Dave Winer is a software pioneer. He created or was a lead contributor to several of the most popular XML formats and APIs related to web publishing (e.g., blogs), including RSS, XML-RPC, OPML, and the MetaWeblog API. His blog has been published forever and his tools are used by many bloggers. Prior to this he popularized the outline software category with titles like More and ThinkTank.
This lens focuses on Dave's creations and blogs. It is also an aggregator of his various blogs, though not in the format he prefers.
Contents at a Glance
Scripting News
It's even worse than it appears.
Dave%u2019s Wordpress Blog
Just another WordPress.com weblog
Morning Coffee Notes
An occasional podcast by Dave Winer, editor of Scripting News.
Photos from Flickr
Dave's Software World
Created, authored, contributed, invented, or touched.
Dave likes to develop software and interfaces. Since Dave likes blogs, this is in reverse chronlogical order.
- OMPL Editor (2005)
- While the format for this XML was developed in 2000, it was in 2005 that he opened up a beta version of this software. In a way he is going back to his roots with outline in this effort, but with some great twists. Lens on OPML is being developed.
- Podcasting (2003) WikiPedia
- It is hard to dispute that podcasting wouldn't be the same without Dave's contribution. Lots of controversy that I don't need to go into. There are many Lenses on podcasts, start here.
- RSS 2.0 (1997)
- The rights to the RSS Spec was turned over to Harvard a few years ago when Dave was at the Berkman Center there. The RSS Lens.
- XML-RPC (1995)
- XML-RPC is a remote procedure call protocol.
- Frontier Kernel (1992)
- Dave convinced Userland to move Frontier into Open Source and created a Yahoo Group for developers.
- Userland (1987)
- After Living Videotext Dave founded UserLand. From Manila came sprang some of the technologies that we expect in blogging.
- Outliners (1981)
- Dave created the software category of outliners in '80s with ThinkTank, Ready and MORE. Still useful software and making a comeback with his OPML.
by razweekly
I'm a fan of Dave Winer. ThinkTank was a great invention and I believe RSS changes everything. So I read Dave's blog regularly. I've sold software, write... more »
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