FORA.tv – Smart Video Content for Smart Audiences

FORA.tv is a cool video website that targets a particular niche: Smart audiences. This is what FORA.tv has to say about itself:

FORA.tv helps intelligent, engaged audiences get smart. Our users find, enjoy, and share videos about the people, issues, and ideas changing the world.

We gather the web’s largest collection of unmediated video drawn from live events, lectures, and debates going on all the time at the world’s top universities, think tanks and conferences. We present this provocative, big-idea content for anyone to watch, interact with, and share – when, where, and how they want.

You’ll find intelligent videos about the economy, environment, politics, science, technology, and culture. Many of today’s big issues are gathered into series. A sampling:

• The Universe of Neil DeGrasse Tyson, bestselling author and director of the Hayden Planetarium, presents a series on outer space (black holes, Pluto, etc.).
• Bold Ideas, New Fuels, and Big Energy Needs, a series about the benefits and challenges of today’s energy sources.
• Now Playing: Visionary Actors, Directors, and Executives, an up-close and very personal series about some of the film industry’s biggest players.
• Is Capitalism Dead? A series that addresses many longheld tenets that are now being questioned and even overturned. Do the fundamentals of capitalism ensure its protection or its destruction?

Viewers have the ability to rate and comment on video content. Some content generates a fair amount of comment, contributing more intellectual stimulation. Click on the tabs below each video for further information, including presenter’s bio, transcript (if any), and related links. The video interface makes it easy to email a video, post to social networking sites, or capture embed code; just click on the Share button.

FORA.tv was recently named one of 50 Best Websites by Time.com/. Check out the àlaBuzz video page to view an interview with Blaise Zerega, CEO and President of FORA.tv/.

FORA.tv was founded in 2005 and is funded by a select group of investors including William R. Hearst III and Adobe Ventures.

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