Do you remember Season 3 of The Apprentice? I was a HUGE fan of Season 1, a
moderate fan of Season 2, and by Season 3, I was just barely hanging on.
However, there was one character on Season 3 who made things interesting, and
that was Danny Kastner. He was the guy on the book smarts team who carried
around a guitar and tried to turn every situation into a singable moment.
As his
Apprentice
3 bio mentions, he is a dot.com kinda guy, having run a company called
POPstick back in the day.
Now he's the CEO of
FanRocket. What does
FanRocket do? Watch the video to find out . . . I guess. If the video doesn't
explain it, FanRocket creates web video based community websites for businesses
such as televisions shows.
Kanster opened his pitch on why he should be the next Apprentice with the
sentence, "Donald Trump is not looking for clones." He certainly wouldn't have
gotten a clone out of Danny.
Full Transcript:
Danny Kastner: My name is Danny K. I am the CEO of Fan Rocket. I am here with
my man Ed Kohler from Technology Evangelist. This is the coolest blog on the
net for you we are looking for the ins and outs and the ways and
plays of technology and such so Ed is here. We are going to talk about
Fan Rocket that’s FanRocket.com, that’s a company they could embed social
networking with user generated content with professional TV programming and
one experience [Song]. Oh my god! Hey, where did you her, she is sexy. Ed so
the whole idea here is we work with network such as NBC where this really cool
show iystv.com that’s done with NBC and Carson Daily. You could go check it
out, you could vote on videos, you can upload and you will win 1000 bucks for
every contest. If you are done over 70 contests, it’s a really good time, so
over here excuse me Fan Rocket here is the solution to check it out and we’ve
the website and then I can’t see what I am doing I mean it to turn it this way
so I can see what’s going on here we are taking control of Ed’s blog actually.
We are going to zoom in here it’s almost, it’s upside down is a little radical
and you could see it's your show or you can rate, you can interact with
content ok we got here I could rate this guy. I can see who created the
content we had the social networking in all social embedded right in the whole
apparatus. I am Danny K fanrocket.com. Ed do you have questions.
Ed Kohler: Where, who is joining your site what sort of people? What sort of
people are joining you Danny K?
Danny kastner: Well, our site is not really that consumer facing site Ed, our
site is we license technology to companies like NBC or the CBS of the world,
they leverage FanRocket technology and considering you're a technology
evangelist do you know what I am talking about Ed, don’t you. Mom, I will be
home tonight for dinner. So considering you would understand the stuff may be
you should blog it to your users, so come over here, repeat after me Fan
Rocket.
Ed Kohler: Fan Rocket.
Danny Kastner: Is the coolest technology here at the VON show.
Ed Kohler: This has been an interesting interview.
Danny Kastner: Yes. He won’t admit it but it is. It’s very cool. What else you
want to know Ed.
Ed Kohler: So what’s the business model like who is putting money in your
pocket?
Danny Kastner: Ok. So who puts money in your pocket is that the networks and
the companies that leverage our technology the content owners
that want to create their own channels online big networks. I can mention
the NBC, I mentioned CBS. Companies like that, that are looking to nail it
down home brother, the Fan Rocket solution just connect with their audience.
Now it’s cool, which comes like BrightCove videoegg and
feedroom offer really cool video solution, but we did something more than
that. We embed social networking right in the video apparatus. So that is new
technology, that’s web 3.0, not web 2.0. A count of 3 is twice as much as 2.
Ed Kohler: That’s probably yes. Where is your company based?
Danny Kastner: The company is based in Hollywood California naturally is Ham
like me, but we are also at New York city and we’ve an office in Silicon
valley up here. We are about 16 people, we are all over the US. We have
different technologies, some of the best experts in the field that I went out
and hired hand picked. I have been in this business for 13 years Ed, in the
internet business my third start up and we are having a good time and I am
glad we are here on TechnologyEvangelist [song] to really have a good time.
There is nobody with more personality than my man Ed.
Ed Kohler: What did you do before you did this?
Danny kastner: I had a chemical popstick, and
we did cool marketing for big companies like MicroSoft, Dell, IBM
and such all across the United States of America. These United States [song],
look if somebody is going to watch your show, we’ve to make it interesting,
that’s what we are doing here Ed, sing with me for god’s sake. [song]
1. Posted by: Ryan Carlson on April 5, 2007 3:24 PM:
oh. my. goodness.
that guy TOTALLY ran away with things on you Ed.
but hey, you got a jingle out of the deal ;)