Scripting News: 7/5/07

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Thanks to CNET & Apple

A picture named iphone.gif Thanks to CNET for the boost for nytimesriver, and thanks to Apple for putting the focus on mobile news sites. We're getting much more flow today, in one day, than we did in the last three months. Awesome. That's the power fo both CNET & Apple.

This is, imho, the best way to read news on a mobile device. And the Times produces so much great news. The iPhone and the Times were made for each other.

BTW, when you see the little speaker icon, that's a podcast. When you click, the audio plays. Works great on an iPhone. Think about how rational and futuristic that is.

And of course nytimesriver runs great on any mobile device, it was originally developed for my Blackberry.

Doc Searls on Steve Jobs in 1997

Seems like a good time to link back to Doc Searls' piece on Steve Jobs, shortly after he returned to Apple in 1997. "These things I can guarantee about whatever Apple makes from this point forward," Doc said...

1. It will be original.

2. It will be innovative.

3. It will be exclusive.

4. It will be expensive.

5. It's aesthetics will be impeccable.

6. The influence of developers, even influential developers like you, will be minimal. The influence of customers and users will be held in even higher contempt.

7. The influence of fellow business artisans such as Larry Ellison (and even Larry's nemesis, Bill Gates) will be significant, though secondary at best to Steve's own muse.

Up on Cripple Creek

Don Park writes to say "Adobe crippled audio recording in Flash so that bits from microphone are always sent directly to server-side *without* compression."

Last update: Thursday, July 5, 2007 at 4:37 PM Pacific.

Dave Winer, 52, 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.

"The protoblogger." - NY Times.

"The father of modern-day content distribution." - PC World.

"Helped popularize blogging, podcasting and RSS." - Time.

"The father of blogging and RSS." - BBC.

"RSS was born in 1997 out of the confluence of Dave Winer's 'Really Simple Syndication' technology, used to push out blog updates, and Netscape's 'Rich Site Summary', which allowed users to create custom Netscape home pages with regularly updated data flows." - Tim O'Reilly.

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Things to revisit:

1. Microsoft patent acid test.

2. What is a weblog?

3. Advertising R.I.P.

4. How to embrace & extend.

5. Bubble Burst 2.0.

6. This I Believe.

7. Most RSS readers are wrong.

8. Who is Phil Jones?

9. Send them away.

10. Negotiate with users.

11. Preserving ideas.

12. Empire of the Air.

13. NPR speech.

14. Russo & Hale.

15. Trouble at the Chronicle.

15. RSS 2.0.

16. Checkbox News.

17. Spreadsheet calls over the Internet.

18. Twitter as coral reef.

19. Mobs of the blogosphere.

20. Advice for Campaigns.

21. Social Cameras.

22. The Next Big Thing.

23. It's time to open up networking, again.

24. Am I competing?

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