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Scripting News, the weblog started in 1997 that bootstrapped the blogging revolution.
A debut

Robert Scoble does the first "Hello World" FacebookGram.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.
It's TwitterGram inside Facebook. History is made. Yehi! ";->" Permanent link to this item in the archive.
A picture named mixer.jpgMy old friend Don Park did the Facebook development, and the front-end is, as usual, provided by BlogTalkRadio.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.
The hits just keep on comin! Permanent link to this item in the archive.
Okay, I couldn't miss out on the fun, so I called in a TwitterGram in the usual way after setting up Facebook, and sure enough, the gram appears in my Twitter account. It also appears in my personal TwitterGram RSS 2.0 feed with enclosures. And it appears in my Facebook page after I click the Manual update button. Permanent link to this item in the archive.



     

Last update: Thursday, June 3, 2010; 4:01:23 PM



~About the Author~

A picture named dave.jpgDave 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.

"The protoblogger." - NY Times.

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

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.

Mail: Mailto icon scriptingnews1mail at gmail dot com.

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