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- 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
- 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
- A Bill of Rights for the social Web
- The social Web is in its early days, like the colonies that formed on the East coast of North America, grappling with a new and uncharted land and taxation without representation. We have fledging colonies of users growing by millions per month on separate islands, and a small minority leading...
- Tags: Web, User, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- marc canter to Ning: help social networks open-up
- TechCrunch reports that Ning, the web service that lets anybody start their own social network see my previous coverage, has a received a series C round of investment ($44 million) which values the company at $214 million. The additional funds will be used to build out Ning's infastructure, and help...
- Tags: Social Networks
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- marc canter: The digital lifestyle aggregator
- Marc Canter: The digital lifestyle aggregatorPA.comHello,are we talking about PeopleAggregator.com, the site which has not contact information whatsoever on its home page? And the site which rejects my email address bernd-06@eckenfels.net as invalid?How Web 0.0 is that?BerndRE: Marc Canter: The digital lifestyle aggregatorhmm thanks http://www.aypii.com/RE: Marc Canter: The digital...
- Tags: digital lifestyle aggregator, lifestyle aggregator, Marc Canter, Marc
- Discussion threads 2006-05-28
- 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
- The open source business process
- Open source is more than Linux, more than software. It is at heart a business process. You let people see what you’re doing. You use open APIs. You link to as many other business models as possible. This was seen in full last week, as Macromind founder Marc Canter (right,...
- Tags: open source business process, open source
- Blog posts 2005-07-24
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- 25-year-old BSD bug found--and fixed
- 25-year-old BSD bug found--and fixedSteve is the evil twin...The good Balmer twin, Marc, is out there doing productive things for society! ;)
- Tags: UNIX, BSD
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- CODA2Go and the economics of PaaS
- I had the opportunity to talk money last week with Jeremy Roche, CEO of CODA, the venerable UK-based business software vendor that has become the poster child for Salesforce.com's platform ambitions after the release at DreamForce Europe of its new on-demand financials application, built and delivered entirely on Force.com. Why...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Roche Holding AG, PaaS, On-demand, CODA2Go, Force.com, Coda, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- The Obama Party and the Googlization of politics
- Barack Obama is the Google of modern American politics. MyBarackObama and Google share strengths and, perhaps, weaknesses. I just described Google's problem with the ASP loophole. By supporting the loophole Google maintains its proprietary advantage but risks losing friends in the open source community....
- Tags: Movement, Google Inc., Barack Obama, Stoller, Open Source, Blogging, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- News to know: AMD; Oil and telecommuting; Verizon's EV-DO modem; Linux
- Notable headlines: Jason O'Grady: Review: Verizon UM150 USB EV-DO modem Gallery right. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition -- from Sun News.com: AMD revises server road map Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: How long can AMD...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Oil, Telecommuting, Sun Microsystems Inc., EVDO, Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Linux, Modems, WiMAX, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Federal Government, 64-Bit, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Components, Wireless, Government, Processors, Semiconductors
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Marc Benioff heralds Web 3.0 at DreamForce Europe
- Marc Benioff heralds Web 3.0 at DreamForce EuropeFrom all indicationsEverybody is searching still for Web 2.0. And they're trying to trot out Web 3.0 already?HDTV, Vista, and now Web 3.0. What will they think of next? Flying Monkeymobiles?
- Tags: Channel management, Web 3.0, Web, Dreamforce Europe, Marc Benioff
- Discussion threads 2008-05-07
- Marc Benioff heralds Web 3.0 at DreamForce Europe
- Salesforce.com has come to London today for its first DreamForce Europe event. There have been European customer and partner events in previous years, but this is the first event at true DreamForce scale — 2,500 attendees at the Barbican conference center in the heart of the City, London's financial district....
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Web, Marc Benioff, Web 3.0, PaaS, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Channel Management, Sales, Marketing, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Who uses Java SE 6 for Mac? (updated)
- Apple recently released Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1 (which adds Java SE 6 to your Mac) after receiving much criticism for omitting it when Leopard shipped: Discussion threads began to appear in Apple's support forum following the release of OS X Leopard on 26 October, and...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, JDK, Apple Inc., Java, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- Microsoft walks: Five reasons why it's a good move
- Microsoft walks: Five reasons why it's a good moveEC hating MIcrosoft?Nah, bureaucracies don't hate, they just use their system to grind people into compliance with their expectations. It's not their fault Microsoft chose to fight the system.Microsoft fails to embrace and extinguish Yahoo!.. now that's good news.Historic news?In the last...
- Tags: Mainframes, Financial accounting, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-03
- Record labels getting better at detecting P2P
- An article in Ars Technica points to a recent increase in copyright infringement notices being sent to universities. While the Record Industry Association of America RIAA claims that it has not changed its procedures, it did note that record labels are constantly improving their ability to detect peer-to-peer traffic...
- Tags: Ars Technica, P2P, University, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- SAP Business By Design likely to be delayed
- Sketchy reports coming out of Germany are saying that SAP's Business By Design is likely to be delayed. According to Handelsblatt: An SAP developer speaking to Handelsblatt claimed in German that ByDesign was suffering from performance issues and bugs that would delay general availability until perhaps the end of...
- Tags: SAP AG, Sales Force Management, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- 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
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