Canter Resources on ZDNet

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Marc Canter: The master of multimedia speaks: In this Super Techies interview, larger-than-life techie Marc Canter talks with ZDNet's Editor in Chief Dan Farber about his career as a multimedia pioneer. Canter discusses his first job as a music programmer for video games; designing the multimedia authoring tools Shockwave and Director; and his current role as CEO...; Tags: Multimedia, Canter, Open Source, Personal Technology; Videos 2008-02-21
MyCreativeCommunity, a social network for screen writers: The first social networking site based on Marc Canters PeopleAggregator has gone live. MyCreativeCommunity is a network for creative types working in the television and film industries, which Canter says was built simply by "skinning the UI (of PeopleAggregator) and adding some new modules". PeopleAggregator isnt the only "MySpace in...; Tags: Canter, social networking, network, Social Networks, PeopleAggregator; Blog posts 2006-12-07
Structured blogging initiative taking off: At the Syndicate 2005 conference, a few dozen Web companies--including PubSub, Bloglines, Feedster, Meetup, Newsgator, Rojo, Sxip, CommerceNet and Broadband Mechanics--gathered behind a structured blogging initiative, using microformats and other open standards. "We need to make sure that all new formats, such as events, listings, reviews, audio and video...; Tags: Broadband Mechanics, blogging, Canter; Blog posts 2005-12-13

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Guest post: Introducing the Open Data Definition: This is a guest post by Ben Werdmuller who is the CTO of Curverider and one of the leads behind the Elgg open source social application engine. The Open Data Definition is a new format for the import and export of data from within social applications....; Tags: Software, Format, Data, Open Data Definition, Data Portability, Service Closure, Chances, Semantic Web Community, RDF Parser, RDF, Semantic Web, XML, RSS, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2008-04-28
Swarming around in HiveLive: Does anyone need another enterprise collaboration tool for helping get closer to the customer? How about if you had a collection of tools in one space that are people centric rather than task or functionally bound? This is the set-up for looking at HiveLive, a vendor...; Tags: Community, Swarming, HiveLive, Productivity, Groupware, Blogging, Wiki, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-03-31

OpenSocial should be renamed "OpenGadgets": OpenSocial should be renamed "OpenGadgets"Excellent analysisGreat analysis Steve! I am giving a talk at Toronto's FacebookCamp on OpenSocial vs. Facebook, so this will definitely help. As you suggested, Google announced their platform too early. But in a way, it was also an appropriate time to release considering that Friendster, Hi5,...; Tags: Google OpenSocial, Facebook, Marc Canter; Discussion threads 2008-02-01
OpenSocial should be renamed "OpenGadgets": As it stands, the Google-led OpenSocial has very little, if anything, to do with data portability. That's the view of Marc Canter, a long time advocate of open standards and data portability, and one in which I'm inclined to agree. It seems that almost everybody got a little carried away...; Tags: Facebook, Network, Google OpenSocial, Marc Canter, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2008-01-31
Docstoc for law school (a.k.a. today's young whippersnappers don't know how good they have it!): My goodness. Check out the impressive array of law school outlines and other law school and bar exam resources being amassed at Docstoc. Aside from being incredibly useful, my favorite thing about this service is its built in Creative Commons licensing. A perfect...; Tags: Law School, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Denise Howell; Blog posts 2008-01-30
CES: On the Bloghaus Bus to Las Vegas: I'm in Las Vegas for CES for most of this week. Here is a flavor of what it was like to be on the Podtech Bloghaus bus along with top bloggers such as Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Luic Le Meur, Jeremy Toeman, Robert McLaws, plus Valerie Cunningham and many more....; Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, CEO, Monster Cable, Blogging, Internet, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-01-06
On the road to CES: I'm on the endless BlogHaus media bus ride from Silicon Valley to CES in Las Vegas, organized by PodTech and Valerie Cunningham. We left Mountain View just after 1:00 PM PST and we'll arrive at around 2:00 AM (we took a splendid dinner break at the Harris Ranch restaurant in...; Tags: Tom Foremski, Consumer Electronics Show, Corporate Governance, Blogging, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Internet, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2008-01-05
Facebook's lack of data portability raises as many questions as provides answers: Yesterday I reported on Robert Scoble's attempts to scrape data from his Facebook account for import to another social networking service. That data turned out to be names, email addresses and date of birth. The social network was Plaxo Pulse. From Scoble's blog: What does it...; Tags: Plaxo Inc., Facebook, Data, E-mail Address, Robert Scoble, E-mail, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2008-01-04
Facebook to Scoble: all your data belong to us.: Intentionally or unintentionally, celebrity blogger Robert Scoble has put himself right at the center of the data portability issue, and at the same time is helping to expose the fascicle nature of Facebook's claims of openness. Scoble is one of Facebook's most heavy users, both in terms...; Tags: Facebook, Robert Scoble, Data Portability, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2008-01-03
Social networking prediction for 2008: One of the pied-pipers of social networking is making some predictions about where the most talked about technology of 2007 is heading in the new year. In his blog post, Marc Canter proclaimed, "All software is about people and now all software will have social features in it." ...; Tags: Network, Marc Canter, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-12-31
Checking the pulse of enterprise social computing: At todays' LeWeb 3, Marc Canter asked a panel drawn from Google, Netvibes, Plum and the European Energy Forum whether we're ready for radical change in the context of bringing the social to software. In his pre-session blog post, Marc said: The paradigm of social networking works great for...; Tags: Social Computing, Social Networking, Open Source, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2007-12-11
LeWeb3: innovation in Paris: Tomorrow sees the start of LeWeb3, the largest innovation conference of its kind held in Europe. Devised by Loic LeMeur and now in its fourth year, LeWeb3 has attracted 1,793 registrants (at the last count). Unlike trade shows, LeWeb3 keeps its agenda close to its attendees'...; Tags: Innovation, Enterprise 2.0, Session, JP, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2007-12-10
Busy weekend: Kindle and Facebook beatings: Robert Scoble spent the last week giving his new Amazon Kindle ebook reader a test drive, reading a couple of books and declaring the progeny of Jeff Bezos a failure. He thinks the usability and user interface suck and it lack features such as a touch screen, social networking and...; Tags: Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-11-25
Tim Berners-Lee: From World Wide Web to Giant Global Graph: Updated: On this Thanksgiving morning in the U.S., the Facebook Beacon storm continues to rage (Techmeme). It's simply growing pains for the social graph. In fact, the social graph (which Mark Zuckerberg defines as the network of connections between people) reached a new stage of legitimacy or recognition today with...; Tags: Social Networking, Web, Graph, Tim Berners-Lee, Site, WWW, FOAF, Semantic Web, Channel Management, RDF, Internet, Marketing, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-11-22
Latest 'The Group' podcast delves into Google Android, Yahoo's China syndrome, and Facebook gestures (again): Steve Gillmor's The Gang debuts its second coming for the second time. There's always good tibits and chunky nuggets in these roundtable gab-fests. As usual the topics straddle places more weight on the Web 2.0 side than the IT side, but I'm working on it. ...; Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Podcast, Yahoo! Inc., Steve, Web 2.0, Podcasts, Internet, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2007-11-16
Facebook Ads: Monetizing the social graph and social graft: The blogosphere is loaded up with all flavors of Facebook Ads analysis, and much handwringing over the notion of users expressing their enthusiasm for Diet Coke or "American Gangster" on their Facebook page and Coca-Cola or Universal Pictures placing ads in the newsfeed as the items are spooled to their...; Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Advertisement, Blogosphere, MySpace, Facebook Ads, Cluetrain, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-11-07
OpenSocial unleashed into the wild: Now that OpenSocial has been partially release into the wild, the effects on the ecosystem are being felt. TechCrunch reported on a hack of an application on Plaxo's OpenSocial-compliant host. Plaxo shut down the application. Plaxo's chief platform architect told Mike Arrington the OpenSocial platform is a work in progress...; Tags: Plaxo Inc., Google OpenSocial, Social Networking, Authentication/Encryption, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Security, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-11-03