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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.

"The protoblogger." - NY Times.

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

"Dave was in a hurry. He had big ideas." -- Harvard.

"Dave Winer is one of the most important figures in the evolution of online media." -- Nieman Journalism Lab.

10 inventors of Internet technologies you may not have heard of. -- Royal Pingdom.

One of BusinessWeek's 25 Most Influential People on the Web.

"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.

8/2/11: Who I Am.

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FYI: You're soaking in it. :-)


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

Pics feed Permalink.

I need a feed with pics for testing. Here it is.

http://static.scripting.com/randompic/rss.xml

When it's finished it'll pub a new pic every 10 minutes.

PS: It's finished. :-)

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Dropbox question Permalink.

Is there a limit to the number of files you can store in the Public folder of a Dropbox?

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A mistake I've been making Permalink.

I've been using Twitter as my notebook.

I should use my blog for that. :-)

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How to terminate a web service Permalink.

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# 3/24/2011; 11:31:29 AM.   .

Here comes the "social camera" Permalink.

Everyone is focusing on the $41 million that Color raised, but thanks to Tanomsak for pointing out that it is very close to the Social Camera I was asking for in June 2007. Worth noting.

A picture named minipostman.gifSo there's a use-case for this product that they're not promoting -- when you're traveling, now you'll be in the pictures you bring home, if enough people around you have this app.

Also you all should thank me for preventing a nasty patent, although it's pretty likely the company has already filed an application, don't you think? But there's the product described in a blog post four years ago. Makes it hard to claim it as a non-obvious invention. :-)

PS: To people who say you have to be in your 20s to understand today's technology, here's some pretty convincing proof that's not true. In 2007, I was 52 years old, when I had this $41 million idea. If you're only betting on 20-somethings, you're missing out on a lot of goodness.

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