Marc's Voice

Beginning of Oct. 2012 blogging

I love it when the big business Wall St guys (who’ve been banned from trading) make statements like this:

One thing is clear: Our current system and philosophy are not sustainable.

Why not?

Because they’re creating a country of a few million overlords and 300+ million serfs.

- Henry Blodget

Broadband caps by ISPs are now the norm. Enter Google Fiber – launching in Hanover Heights, KCK – this month.

Community organizing – creates jobs! INDEED!  I like these folks at the Gamaliel Foundation!

Congrats to RecBob – a local KC company – on making it into DEMO

The CD is 30 years old – today.  Enter consumer optical storage.

Federated Social Web Summit – Oct. 26th – SF

This is actually what I thought the new MySpace was going to be

A new kind of event – in SF.  Oct is Innovation month.

I got fired from Facebook and it cost me $100m.  This is a GREAT article from an early Facebook employee – now head of AppSumo! Highly recommended read!

It’s a boy and he’s PURPLE!

APP.net paying developers $20k to build on their platform

Workday is finally going public. Take THAT Larry Ellison!

Open APIs now accepted in the corporate world

Enter the era of ecosystem lockin

CoCoon, Google Catalogs, Joomla 3.0 details,