Marc's Voice

Given “Lost’s” time travel motif, I can’t help but comment on and create a blog post on how coolio it is to be able to randomly jump throughout the five season mythology of “Lost”, pause, rewind, watch again - study - and then loop through the Lost storyline - again - but this time via episode #22 - instead of episode #4.

The other bonuses to watching “Lost” on Hulu are the web exclusive clips and an ‘enhanced’ set of episodes which actually explain what the hell is going on!

Collectively - watching “Lost” on-demand goes way beyond just watching TV. It’s navigating through a labyrinth of storyline mythology and time travel.

Highly recommended!

I’m not passive in any way

marc — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:16:21 +0000

My wife just said it perfectly.

I’m going to pursue the answers. I’m not gonna sit still and accept the status quo.

Kismet has brought me here and I’m letting fate guide me.

My current class has us building the user experiences for the Case Connection Zone. Stay tuned on that one. It’s installing 1,000 megabit connections into 104 homes and apartments on Hessler St. - directly adjacent to the CWRU campus.

Watch the videos of the class - and enjoy me having a GREAT time teaching!

It’s George’s birthday - and I’m blogging

marc — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:20:48 +0000

Happy birthday to my best friend here in Cleveland - George Nemeth!

The Open Web doesn’t have a single vendor

I can’t think of a better person to run Google’s social efforts - than Joseph Smarr!

Subscriptions are the new black - I still think OPEN is the new black. Others agree.

It’s Time to Know

Regrets on being a Digital nation

Monetization and consolidation in the land of Second Life.

Microsoft Azure finally ships….

Werner Vogels and Amazon = rock!

Divest divest divest - is what Yahoo is all about.

Learning from your garden - is crucial

Gotta get me one of those Meebo bars!

Tee Hee Hee - I’ve had to explain to potential customers the difference between en entity page (Pages in Facebook parklance) and Groups - for years. Here’s the guide ot Facebook’s definitions.

Looks like they had a great birthday party for Doug Engelbart! Wish I was there.

the future of Jobs

If Cisco is making money - that’s a good thing! Akamai too! And News Corp s

Critical Mass still going strong in SF

Congrats to UStream - looks like they’re tied into Softbank, Asia and a solid base of future customers. Now where are their APIs?

Essex & Delancey St Juice bar - right near Sammy’s Romanian Steak House.

Strategic Doing, iChange, Quirky, Slideshare Custom channels,

A blog post about Cleveland, Youngstown and the Plain Dealer

marc — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:59:38 +0000

Over here in NEO (North East Ohio) the Plain Dealer is the old school media player who’s Cleveland.com has been the old school portal of note.

In yesterday’s Sunday paper the Plain Dealer published:

- yet another article on Youngstown and the Youngstown Business Incubator (YBI)

- an attack on the Cleveland Foundation pulling their funding from the Fund for the Economic Future

Jim Cossler is the driving force the YBI and he’s almost single handedly forcing companies to move to Youngstwon. Jim’s fervor and passion is what ignites the YBI and makes Youngstown what it is today.

What’s funny about these two articles running in the same issue, is that the other article defending Brad Whitehead and the FFEF - is the claim that the agencies funded by the FEFF have made $1B of impact on our local economy.

Now I’m not some high falooted economist, but I’d sure like to know WHERE that impast is being felt! Perhaps Brad Whitehead’s $353,000 salary getting spent on his Mercedes lease or his kid’s private school is what the Plain Dealer is referring to - but I sure as hell don’t see that impact!

Take an organization such as JumpStart - the Cleveland equivalent to Cossler’s YBI. JumpStart has spent over $40M in the past five years and funded a little over $14M in investments to startups in the area. Yet I don’t know of one “hit” - such as the YBI’s ‘Turning Technologies’ investment.

YBI runs itself on a shoestring budget (under $1M) and still gets it together to renovate buildings and house startups - for free!

Perhaps if some of JumpStarts investments actually paid off and generated jobs - this whole ‘funding’ issue would disappear - but the honest fact is, that despite protestations and insider complaints, it was a really SMART move by the Cleveland Foundation to pull their support of the FEFF!

The BioEnterprise folks seem to be doing a pretty good job, but can you tell me what NorTech, Team NEO and Magnet do? this whole FEFF thing looks like a boondoggle to me! How can they claim to have any positive impact at all? Have their gone outside and looked around lately?

These non-profit folks are riding a gravy train of overhead, sucking up over 50% of their funding to pay themselves. Apparently this is standard operating procedures here in NEO, but that seems a bit greedy and inefficient if you ask me.

No where in the Plain Dealer article is this honest fact brought up! Rather the article focuses on the story told by David Abbot (of the Gund Foundation) and the other supporters of Brad Whitehead. Of course they’re going to support the FEFF, it’s THEIR money as well that’s getting squandered! They don’t want to look bad!

IMHO

Kicking off Feb. 2010 - blogging

marc — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:36:45 +0000

Tee Hee Hee - it seems that the 26 year journey of Flash and multimedia players - is still not resolved. Funny how lock-in standards just WANT to get open sourced! Maybe if Apple had bought us “back in the day” - we wouldn’t have this problem. And boo hoo to all those iPad users who have their periods and don’t like blue boxes!

Perhaps they should just NOT buy an IPad and use a iTampon.

Or maybe if Apple had bought us - we’d be in worse shape - then ever! The idea that Apple is fighting off the Flash dominance - and fundamentally helping Microsoft and Google - is just so humorous to me!

Facebook apparently has written their own php compiler - and guess who is pissed? Zend!

Speaking of Facebook - I must say that I am VERY jazzed about this upcoming movie. I have played out a movie script several times (in my head) over my own life’s experiences and it looks like this movie is gonna rip it to shreds! Right on - on outting this whole dam process! Being here in Cleveland has only magnified how absurd Silicon Valley is!

Our own script to “Meet the MediaBand” was never made.

Still haven’t sat through the complete Crash Course - but plan to!

Just as a reminder - there are LOTS of elements required when establishing a standard. Thanks to Eran Hammer-Lahav for this excellent list!

As promised, Obama is going to change the BCS championship monopoly - and get us some real playoffs!

Birth of the Virtual Assistant

Distributed agile - by Lilia Effimova

4 on-line invoicing resources

Creative usage of video annotations

ClientShow, CityGrid, Google Apps Script, Twitter Dress, Google email uploader, OpenSource.com, Audacity,

Final Jan Blogging - ‘10

marc — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:50:36 +0000

I tried to talk to Anil Dash about the work we’re doing here in Cleveland to generate Jobs. He listened - but he told me - AMAZINGLY - that Expert Labs was NOT interested in Jobs. That’s just AMAZING to me. It’s the #1 issue facing us today! If there’s anyone reading this blog - who can get me into folks in Wash or anywhere - to help generate and train for jobs - please do!

Its great to see Bill partying. Think of all those years where Bill could have been up in the suite with us - getting geslig - while all those suits were downstairs - acting straight. It’s high time Bill “let his hair down!” You only live ONCE!

I like it - the Open Swat team!

Support.com is generating jobs!

Have you taken the Crash Course?

I think Calacanis has begun his exit from Mahalo.

I predict Yahoo will merge with AOL - they’re both about content now

VMWare seems to be the player to beat - or hook up with!

I guess the fanboys need to start attacking people now - who have the audacity of criticizing Apple

Why we need tech events for women

Notes to founders

Virtualization pros in high demand!

While everyone around here watches Apple, Nokia shipped 127M units last year!

CloudKick,