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- Marc Canter: The digital lifestyle aggregator
- Marc Canter, the founder and CEO of Broadband Mechanics, is known in the industry as a techno rabble rouser, with an operatic voice. In 1984, he co-founded MacroMind, which became Macromedia in 1991, and has continued to pioneer multimedia authoring and standards. Now at Broadband Mechanics he is merging his...
- Tags: Marc, podcast, social networking
- Blog posts 2006-05-23
- 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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- IT offshoring is exaggerated and the IT labor shortage is real
- IT offshoring is exaggerated and the IT labor shortage is realAs of September...... a sudden decrease in interest in hiring people is understandable. That's when many people decided to believe what they heard and the economy tanked.There's a question to what degree the banking crisis had to spread to...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Problem 4, Problem 2, Problem 1, STEM worker, job, information technology, IT Labor Shortage, IT Offshoring
- Discussion threads 2008-11-17
- Intel's Atom chips to fuel Mobile Internet Devices; Who's buying?
- Intel's Atom chips to fuel Mobile Internet Devices; Who's buying?Over analysing what a MID isThere seems to be so much consternation as to what a MID is and where it will fit. Frankly, a MID is where the smartphone is going - a MID is a smarter smartphone.As far...
- Tags: Smart phones, Network technology, Semiconductors, Handhelds, Cellular phones, chip, Intel Atom, mobile Internet device, Internet device, mobile, Intel Corp., Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-04-02
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Google forays into the heart of social networking
- TechCrunch is reporting that November 5 Google, in another fit of competitive expansion (check out Google's funding of a trans-Pacific undersea multi-terabit cable), plans to lift the veil on its answer to Facebook. It was foretold in the 'Tech Talk' video presentation by Google’s Ben Darnell to new Google...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, TechCrunch, Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-21
- Learning to share: lessons from the Data Sharing Summit
- 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 networking framework. This is his first report from the Data Sharing Summit in Richmond, CA, which aimed to address the issue of interoperability between social...
- Tags: Social Networking, Network, Data Sharing, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Shuck You! The Net is full of oysters and shuckers. Which are you?
- One message waiting in my inbox this week when I came home from vacation was from Broadband Mechanics founder Marc Canter who invited me to co-sign a Bill of Rights for the Social Web. I signed it. The general idea is that the social Web isn't about sites...
- Tags: Web, Facebook, Idea, Site, Zude, Framebusting, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-09-07
- (Photos: Computers of yesteryear)
- (Photos: Computers of yesteryear)Nice.. i have an IBM Powerstation 340 sittin on the shelf:)Great memoriesI have an Epson QX-10/16, CP/M OS that still works fine with all its programs including the original "Valdocs," and many others from Peach Software and Epson.I'm Disappointed....No Microsoft BoB? No Windows ME?? No...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Mainframes, Servers, E6B, photograph, PDP-11/73, disk, computer, mainframe
- Discussion threads 2007-08-20
- Do ordinary users care about data portability? And if not, should they? Four social networks respond.
- Social networks operate on the premise that it should be as easy as possible for a user to input their data into the system: user profiles, blog posts, media etc, but if they try to move their data someplace else or simply want to make a backup, more than often...
- Tags: network, web 2.0 crowd, Web 2.0, data portability, VoX, Web, portability, social networking
- Blog posts 2006-12-13
- More from the Web 2.0 Summit
- Yesterdays Web 2.0 Summit included a few highlights worth mentioning. Elinor Mills covered Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstroms chat with John Heileman, Skype plans to offer bloggers and others the ability to hold audio chats in the next version of it service. The next version of Skype will enable people to...
- Tags: General, IT Management, Personal Technology, Software Infrastructure, Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, web2con
- Blog posts 2006-11-08
- R.I.P. Browsers? No way!
- Tara Hunt's headline R.I.P. Browsers was accompanied with the hauntingly matching graphic on the left. What led Tara to declare the death of browsers - particularly as her partner Chris Messina until very recently was helping to make a next-generation browser called Flock?! Is that why he left Flock, because...
- Tags: Tara Hunt, Web browser
- Blog posts 2006-07-28
- Gnomedex: Canter's People Aggregator
- Marc Canter of Broadband Mechanics is rolling out his company's People Aggregator at Gnomedex tomorrow. People Aggregator is described on its Web site as follows: At the center of all great Live Web software will be one’s digital identity. Each end-user will control who has access...
- Tags: People Aggregator
- Blog posts 2006-06-29
- Ajax homepages market review
- Over the past year many new AJAX homepages, aka personalized start pages, have been introduced to the market. Microsoft and Google have offerings, as do a host of small startups. First I'll define what an AJAX homepage is, then I'll do a feature comparison between the leading...
- Tags: AJAX, Microsoft Windows Live, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-02-28
- An open Hailstorm? Windows Live coming together
- Marc Canter was in London for the etribes/mashup event yesterday and got to hear Sam Sethi of Vecosys/MSN talk about Microsoft's Live.com. Sam is a consultant for MSN UK and apparently had lots to say about Microsoft's Live platform yesterday. Marc wrote: ...
- Tags: open standard, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Marc
- Blog posts 2006-02-09
- Web 2.0: Looking for new ideas in search
- A panel entitled "Search by another name: New ideas in Search" didn't yield much in the way of new ideas or Web 2.0 breakthroughs. The panel highlighted search companies that are in the shadows of Google/Yahoo/MSN with more specialized engines. Michael Tanne introduced Wink, an early stage search engine based...
- Tags: PubSub, Wink, Michael Tanne
- Blog posts 2005-10-05
- Merger mania promises fewer, bigger telcos
- Merger mania promises fewer, bigger telcosAnd Higher Prices and Lower Customer ServiceHistory shows us this...Great just what the consumer needs less choice andless competition. Great! Oh and on an unrelated side note. I was getting my car inspected over the weekend and while waiting I picked up...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, merger, PayPal, telecommunications company, WiMAX
- Discussion threads 2005-02-07
- Senate panel embraces state VoIP taxes
- Senate panel embraces state VoIP taxesBend over folks, this won't hurt,,,, much.I am like a little bird and all I want is a small taste.....Stuff Is Way Out Of Bounds"Originally, the Sununu bill regulated only "connected" VoIP firms that link to the public telephone network. But the revised version permits...
- Tags: Telephony, Taxes, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Free trade, aol, U.S. Senate, VoIP, tax, phone
- Discussion threads 2004-07-22
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