Dave Winer 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 Berkeley, California.
Early Notes on GoogleApps
Now, what Google
announced is really
exciting! I'm not
kidding. It's even better
than I hoped. Yes, it's
only Python, but IBM's
PC-DOS was only BASIC and
Pascal when it first came
out, and it didn't
matter. Yeah, I preferred
C, but I coded in Pascal
because that's...Apr. 10, 2008 09:15 AM Reads: 7,085 Replies: 1
Imho, Google has a long
way to go to build the
base of users and
developers connected
using the new protocol
that is the subject of
all this chest-thumping.
Do they exist in any
tangible form? How much
of a moving target are
they? It's like
proclaiming the new
o...
Standards devised by one
tech company whose main
purpose is to undermine
another tech company,
usually don't work. In
this case it's Google
trying to undermine
Facebook. And I don't
think it's going to work.
What would be exciting
and uplifting, a real
game-change...
Another topic Scoble and
I talked about today was
Facebook. I said I don't
like Facebook, never
have, and I finally
figured out why. It's
another one of those user
generated content things,
only this time I'm
building up an address
book that I can look at,
but can...
The idea then came up
again with the push to
integrated software in
the early 80s. Mitch
Kapor and Lotus were
selling the idea of an
all-in-one package,
Symphony, which was a
word processor, database,
spreadsheet, graphics and
communication program,
with a macro l...
Mike gets stories that
CNet doesn't get, that no
one else gets. Look at
the piece he did on Mitch
Kapor's product earlier
today. Compare that
against the nonsense that
passes for tech news done
by the pros. They put
reporters on the stories
who have no idea what
t...
