Ken McCarthy was born on September 20,1959 and is an American activist, educator, entrepreneur, and Internet commercialization pioneer.
12 Facts About Ken McCarthy
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Ken McCarthy is credited in Time magazine with originating the idea of using click-through rates as the key metric of website performance.
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Ken McCarthy remains active in the Internet industry as an advisor, investor and entrepreneur operating under the name Amacord, Inc.
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Ken McCarthy worked as a consultant to NEC's Biglobe, Japan's largest online service, from 1996 to 2001.
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Ken McCarthy wrote the first book on Internet entrepreneurship published in Japan: The Internet Business Manual.
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In 1995, Ken McCarthy organized and sponsored a conference on the topic of using the web as a local publishing medium to assist community building.
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The Internet Gazette, a short-lived print publication distributed for free in the San Francisco Bay Area, was founded and published by Ken McCarthy to serve as a vehicle for disseminating practical advice to members of the Bay Area digital interactive communications community on how to use the Internet as a publishing and marketing tool.
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In 2005, inspired by the launches of YouTube and Google Video, Ken McCarthy began an online publication on Internet video called The System Video Blog.
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Ken McCarthy is quoted in an interview on July 9,2007, with Wes Unruh, of Alterati.
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In 1999, Ken McCarthy collaborated with filmmaker Rick Goldsmith to create an online archive of the work of American investigative journalist George Seldes in support of Goldsmith's Academy Award-nominated film Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press.
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Ken McCarthy's firm did the stonework for the chapel at West Point, Keating Hall at Fordham University, and the Peace Plaza of the United Nations, as well as numerous public works projects during the Robert Moses era.
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Ken McCarthy graduated from Regis High School in Manhattan in 1977 and Princeton University in 1981.