The last hour of 2008. The time on this planet for us is a gift. Time is a gift to ourself. When we consider time as a gift our whole outlook towards life shifts. Like every year 2008 also has offered you many gifts. With it's thorns it has made you strong, with its petals it has given u joy...

TRAILER - ICANN MEXICO 2009 - The 34th International Public ICANN Meeting will take place from 1st to 6th March 2009 at the Hotel Sheraton Centro Historico

Australian coasts Each centimetre of sea-level rise will lead to increasing impacts on low-lying coastal land. Modelling predicts the inundation would cause sandy beaches on the Australian coastline to recede by the order of 100 times the vertical sea-level rise. For example, if the sea level rises by a metre, the coastal beaches could retreat by about 100 metres unless some preventative action is taken. Given that about 85 per cent of Australia's population lives within an hour's drive of the coast, this is particularly relevant.

A demo of Myngle, the worldwide languages marketplace, where teachers and students from all over the world can mingle and learn a new language, having fun!

Cisco Small Business video

Watch as Jeff Howe, author of Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business, explains how online communities are changing the way many companies do business.

P-Plus was designed to register labour and production data in a market garden or glasshouse business. P-Plus allows you and your workers to register labour, production and observational data on one of the terminals in the workplace. These data can, for instance, be used to generate reports on level of production in certain aisles, the progress of certain activities, worker productivity and any pests or diseases which your workers have observed. All of the data entered on the terminals are instantly processed by the central computer and can be accessed straightaway, enabling you to take quick and informed decisions.

With stunning photos and stories, National Geographic Explorer Wade Davis celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the world's indigenous cultures, which are disappearing from the planet at an alarming rate.

In this brand-new slideshow (premiering on TED.com), Al Gore presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists recently predicted. He challenges us to act.

As the main policy-making body of ICANN, the GNSO Council and it's work define much of ICANN's outpost. It's chair, Avri Doria, explains what happened at it's four-hour public session why the Council makes it's decisions.

In an emotionally charged talk, MacArthur-winning activist Majora Carter details her fight for environmental justice in the South Bronx -- and shows how minority neighborhoods suffer most from flawed urban policy.

Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: she had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions -- motion, speech, self-awareness –- shut down one by one. An astonishing story.