leadership event Tags: convergence divergence technology features mobile phones computers innovation design products customers consumers business economics social science media communications computer engineering |
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Women consumers rule - female customer trends http://www.globalchange.com Most older consumers are women and most online sales are to women. Female consumers as pressure group and major economic force. Women and online banking. Why women own most of America and most of the UK -- living longer than men and wealth in pension funds and property. Feminisation of society, culture and business, workplace, work-life balance and emotional intelligence. Winning the war for female talent. Feminization of products and services. Niche marketing and advertising campaigns targeting women. Conference keynote speaker and Futurist Dr Patrick Dixon. Tags: women female customers clients consumers feminisation feminization workplace workforce leaders leadership marketing business communications economics health humanities media social science visual arts performing |
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Surplus: Terrorized into being consumers Why is the lifestyle of consumerism a source of such rage today? How come the privilege of buying goods does not automatically lead to happiness? Why all this emptiness despite our wealth? Erik Gandini's approach through Surplus is to portray this issue from an emotional rather than a factual perspective. Shot in the US, India, China, Italy, Sweden, Hungary, Canada and Cuba during three years. Surplus is the result of a complicated editing process by talented music composer/editor/percussionist Johan Söderberg. George W Bush's famous "shopping-speech" calling for a war against terrorism that deters the nation from the fear of consumption. Castro responding with hymns to the anti-consumerist, advertising-free island of Cuba. Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer preaching that the computer will give us peace on earth "bringing people together" while Adbuster Kalle Lasn warns that advertising pollutes us mentally, that over-consumption is unsustainable and that we are running out of oil. Surplus main man is John Zerzan, controversial philosopher whose call for PROPERTY DAMAGE has inspired many to take to the streets. "That is not violence. Sitting there doing dope and watching MTV . Then you go and get a job. Just schlep along. To me that is violence," says Zerzan. "We are terrorized into being consumers." In November 2003 Surplus was awarded with the most prestigious prize a Documentary can get, The Silver Wolf at Amsterdam's IDFA, and has spread widely around the globe since then. "... This film about consumerism totally consumed us. It used the language of music video, propaganda and commercial advertising as a response to the forces of globalisation. It fights fire with fire. The questions it raises are ultimately more important than any answers it might suggest. And we believe audiences can only profit from the debate that will ensue. For its originality, sense of humour, irony, forcefulness and visual virtuosity, the Silver Wolf Award goes to SURPLUS." The Jury of the International Documentary Filmfestival in Amsterdam, Nov.2003. "...juxtaposes images and music with great rythm and technical perfection" Il Manifesto "Surplus is an open declaration of war on terror" Adbusters Magazine Surplus was recently awarded with two major international Environmental film awards, FICA in Brazil and ECOCINEMA in Greece "The Cora Coralina prize and trophy, for the greatest of all the productions presented goes to"Surplus",..... for the creative way in which it denounces the current standards of production and consumption, especially in rich countries, as extremely harmful to the environment and to interpersonal relations. The issue, which justified an inspired and surprising editing work, is absent in the media, badly explored in literature, and of fundamental importance for the understanding of the causes of the civilization dilemma that affects everyone in our days." In October 2004 Surplus was awarded with two Special Mentions at Environmental Film Festival of Torino, the Jury statement is: "Un film che, partendo dai concetti anticonsumistici di un personaggio-contro, sviluppa in maniera dinamica, sarcastica e modernamente aggressiva i pericoli immanenti di un modo di esistere che tutti ci riguarda." surplus Produced by Atmo for SVT 2003 with the support of Swedish Film Institute and Nordic Film and TV- Fond. Directed and produced by Erik Gandini Lenght 52 min. Shot on Super 16mm and DV-CAM Languages English 80%, Spanish 10%, Swedish 10% Photographers Carl Nilsson-Lukas Eisenhauer Edited by Johan Söderberg Music Mark O' Sullivan -The Mighty Quark/Gotan Project/Tosca/David Österberg/Johan Söderberg Sound Dolby SR Festival distribution Swedish Film Institute. Contact: Sara Yamashita Ruster at saru@sfi.se TV distribution ATMO Sales. Contact: Kristina Åberg at kristina@atmo.se Tags: surplus erik gandini atmo documentary consumerism john zerzan capitalism terrorism |
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1 billion new consumers - keynote speaker Patrick Dixon http://www.globalchange.com Future of new customers - multimedia presentation on marketing for clients of Siemens. Full presentation can be found on Google video on future of online marketing, niche marketing, direct marketing campaigns. Using YouTube for marketing. New consumer patterns. Selling to customers more effectively, reaching new target audiences. Unique selling proposition and using new technology to tell your story. How marketing directors can strengthen brands, corporate image and product loyalty. Patrick Dixon is one of the world's leading keynote speakers. He has addressed audiences in 48 countries. His globalchange.com website has had 10 million unique visitors, author 12 books, 250,000 have watched his videos online. Tags: future marketing consumers emerging economies global customers patrick dixon futurist |
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Payday Loan Centers-Consumers Beware! Harold Cameron, Chief of Helping People and Consumer Advocate for HaroldSays has created this consumer video tips to educate them about payday loan centers and the excessive interest that they charge. There is a "Better Choice" for a loan available at participating credit unions in PA. Other programs might be available in your state. Also, Harold shares about a consumer he helped receive his Social Security Disability Insurance. At HaroldSays Consumers Can Fight Back And Win! Tags: payday loans social security disability credit union money humor funny consumer advocacy |
User: mdegg |
The Consumers Just another day in the Consumer household. As a kid growing up, my parents and I huddled around the TV. Although we were feet apart, in reality we were miles away. Tags: the consumers aafilmfest animated |
User: eutube |
Protecting European Consumers The basic aim of consumer protection policy in the EU is to inform and empower consumers, ensuring they are equally well-protected across the 27 EU Member States with the European Commission working in synergy with the National Authorities. EU rules curb abusive practices, harmonize legislation in the financial services and monitor product safety (via the RAPEX alert system). In addition the European Consumer Centres (ECCs) provide information and support in case of redress to EU citizens. Download: http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/video/video_prod_en.cfm?type=detail&prodid=5331&src=1 Tags: EUtube EU Consumer rights Unfair Commercial Practices product safety cross-border purchases RAPEX ECC Meglena Kuneva |
User: TheHealthRanger |
Organic Consumers Assc. reveals 1,4-Dioxane chemicals - ONE This is part one of an exclusive interview between Ronnie Cummins of the Organic Consumers Association and Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, of NaturalNews.com. In this interview, Cummins reveals the lab results that show 47 out of 100 "natural" or "organic" personal care products to be contaminated with a cancer-causing chemical 1,4-dioxane. Tags: organic consumers Health Ranger NaturalNews dioxane shampoo personal care products safety |
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Cel Phone or PC? IBM: Consumers Open to New Forms of Digital Advertising Cel Phone or PC? IBM: Consumers Open to New Forms of Digital Advertising An IBM study found that as consumers move further towards PC and mobile phone based video viewing, they are more open to new forms advertising. The study found that large scale adoption and usage of digital content services accessed via the PC and mobile phone, with ad-supported models (versus consumer-paid) is preferred almost three to one by respondents globally. The survey sought the opinion of 2,800 people, from Australia, Germany, India, Japan, the U.K. and the U.S. Tags: Cel Phone or PC? IBM: Consumers Open to New Forms of Digital Advertising |
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Avenging Poor Yorick-Basket Case & Consumers World 12/08/07 Avenging Poor Yorick playing Basket Case (Green Day Cover) and Consumers World at Simply Romantic on 12/08/07 Carl Romines (Tybalt)- Vocals/ Guitar Peter Washington (Paris)- Lead Guitar Kyle Duncan (Caliban)- Drums Marshal Willson (Quince)- Keys Hope you enjoy :D! Tags: Kyle Carl Marshall Peter Avenging Poor Yorick Rock Powerpop Consumers World Cover Basket Case Green Day Shakespear |
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Organic Consumers Assc. reveals 1,4-Dioxane chemicals - TWO This is part two of an exclusive interview between Ronnie Cummins of the Organic Consumers Association and Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, of NaturalNews.com. In this interview, Cummins reveals the lab results that show 47 out of 100 "natural" or "organic" personal care products to be contaminated with a cancer-causing chemical 1,4-dioxane. Tags: organic consumers,Health Ranger,NaturalNews,dioxane,shampoo,personal care products,safety,natural,soap |
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Dodge EV and Consumers at 'Cars n Coffee' Dodge EV and Consumers at 'Cars n Coffee' Tags: Dodge EV Consumers Cars Coffee coupe sportscar sports car electric vehicle fast quick drive driving fun |
User: pjvdixon |
Customer focus. Why consumers won't wait. Marketing, management of key clients. Improving customer service and response times in call centres and online sales. Conference keynote speaker http://www.globalchange.com People do crazy things when in a hurry - the future is about emotion, not about technology. Futurist Dr Patrick Dixon lecture on future of telecom, mobile phones, marketing, management and motivation. Executives, consumers, shareholders, clients, workers all act irrationally, with emotion. Understand consumer choices. Win team loyalty and war for talent. Irrational and illogical customer decisions. Customer focus key to business growth, retention, loyalty and commitment to your brand. Tags: consumers customers marketing future trends research speed choice behaviour behavior service performance patrick dixon community video blog advice |
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Peugeot 407 Crash Test On Consumers NEW! Not a Commercial ! Peugeot 407 Crash Test On Consumers. Experience what I have been through with the Peugeot 407. Tags: Peugeot 407 crash test commercial Failure |
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Consumers Wait For Blue Hippo Refunds A settlement forced a Maryland-based company to pay restitution on the computers and plasma TVs they sold to people with poor or no credit, but consumers are still waiting for their money. Tags: WBAL Baltimore Blue Hippo customers consumer complaint attorney general refund settlement |
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Urban consumers vie for premium brands This is the new young consumer with money to spend on being trendy. That is why mid-level premium brands like French Connection that has been around for 20 years in Europe is now in India. Brands like Calvin Klein, Tommy Hillfiger and Esprit are also making their presence felt. While ultra luxury brands are not getting a huge response for clothes, these brands which charge Rs 2,000-Rs 3,000 for a top are now getting their share of consumer's pockets. Tags: urban consumer brands |
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Neelie Kroes: consumers need power to take on cartels Related article: http://www.eux.tv/article.aspx?articleId=20067 Neelie Kroes, Europe's top antitrust official, addresses a press conference in Brussels to explain proposals to empower European consumers so that they can claim damages from cartels. Tags: EUX EUX.TV Neelie Kroes Antitrust Article 80 81 European Union Consumers class action Commission cartels cartel EU Euro |