Marc Canter

Current

• CEO - Chairman at Broadband Mechanics
• Early Adopter at OpenID Community ! :)
• Chairman, CEO - Products, Sales, Engineering at Broadband Mechanics

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Past

• Owner - idea guy - talk show host at Canter Technology
• Mac developer at the Macintosh Industry
• CEO at Canter Technology

• Hustler at Macworld Expo
• Chairman - CEO - founder at Macromedia
• bottlewasher at MacroMind
• Sound Engineer - Videogame developer at Bally-Midway
• Laser Light Show tool programmer at Science Faction
• NAPLIPS (videotext) game programmer at Time-Warner

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Education

• Oberlin College

Recommended

8 people have recommended Marc

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Blog
• My Company
• My Portfolio

Marc Canter’s Summary

We're bringing social to software. Yes we can provide stand alone social networks, but we're also 'upgrading' ANY software product or service and bringing social web features to that existing software.

We're working toward bringing open standards to the social networking world. In other words - opening up social networking.

I started a company called MacroMind - which became Macromedia.

I'm a 25 year vet of the software business. Google me. My blog is: http://marc.blogs.it.

Marc Canter’s Specialties:

Toolsmith, standards builder, open advocate, cross-platform maven, father of multimedia, dad.

Marc Canter’s Experience

• CEO - Chairman

  Broadband Mechanics

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  January 2005 — Present (3 years 7 months)

  I'm the product guy and head sales guy and also marketing and CTO

• Early Adopter

  OpenID Community ! :)

  (Computer Software industry)

  2004 — Present (4 years)

• Chairman, CEO - Products, Sales, Engineering

  Broadband Mechanics

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 1992 — Present (16 years 7 months)

  Broadband Mechanics is bringing social to software. Our product - PeopleAggregator - is a social networking and blogging with two kinds of APIs. We can build a stand alone social network or we can bring social web features to existing software systems. We offer our product in source code form or via SaaS deals. We're working on creating and promulgating open standards for social networking.

• Owner - idea guy - talk show host

  Canter Technology

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

  January 1992 — April 1997 (5 years 4 months)

  Meet MediaBand, The Marc Canter Show and teh MediaBar were all projects undertaken by Canter Technology. The result is scalable content, multimedia personalization and a new paradigm of tools.

• Mac developer

  the Macintosh Industry

  (Computer Software industry)

  1984 — 1997 (13 years)

• CEO

  Canter Technology

  (Computer Software industry)

  1992 — 1997 (5 years)

• Hustler

  Macworld Expo

  (Computer Software industry)

  1985 — 1994 (9 years)

• Chairman - CEO - founder

  Macromedia

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MACR; Computer Software industry)

  February 1984 — January 1992 (8 years)

  This was my first life - creating new kinds of tools to enable creative people to build multimedia. What a long strange trip it was. This company became Macromedia.

• bottlewasher

  MacroMind

  (Computer Software industry)

  1988 — 1989 (1 year)

• Sound Engineer - Videogame developer

  Bally-Midway

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 1982 — December 1983 (1 year 4 months)

  I created meleody lines, sound effects and game logic for standup arcade videogame machines - at a division of Bally-Midway - called Dave Nutting Assoc. I programmed the first licensed soundtrack (Peter Gunn) for "Spy Hunter" and worked on a sequel to Pac-Man called "Professor Mac-Man".

• Laser Light Show tool programmer

  Science Faction

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 1982 — August 1982 (8 months)

  I helped design and build a programmable laser light show system - which was used at the Knoxville World's Fair and discos around the world. We invented an assembler language macro language which enabled "us" to program elaborate choreographed shows. The year was 1982.

• NAPLIPS (videotext) game programmer

  Time-Warner

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; T-W; Computer Software industry)

  August 1981 — February 1982 (7 months)

  I worked on an early trial videotext system - by Time-Warner. I programmed the sound for the Lunar Lander game - which gave me 76 bytes of storage to work with - 30 times a second.

Marc Canter’s Education

• Oberlin College

  BFA Intermedia, Multimedia, 1975 — 1980

  Dary John Mizelle was my guru. Robert Poor was there and Erik Neumann.

  Activities and Societies:

  Electronic Music, Video synthesis, Opera

Additional Information

Marc Canter’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Company
• My Portfolio

Marc Canter’s Interests:

Reggae, family, open social networking

Marc Canter’s Groups:

OpenID community, Identity Gang, FOAFnet, ThreadsML, Media RSS

•    The Industry Standard member
•    PC Forum 2005 member

Marc Canter’s Honors:

lets see - I was voted #2 entrepreneur in Illinois in 1985. Many people have called me one of the fathers of multimedia. I'm chapter 17 in a book called: Wagner to Virtual Reality. I have a wikipedia page. Google me.

Marc Canter’s Contact Settings

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