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Marc Canter is cofounder and Chief Evangelist of Cola, a company that publishes a messaging application. Previously, he was a founder of social networking tool Broadband Mechanics, as well as the company that became Macromedia. Canter is a contributor to many open standards efforts and advocates for end-user controlled digital identities and content - being a co-founder of the "Identity Gang",〔http://www.identitygang.org/ Identity Gang〕 and a co-signer of the Social Web Users' Bill of Rights.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Opensocial.org )〕 He has consulted with global corporations including PCCW and Intel and has written on the multimedia industry, micro-content publishing and social networking.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.sivas.com/microcontent/musings/ )〕 ==Business activities== Canter started his career after college when he travelled to New York City to help his friends build a music studio called "Noise New York." During this time Canter learned about laserdiscs, laser light shows, NAPLPS, pro audio and video equipment, and a then-new technology called videodiscs. Early in his career, Canter worked for Bally-Midway, programming music for video games. He coded one of the earliest pieces of licensed music content ("Peter Gunn" for Spyhunter).〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.linkedin.com/in/marccanter )〕 Canter co-founded MacroMind in 1984, the company that later became Macromedia, and began developing for the newly launched Apple Macintosh.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.adobe.com/macromedia/story/ )〕 MacroMind became Macromedia in 1991. He was part of the team that created the first multimedia player, the first cross-platform authoring system and the world's leading multimedia platform. Marc was considered one of the founders of multimedia, and has been a speaker, developer and evangelist in the industry for over a decade. He was involved in various other startups in the formulative stages of product development and design. He was an early participant in Tribe.net and helped develop its "tribes" system, and early social network 'groups' technology. He consulted for Ruckus Network and (Visual Media ). Broadband Mechanics has also collaborated with Avid Technology.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://broadbandmechanics.com/clients.html )〕 Canter was also involved in one of the first known cases of a virus being distributed via commercial software. According to the March 16, 1988 edition of the ''Toronto Star'', several MacroMind products shipped with virus infected media. Analysis later revealed that Canter's computer was infected with the virus while he was working on training material for the software products. Canter and JD Lasica founded a video sharing website, Ourmedia in March 2005. Canter was founder and CEO of Broadband Mechanics a digital lifestyle aggregator (DLA) company.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://broadbandmechanics.com/index.html )〕 Broadband Mechanics built tools and environments, including "People Aggregator", to enable online communities.〔(Marc Canter explains that People Aggregator source is available, but not under an open source license )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marc Canter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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