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Marc
Ostrofsky
is
a domain industry veteran who first gained fame
for selling Business.com in a deal valued
at $7.5 million in 1999 but these days he
is better known as the best selling author of Get
Rich Click!, a
hot new book about making money on the internet
that he released in May. The success of his book
earned Marc an invitation to appear on ABC-TV's
national morning talk show The View
June 9th (you can read our
review of his appearance here). Marc
performed so well on the show that the producers
invited him to come back for today's
network telecast (Friday, July 8, 2011). Last
time Marc talked about how you can use domain
names and other tools to make money on the
Internet. This time producers ask him to talk
about some of his favorite apps for
smartphones and Apple's Ipad in a segment titled
Amazing Apps. Once again Marc did
a terrific job of explaining technology in
terms that non-techies can easily understand and
get excited about (you can view
his segment here). 
Marc
Ostrofsky (right) on today's national
telecast of ABC-TV's The View
with co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg (left) and Elisabeth
Hasselbeck (center). After
watching Ostrofsky's two guest shots I have come
away convinced that some smart network
producer will make him a regular on their
show (if I ran The View I would sign him
up before someone else does) or give him a show
of his own. The Internet and closely related
fields like mobile are among the few exceptionally
bright spots in an otherwise dismal economy.
With the web providing a path for people to
bypass the moribund job market and go into
business for themselves there is currently a
great hunger for information on how to to do
that so Marc's message comes at a perfect point
in history. Plus, he has the personality, the
been there done that credibility and the communications
skills necessary to impart that message to the
masses, making him a valuable media commodity. Though
today's appearance was about apps rather than
domains I found it just as interesting as I
learned about some cool new apps I will download
myself. I already use several that Marc
highlighted like Yelp, Shazam and Red
Laser but was not aware of Word Lens,
one that wowed me (as well as the show's hosts).
That app allows you to point you phone's video
camera at printed words and see them instantly
translated from one language to another. You
almost have to see it to believe it. Marc
is serving up some good stuff and shining a
bright and positive media light on our business
in the process. I can't wait to see more.
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