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A picture named daveTiny.jpgDave Winer, 56, is a visiting scholar at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and editor of the Scripting News weblog. He 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 New York City.

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Dave Winer's weblog, started in April 1997, bootstrapped the blogging revolution.

The coming Oauthcalypse Permalink.

A picture named zombie2.gifTomorrow at 8AM Pacific, Twitter will do something that will befuddle many end-users.

http://blog.twitter.com/2010/08/twitter-applications-and-oauth.html

I can't think of a precedent, a time when a platform vendor deliberately broke so much application software. It's possible that it's happened and I don't remember, but I find it hard to believe that I would not have heard of it. So much app breakage would surely make a loud sound! :-)

Twitter says it will mean improved security.

I think it means for sure fewer user-hours spent with apps not developed by Twitter, Inc.

Some of my apps will die tomorrow. For example, FriendsOfDave and dwcodeupdates. It probably won't be worth it to convert these little apps to use OAuth. It will impact very few people, mostly me. (FOD is like a quick aggregator for people whose updates I never want to miss. Codeupdates helps me confirm that updates made it through the OPML Editor's code management system. Neither are mission-critical, just nice-to-have.)

I'm sure tomorrow I'll learn of other Twitter-related apps that will not be updated. If you learn of any feel free to post a comment here.

# 8/30/2010; 6:17:15 PM.   .

Dear Apple, re your boycott of Flash Permalink.

As an iPad user I can tell you without a doubt, it isn't working.

I see new Flash content several times every day when I catch up on the news with my iPad. This isn't stuff that's going away, it's new stuff that creative people are publishing. New stuff, not legacy stuff.

In other words, they know we can't see it on the iPad and they went ahead anyway.

Sorry.

# 8/30/2010; 3:16:04 AM.   .

The Final Jeopardy answer is... Permalink.

He was shot after listening to this song.

http://ou.rs/5.mp3

# 8/30/2010; 3:11:55 AM.   .


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