Dave Winer

Dave Winer ( born May 2, 1955 in Brooklyn, New York City ) is an American software developer, entrepreneur and writer in New York City. Winer is known for structure editors, scripting, content management, and web services, as well as for blogging and podcasting. He is the founder of software company Living Videotext and Userland Software, former columnist for the web magazine HotWired, author of Scripting News blog, former research fellow at Harvard University, and currently a visiting scientist at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University.

  • 3.1 24 Hours of Democracy
  • 3.2 Edit This Page
  • 3.3 Podcasting
  • 3.4 Blog Gercon
  • 3.5 Weblogs.com
  • 3.6 Share your OPML
  • 3.7 Rebooting the News

Background and education

Winer was born on May 2, 1955 in Brooklyn, the son of Eve Winer, Ph.D., a school psychologist, and Leon Winer, Ph.D., formerly a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, the October 3, 2009 died. Winer is also the grandnephew of the independent writer Arno Schmidt and a relative of Hedy Lamarr. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1972. Winer obtained a degree in Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Tulane University in New Orleans in 1976. He received in 1987 the title of Master of Science in computer science from the University of Wisconsin- Madison.

Career

Early work: Structure editors

Dave Winer in 1979 employed by Personal Software, where he worked on his own idea called VisiText, his first attempt to establish a market- compatible product with a "expand and collapse" Outline view. He left the company in 1981 and founded Living Videotext, to bring the then still unfinished product to market. The firm was based in Mountain View, California, and the operation presented in a short time more than 50 employees.

Think Tank, an outline editor that is based on Visitext, came out in 1983 for the Apple II and was touted as an "idea processor ". The software was the " first popular outline editor; the product that established the collective term. " Think Tank was launched in 1984 for the IBM PC.

Ready, an outline editor for the IBM PC, which was launched in 1985 and was based on the "Terminate and Stay Resident " principle, was a commercial success, but was soon replaced by the competitor Borland.

MORE, 1986 launched for the Apple Macintosh, joined a structure editor with a presentation program. This software was the " undisputed leader " and won the MacUser 's Editor 's Choice award in 1986 as "Best Product".

At the height of success Winer Living Videotext 1987 sold to Symantec for an indeterminate but stately participation, " worth a fortune " was. Winer continued working by Symantec Living Videotext department, left the company but after six months to pursue other challenges.

Years at UserLand Software

Winer UserLand Software, founded in 1988 and led the company as CEO until 2002.

After the failed attempt to establish userland main product Frontier as a scripting language for the Mac, ignited Winer's interest in web publishing, as he in the automation of the online newspaper hand docked in November 1994, which of the strikers in the newspaper strike of San Francisco was issued, and thus, " revolutionized Net Publishing. " according to Newsweek, the Winer concentrated in the sequence, the energies of his company on web publishing products that he even competed enthusiastically, and which he used on experimental development pattern of its websites. One of these products was Frontiers News Page Suite, with Winer his Scripting News blog maintained and taken up by a group of users who " began to play around with their own sites in the manner of Scripting News. " Among these users, in particular, Chris Gulker were and Jorn Barger, the defined blogging as a socially networked practice.

Winer was set in 1997 by the renowned conference organizer Seybold Seminars as a consultant because of his " pioneering work in web publishing systems." Eagerness to enter the " in hard competing arena of the most advanced web development ," Winer then began to develop the XML -RPC protocol with Microsoft. This led in collaboration with Don Box, Bob Atkinson and Mohsen Al- Ghosein also to SOAP.

In order to offer " much more timely information," Winer drafted in December 1997, a XML content syndication format, which he implemented on his Scripting News blog, and thus made an early contribution to content syndication on the web. In December 2000, were among the competing RSS variants several specifications of Netscape's RSS, Winer's RSS 0.92, and an RDF - BASED RSS 1.0. Winer developed RSS 0.92 further and brought in 2002 a version called 2.0 out RSS. Winer's endorsement of content syndication in general and RSS 2.0, in particular convinced many news organizations to provide their content in this format. The New York Times, for example, met in the spring of 2002, an agreement with UserLand Software, many of their articles in the RSS 2.0 format to publish.

With products and services that were based on his Frontier system was Winer in 1999 to become a leader in blogging applications, as well as a " leading evangelist of weblogs. "

In 2000, Winer developed the Outline Processor Markup Language ( OPML ), an XML format for outlines, which was originally Outline application as a file format for radio userland, but since then other applications have been found, such as exchange feed lists between feed readers.

Winer was named in 2002 by InfoWorld among the " Ten biggest technology innovators ."

In June 2002, Winer underwent bypass surgery to prevent a heart attack, and kicked it back as CEO of UserLand Software. He remained, however, the majority shareholder of the company and claimed Weblogs.com as private property.

Author

As " one of the most prolific content producers in the history of the Web, " Winer graduated a long career as an author and counts as one of the " most influential web voices" of Silicon Valley.

He launched DaveNet, a " consciousness - current newsletter distributed by e -mail" in November 1994 and entertained Web archives of these " silly and informative " 800 - word columns since January 1995, which he himself, in March 1995 a Cool Site of the Day Price deserved. DaveNet was a popular reading among leaders of the online industry, Dissatisfied with the quality of coverage in the trade press about Apple and, in particular, on its own Frontier Software, Winer saw DaveNet as an opportunity, the conventional news channels in the software industry since the beginning to "get around ". He " delighted in the new direct e-mail contact, which he had made ​​with his colleagues and professional associations, and the newfound ability to allow the media to get around. " In the early years Winer DaveNet used often, in order to express his frustration towards the management Apples. As a result of his often indignant criticism he was voted " most notorious among the disgruntled Apple developers. " Edited DaveNet columns appeared weekly in the Web magazine HotWired between June 1995 and May 1996. DaveNet was discontinued in 2004.

Winer launched Scripting News, recognized as " one of the oldest blogs " in February 1997 and became known as "Proto bloggers " as well as " forefather of blogging. " Scripting News began to mingle " as widely read commentator and ambitious entrepreneur his roles " as " a home for links, casual observations and ephemera " and allowed Winer. As a " continuously to write updated image of the work, Web software in the 1990s," the site became the " accepted must read the industry experts. " Scripting News is published today.

Academic tenure

Winer spent a year as a research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, where he worked in training on the use of blogs. There he launched the Harvard Blogs and held the first two blog Gercon conferences. Winer's appointment ended in June 2004.

Winer was appointed in 2010 as a visiting scientist at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University.

Projects

24 Hours of Democracy

In February 1996, hired as a columnist at the Web magazine HotWired, organized Winer 24 Hours of Democracy, an online protest against the recently passed Communications Decency Act. Over 1,000 contributors, including Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Posts were made on the Web their essays on the topic of democracy and civil rights.

Edit This Page

Since December 1999 Winer led a gratuitous blog hosting service called EditThisPage.com, and claimed in February 2001 to host "approximately 20,000 sites". The service was discontinued in December 2005.

Podcasting

Winer has rendered outstanding services to the "invention of podcasting model. " He also maintains a suitable podcast, Morning Coffee Notes.

Blog Gercon

Blog Gercon is an unconference for bloggers. Blog Gercon I ( October 2003) and II (April 2004) were held by Winer at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Blog Gercon III took place on November 6, 2004 at Stanford University.

Weblogs.com

Weblogs.com constituted a gratuitous Blogping service available, which was used by many blogging applications, as well as royalty-free hosting for many bloggers. After leaving UserLand Software, Winer Weblogs.com claimed as personal property, and suspended in mid-June 2004, unpaid blog hosting service without any warning, allegedly due to lack of resources and personal problems. A quick and orderly migration of Winer's server was made possible through the help of Rogers Cadenhead, the Winer had commissioned to convert the server to a more stable platform.

In October 2005, VeriSign bought the Weblogs.com Blogping service of Winer and promised that the free services remain free of charge. The Podcasting Site audio.weblogs.com was also included in the purchase price of $ 2.3 million.

Share your OPML

Winer opened Share your OPML as a " commons for sharing outlines, feeds and taxonomies " in May 2006. The site allowed users blogrolls and feed reader subscriptions via OPML exchange. Winer suspended the service in January 2008.

Rebooting the News

Since 2009, Winer works with Jay Rosen, a journalism lecturer at New York University on Rebooting the News, a weekly podcast about technology and innovation in journalism.

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