Dave Winer's Twitter posts for 12/5/2009

@nakedjen aww thanks
Answers to a reporter's questions about River2, in a 7-minute MP3. http://r2.ly/q9qj
@howardweaver -- none of this is about the reality of the products, this is advertising. apple's ads are nonsense, as are those for droid
@harrisj -- I think we all see these things differently that's why advertising is such an art. I own an iPhone, btw, and a Droid.
@harrisj -- I own many Macs and a few PCs too. So I know Apple lies in their ads. :-)
@calindrome http://droidie.com/2009/12/04/its-not-a-princess-its-a-robot/
@mirthlab -- I was thinking of their Mac vs PC ads. Just FYI. Don't flame people on Twitter. That's really lame! :-)
The new EC2 features will make packaged server software more of a reality. Still not as easy to set up as I'd like, but getting there.
App Store Is a Game Changer for Apple and Cellphone Industry. http://r2.ly/q9vq
You gotta wonder why Amazon, king of the online store, doesn't have an Apple-like app store. It's got to be on the way.
I've succesfully bundled and launched one of the new Amazon EC2 images. http://r2.ly/xm64
@mirthlab -- No probs. It was the "Oh please" part that seemed a bit flamey. "I disagree" would have been okay. :-)
We need: a programmable Twitter client. (Seems to have influenced a lot of developers, which is very cool.) http://r2.ly/wu2x
@skaye -- I use Amazon's console site. Used to use ElasticFox, but the Amazon app is easier.
2008: "Scalable apps are quickly becoming commodities." http://r2.ly/xm6v
Scoble is on United Airlines 914 to Paris. http://r2.ly/xkyz
Memories of a paywall pioneer. http://r2.ly/xmf3
EtherPad Blog: EtherPad is Back Online Until Open Sourced. http://r2.ly/xmm5
"Carol Bartz as CEO/Chair and Zuckerberg as Chief Nebbish." http://r2.ly/2af4
Doing something big vs enriching yourself. http://r2.ly/2aga