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Dave Winer
Dave Winer pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in Berkeley, California. |
Early Notes on GoogleApps By Dave Winer  Now, what Google
announced is really
exciting! I'm not
kidding. It's even better
than I hoped. Yes, it's
only Python, but IBM's
PC-DOS was only BASIC and
Pascal when it first came
out, and it didn't
matter. Yeah, I preferred
C, but I coded in Pascal
because that's... Apr. 10, 2008 09:15 AM Reads: 11,505 Replies: 1 | New York Times and
Burnout in the
Blogosphere By Dave Winer The NY Times had a story
yesterday,
much-written-about in the
blogosphere, that said
that bloggers were
working themselves to
death. This was one
article about blogging I
was glad to be left out
of, even so, it could
have been about me, a
number of years ago, when... Apr. 7, 2008 02:30 PM Reads: 7,516 Replies: 1 | The Next Step in Digg
Clones By Dave Winer So here's the idea...
Imagine Digg in the old
days, when there were
just 25 people using it.
Maybe that wasn't enough.
Maybe it didn't really
get interesting until
there were 100 users or
250 or 1000. It was good,
the articles were gems,
things we weren't finding
... Nov. 27, 2007 08:15 AM Reads: 6,254 Replies: 3 | Contrary Opinion: MySpace
and Google, Where's the
Beef? By Dave Winer  Imho, Google has a long
way to go to build the
base of users and
developers connected
using the new protocol
that is the subject of
all this chest-thumping.
Do they exist in any
tangible form? How much
of a moving target are
they? It's like
proclaiming the new
o... Nov. 2, 2007 04:00 PM Reads: 8,055 | Google Trying to
Undermine Facebook By Dave Winer  Standards devised by one
tech company whose main
purpose is to undermine
another tech company,
usually don't work. In
this case it's Google
trying to undermine
Facebook. And I don't
think it's going to work.
What would be exciting
and uplifting, a real
game-change... Oct. 31, 2007 12:45 PM Reads: 10,305 Replies: 1 | Why Facebook Sucks By Dave Winer  Another topic Scoble and
I talked about today was
Facebook. I said I don't
like Facebook, never
have, and I finally
figured out why. It's
another one of those user
generated content things,
only this time I'm
building up an address
book that I can look at,
but can... Oct. 16, 2007 02:30 PM Reads: 8,874 Replies: 1 | Forrester is Wrong on
iPhone By Dave Winer Forrester analyst Vidya
Lakshmipathy claims that
the iPhone's approach to
the web eliminates the
need for 'stripped down
sites crammed onto the
small screens of devices
meant for phoning, not
browsing.' I would love
to agree, but I came to
the opposite conclusion.
... Oct. 7, 2007 08:45 AM Reads: 14,590 Replies: 2 | Should Every Application
Be a Platform? By Dave Winer  The idea then came up
again with the push to
integrated software in
the early 80s. Mitch
Kapor and Lotus were
selling the idea of an
all-in-one package,
Symphony, which was a
word processor, database,
spreadsheet, graphics and
communication program,
with a macro l... Sep. 10, 2007 05:15 PM Reads: 9,340 Replies: 1 | An iPod with a Radio?
Apple Is Chickenshit! By Dave Winer Tomorrow Apple is going
to announce something
new, people say it's an
iPod of some sort, and
there are rumors that its
big innovation is that it
supports digital radio,
with a tie-in to the
Apple site that sells
music. Okay, that's
all speculation, let's
get th... Sep. 5, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 9,421 Replies: 2 | Microsoft Search Engine
Meeting: There Are Two
Sides to Every Story By Dave Winer A few years ago, along
with a bunch of other
bloggers, I was invited
to a Microsoft event to
discuss their search
engine. Having been to
many such Microsoft
events in the past, I
thought the format was
they would talk, and then
we would talk, and then
they would t... Aug. 16, 2007 05:30 PM Reads: 4,967 Replies: 2 | What Is Web 3.0? By Dave Winer My talk went well, and I
did talk briefly about
how we should think about
Web 3.0. I know other
people have said it's the
Semantic Web, and maybe
that use of the name will
stick. I'm with Tim
Berners-Lee who says Web
2.0 is really what the
web itself is about. He
... Aug. 5, 2007 10:45 AM Reads: 18,033 Replies: 1 | Will CNet Survive Web 2.0
and the Blogosphere? By Dave Winer  Mike gets stories that
CNet doesn't get, that no
one else gets. Look at
the piece he did on Mitch
Kapor's product earlier
today. Compare that
against the nonsense that
passes for tech news done
by the pros. They put
reporters on the stories
who have no idea what
t... Jul. 28, 2007 07:45 AM Reads: 9,925 Replies: 1 | iPhone Sales and the
Product Itself
Disappointing By Dave Winer Today's the 25th of July,
the iPhone shipped on
June 29, that's the day I
got mine, so we're
getting pretty close to
the end of a month with
the iPhone. The tech
press usually doesn't
review products after a
month of use, but that's
when you really find out
if it ... Jul. 25, 2007 02:30 PM Reads: 9,061 Replies: 1 | Why Feedburner Is
Trouble, Day 2 By Dave Winer Saturday's post about
Feedburner was
much-discussed, and
that's good. The most
common rebuttal from
people who didn't agree
was the user's ability to
opt out. If you don't
like it you don't have to
use Feedburner. But
that's not any kind of a
rebuttal at all. Let ... Jul. 23, 2007 04:45 PM Reads: 5,841 Replies: 1 | Why Feedburner Is Trouble By Dave Winer So now someone at Google
'owns' Feedburner and all
their feeds. And they
could, if they wanted to,
change the feeds to
another format,
overnight, without asking
anyone. Reader software
might have trouble
working with it. They
would say 'Oh but the new
feeds work b... Jul. 22, 2007 06:00 PM Reads: 7,198 Replies: 1 | Instant Indexing by
Google By Dave Winer I just searched on Google
for 'flatdown opml' and
it returned the article I
wrote 15 minutes ago. In
1997 I wrote about
Just-in-Time Search
Engines and how important
they would be. Back then
I was thinking about
overnight indexing. Now
we've got instant
indexing. ... Jul. 22, 2007 04:30 PM Reads: 6,216 Replies: 1 | Web 2.0 - It's Time to
Open Up Networking, Again By Dave Winer Last week I had a meeting
with a serial
entrepreneur who's
working on a new company
whose product is a
calendar for social
networks, or a social
network of calendars,
depending on which thread
you pick up. It's
basically a good idea, a
no-brainer, because time
a... Jun. 21, 2007 04:30 PM Reads: 8,944 Replies: 1 | What To Doo With Yahoo? By Dave Winer The big win for Yahoo was
My.Yahoo, it was the
perfect example of send
them away to get them to
come back. Any comeback
for Yahoo must include
revitalizing this
service, quickly, because
this is yet another area
where Google is gaining
ground on the sleeping
giant... Jun. 19, 2007 10:30 PM Reads: 6,215 Replies: 1 | Apache Question By Dave Winer The server that runs this
site is running Windows
2000 and Apache for
Windows. My CMS is the
OPML editor. I use a
desktop tool to
communicate with the
editor on the server via
XML-RPC. When I save the
document locally, it
sends a copy to the
server, where it rende... Jun. 10, 2007 01:45 PM Reads: 7,013 | Google Gears By Dave Winer Google is going to
announce a toolkit today
that lets you run web
apps on a disconnected
machine. Something we had
working in Radio in 2001.
The key is something
called a desktop web
server. Nothing
revolutionary about it. A
database and CMS that
runs on the local... Jun. 2, 2007 04:30 PM Reads: 7,310 Replies: 2 |
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