I gave a TEDx talk in 2009, which was very popular on YouTube back then, and it was chosen by the TED editors to be put as a ‚proper‘ TED talk on the TED.com website. It‘s quite interesting to see how they shortened the video even further down, and what they cut out - half sentences that I repeat for clarification, and so on, cutting out 40 seconds from the 4:39min (already edited) original:

YouTube version (4:39 mins): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCmsvXgxdDY

TED.com version (3:58 mins) https://www.ted.com/talks/fabian_hemmert_the_shape_shifting_...

Reputation-wise, it was life-changing (literally hundreds of emails coming in) and I am thankful for that. It was also challenging that this is something you can almost certainly never repeat (including the media attention, overnight ‚expertise’ and all the associated dopamine in your blood).

Today (well, in 2018), TED ‚features‘ TEDx YouTube talks on their site, but it doesn‘t seem to edit them like they did back then:

YouTube version of my 2018 TEDx talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LNjVmcVF68

TED.com version (identical): https://www.ted.com/talks/fabian_hemmert_protecting_our_crea...

Here‘s a 2011 ‚recap‘ of how the talk ended up on TED.com (a plead for blind optimism!):

https://tedx.tumblr.com/post/6981020824/how-ted-impacted-my-...

Ah, well. Good times!