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It used to be 800 people getting together once a year; now it’s about a million people a day watching TED Talks online. When we first put up a few of the talks as an experiment, we got such impassioned responses that we decided to flip the organization on its head and think of ourselves not so much as a conference but as “ideas worth spreading,” building a big website around it. The conference is still the engine, but the website is the amplifier that takes the ideas to the world.

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The TED brand has expanded in a lot of ways, but maybe most notably through TEDx conferences. This can be a little confusing, so here’s the deal:

There’s still one annual TED conference, a week-long event in Vancouver, and it’s run by the TED staff. A TEDx conference is independently run,

but it has to follow a set of guidelines laid out by TED so that it fits with the overall brand. There are now over 1,500 annual TEDx events that

happen in over 130 countries, some of them major, high-profile conferences;

others tiny and little-known.The best TEDx talks are posted on TED.com, alongside the talks that happen at the main conference in Vancouver.

刚开始差不多有800人去参加，现在大约有100w人在网上看TED。

我们刚开始找出一些TED演讲做实验，得到了强烈的反响，我们就提示TED不要把它当作会议，而是当作传播好想法的媒介，并用网站推广它。会议还是“发动机”，网站只是传播好想法的“放大器”。

TED被以各种方式传播，尤其是一些独立组织的TEDx活动。TEDx是什么呢：TED每年还是会在温哥华举行一周，TEDx是独立运行的，但是它还是要遵循TED的规则才能被称为TED。现在TEDx遍及130个国家，每年举行1500多场，一些是专业，知名度高的，一些是小型的。最大的TEDx也被发布在TED.com上而且位于温哥华TED会议中心旁边。

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