June Cohen
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June Cohen is Executive Producer of TED Media for the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Conference. She led the effort to bring the conference online, launching the TED Blog in 2005, the podcast series TEDTalks in 2006, the redesigned TED.com in 2007, and the TED Open Translation Project in 2009. Cohen joined the TED staff in 2005. She co-hosts the conference with TED curator Chris Anderson.[citation needed]
TED.com has won numerous awards, including seven Webby Awards, and the Communication Arts 2008 Interactive Award for Information Design.[citation needed] According to announcements made at the TED Conference in February 2010, TEDTalks were watched 250 million times in the first 3½ years they were available. Some of the talks, like those by Hans Rosling, Ken Robinson and Jill Bolte Taylor have become viral hits.[better source needed]
From 1994 to 2000, Cohen worked for HotWired, the first commercial web magazine. She was part of the team that launched the site in 1994. She wrote the Net Surf blog from 1994 to 1996. In 1996 she launched Webmonkey, the how-to site for web developers. In 1997, she led the widely publicized launch of "HotWired 4.0," which featured extensive use of JavaScript and "dynamic HTML." From 1997 to 2000, she was HotWired's Vice President of Content.
Cohen was an early innovator in new media.[who?] In 1991, she led a team at Stanford University that developed one of the world's first multimedia magazines, called "Proteus".[citation needed] It was built in HyperCard, and used newly released QuickTime to integrate video. It was made available over the campus computer network, as a supplement to the campus newspaper, and was phased out after the advent of the web.
Cohen is a graduate of Stanford University, and was Editor-in-Chief of The Stanford Daily from 1991 to 1992.[citation needed]
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The New York Times"Giving Away Information, but Increasing Revenue" By BOB TEDESCHI, April 16, 2007
