Silicon Valley Sightings: Marc Canter

Above: Dining with Marc in Emeryville, at PF Chang’s

I was lucky to have dinner with Marc Canter a few weeks back, he’s one of the Internet Uncles, a real inventor and thought and practice leader. Wikipedia has a great profile on him, so I’ll try to tell you some interesting things that I learned having dinner with him for a few hours:

Marc has introduced some very influential people together that have created new technologies, he was a founder of Macromedia which is now part of Adobe (I used to use Dreamweaver and before that HomeSite when I was into UI design). He’s doing some amazing things in Europe around networking, and will be spending quite a bit of time there this summer. He doesn’t drink alcohol. He actually has a background in digital music (I was a jazz performance major before going to web stuff) and I’ve observed that Marc likes to wear orange shirts, I forgot to ask him why. One of his biggest fans Valeriewag sits right behind me. He recently turned 50. There’s a lot of interesting photos of him in theFlickr, some of which he’s sleeping in boring conferences while wearing colorful shirts.

Oh, I interviewed Marc on Video, I wanted to know more about his White Label Social Networking product, People Aggregator (looks like they just did a nice redesign). I’ll let you all know when it is published.

Here’s to Marc Canter, one of the father’s of the industry.

(Silicon Valley Sightings is an ongoing PhotoBlog that captures the intersection of Tech Culture in the San Francisco Silicon Valley Bay Area, check out the archives. All photos by Jeremiah Owyang)

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