What are Open Standards?
Marc Canter, co-founder of Identity Gang, is a well known pioneer of open standards, and is a frequent speaker and panelist at conferences. Marc is also a contributor to many open standards efforts and is champion for end-user controlled digital identities and content.
According to Wikipedia: “Over the years Marc has also traveled worldwide, consulting to global corporations (AOL, EMI, PCCW, Reuters, T-W, Sony, JVC, Fujitsu, Telecom Italia, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Apple, Kaleida Labs and many others) 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, a digital lifestyle aggregator (DLA) company. Broadband Mechanics builds tools and environments to enable online communities. They target their products at a broad user base with the hope that everyday people can make better use of Internet technologies.”
