In May 2007, Marc Canter, 'a well-known figure in the sphere of open
standards, social networks and blogging', will visit Japan. Take this
opportunity to hear from Marc and mix and mingle with Tokyo's
international internet community.

PRESENTATION OVERVIEW

Digital Lifestyle Aggregation: Portals 2.0 (DLAs)

As the worlds of social networking and blogging become more and more
of a commodity, new `destination' sites are arising which provide
integrated, aggregated and highly customizable interfaces. These DLAs
will bridge the world of PCs, with mobile, gaming and TV. Are they
long awaited solution for convergence? What about the battle between
the big boys (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, MySpace) and all the
smaller players? Will there be any crumbs left on the table - for us?

And what will the global, distributed, decentralized mesh of
inter-connected social networking and blogging platforms look like?

SPEAKER PROFILE

Marc Canter is a well-known figure in the sphere of open standards,
social networks and blogging. Marc co-founded MacroMind in 1984 and
began developing for the newly launched Apple Macintosh. 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. Over the years Marc has
also traveled worldwide, consulting to global corporations and has
written on the multimedia industry and burgeoning world of
micro-content publishing and social networking.He is the founder and
CEO of Broadband Mechanics (http://broadbandmechanics.com) a digital
lifestyle aggregator (DLA) company. Broadband Mechanics builds tools
and environments to enable online communities. (Source: Wikipedia.org)

For Marc's full profile see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Canter

DATE: 17 May 2007

TIME : 18:30 'til late (Presentation from 19:00)

COST: 2,000 yen includes light finger food buffet. Drinks pay-as-you-go.

VENUE: The Pink Cow - Great food and drinks
Shibuya, Tokyo
http://www.thepinkcow.com

RSVP required. Limit 100 people. Sign from the link at the bottom of
this page: http://tinyurl.com/2qpf44