A new TV listing service came online this week called Couchville; it's a pretty Ajaxy app, easy to set up, I'd use it if it were as functional as Titan TV or the old Yahoo TV, but they play the same game that Yahoo does, fetching stuff as you scroll so it isn't fast enough for your eye to pan over the listings, and in Couchville (unlike the new Yahoo TV) you don't even get a vertical scrollbar.
Net result, it's not as fast as Titan, and speed wins over pretty in this app. It's not about esthetics if that gets in the way of utility, as it does in Couchville.
Last update: Thursday, June 3, 2010; 4:00:34 PM
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Dave Winer, 55, is a visiting scholar at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. 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.
"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.
A new TV listing service came online this week called Couchville; it's a pretty Ajaxy app, easy to set up, I'd use it if it were as functional as Titan TV or the old Yahoo TV, but they play the same game that Yahoo does, fetching stuff as you scroll so it isn't fast enough for your eye to pan over the listings, and in Couchville (unlike the new Yahoo TV) you don't even get a vertical scrollbar. 
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