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

Origin and education

Winer was born in Brooklyn on May 2, 1955, to Eve Winer, Ph.D., a school psychologist, and Leon Winer, Ph.D., former professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Business, who died on October 3, 2009 passed away. Winer is also the great-nephew of the freelance writer Arno Schmidt and a relative of Hedy Lamarr . He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1972. Winer earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Tulane University in New Orleans in 1976 . He received a Masters of Science degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1987 .

Career

Early work: outline editors

Dave Winer joined Personal Software in 1979 working on his own idea called VisiText, his first attempt at making a marketable product with an "expand and collapse" outline view. He left the company in 1981 and founded Living Videotext to bring the product, which was still unfinished at the time, onto the market. Headquartered in Mountain View , California , the operation quickly employed over 50 people.

ThinkTank, an outline editor based on visiting text, came out in 1983 for the Apple II and was touted as an "idea processor". The software became “the first popular outline editor; the product that established the collective term. ”In 1984, ThinkTank was also launched for the IBM PC .

Ready, an outline editor for the IBM PC , which was launched in 1985 and based on the " Terminate and Stay Resident " principle, was a market success, but was soon ousted by Borland's competing product .

MORE, launched in 1986 for the Apple Macintosh , combined an outline editor with a presentation program . This software became the "undisputed market leader" and won the MacUser's Editor's Choice award for "Best Product" in 1986 .

At the height of the success, Winer Living sold Teletext to Symantec in 1987 for an unquantified but stately stake that was "worth a fortune". Winer continued to work at Symantec's Living Teletext division but left after six months to pursue other challenges.

Years with UserLand Software

Winer founded Userland Software in 1988 and ran the company as managing director until 2002.

After the unsuccessful attempt to establish UserLand's flagship product Frontier as the scripting language for the Mac , Winer's interest in web publishing was sparked when he helped automate the online newspaper in November 1994, which was supported by the strikers in the San Francisco newspaper strike which, according to Newsweek , “revolutionized net publishing.” Winer then concentrated the energies of his company on web publishing products, which he himself enthusiastically promoted and which he used in an experimental way when developing his websites. One such product was Frontier's NewsPage Suite, which Winer used to run his Scripting News blog and which was picked up by a group of users who "started playing around with their own sites in the scripting news manner." Those users included Chris and Gulker in particular Jorn Barger, who defined blogging as a socially networked practice.

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

In order to be able to offer "much more up-to-date information", Winer designed an XML - content syndication format in December 1997 , which he implemented on his Scripting News blog, and thus made an early contribution to content syndication on the web. In December 2000, competing RSS variants included several specifications from Netscape's RSS, Winers RSS 0.92, and an RDF -based RSS 1.0. Winer developed RSS 0.92 further and in 2002 released a version called RSS 2.0. Winner's support for content syndication in general, and RSS 2.0 in particular, has convinced many news organizations to deliver their content in this format. The New York Times met, for example, in early 2002 an agreement with UserLand Software, many of their items in RSS to publish 2.0 format.

With products and services based on his Frontier system, Winer became a leader in blogging applications in 1999 and a "leading weblog evangelist."

In 2000, developed Winer the Outline Processor Markup Language (OPML), an XML format for outlines , which originally served as the file format for Radio UserLand Outline application, but since then, other applications have been found, such as Feed lists between feedreaders exchange.

In 2002 InfoWorld named Winer among the "Ten Greatest Technology Innovators".

In June 2002, Winer underwent bypass surgery to prevent a heart attack and then stepped down as Managing Director of UserLand Software. However, he remained the majority shareholder in 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 has had a long career as a writer and is one of the "most influential web voices" in Silicon Valley .

He launched DaveNet , an "E-mailed Awareness Stream" newsletter in November 1994, and maintained web archives of these "silly and informative" 800-word columns since January 1995, making it a cool site of the March 1995 Day prize earned. DaveNet has been popular reading among online industry leaders from the very beginning. Dissatisfied with the quality of the media coverage of Apple and, in particular, of its own Frontier software, Winer saw DaveNet as an opportunity to "bypass" the software industry's conventional news channels. He "took delight in the new direct e-mail connection he had made with his colleagues and colleagues and the newfound ability to use it to handle the media." In the early years, Winer often used DaveNet to ease his frustration to give expression to the management of Apple. As a result of his often indignant criticism, he became "the most notorious of the disgruntled Apple developers." DaveNet edited columns, published 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 the "protoblogger" or the "forefather of blogging." Scripting News began as "a home for links, casual observations, and ephemera " and allowed it is Winer to mix up "his roles as a widely read commentator and an ambitious entrepreneur". As a “continuously updated image of how web software was written in the 1990s”, the website became “generally recognized must-read for industry experts.” Scripting News continues to appear today.

Academic employment

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

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

Projects

24 Hours of Democracy

In February 1996, while working as a columnist for the web magazine HotWired, Winer organized 24 Hours of Democracy , an online protest against the recently passed Communications Decency Act . Over 1,000 contributors, including Microsoft founder Bill Gates , posted their essays on democracy and civil rights on the web.

Edit This Page

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

Podcasting

Winer did a great job of “inventing the podcasting model.” He also maintains his own podcast, Morning Coffee Notes.

BloggerCon

BloggerCon is a non-conference for bloggers. BloggerCon I (October 2003) and II (April 2004), held by Winer at the Berkman Center for the Internet and Society at Harvard University . BloggerCon III took place at Stanford University on November 6, 2004.

Weblogs.com

Weblogs.com provided a free blogping service that was used by many blogging applications, as well as free hosting for many bloggers. After leaving Userland Software, Winer claimed Weblogs.com as personal property and suspended the free blog hosting service in mid-June 2004 without warning, allegedly due to lack of resources and personal problems. A quick and orderly migration from Winers Server was made possible with the help of Rogers Cadenhead, whom Winer had commissioned to move the server to a more stable platform.

In October 2005, VeriSign bought Winer's Weblogs.com blogping service and promised that its free services would remain free. The audio.weblogs.com podcasting site was also included in the $ 2.3 million purchase price.

Share your OPML

Winer opened Share your OPML as a "commons for the exchange of outlines, feeds and taxonomies" in May 2006. The site made it possible for its users to exchange blogrolls and feedreader subscriptions via OPML . Winer closed this service in January 2008.

Rebooting the news

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

See also

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Dave Winer: Getting back to New York . In: Scripting News . June 20, 2010. Retrieved June 30, 2010.
  2. ↑ Dave Winer: Spindler Speaks! . In: DaveNet . December 27, 1994. Retrieved June 10, 2009.
  3. ↑ Dave Winer's Personal Website: Curriculum Vitae
  4. ↑ a b c Michael Swaine: Calling Apple's Bluff . In: Dr. Dobb's , September 1, 1991. Retrieved June 8, 2009. 
  5. ↑ Erik Sandberg-Diment: 'First idea processor' . In: New York Times , May 17, 1983. Retrieved May 10, 2009. 
  6. ↑ Erik Sandberg-Diment: New Software for making note scribbling easier . In: New York Times , April 1, 1986. Retrieved June 4, 2009. 
  7. ^ Dave Winer: Get up, and do it again . In: DaveNet . April 12, 1995. Archived from the original on March 19, 2012. Retrieved on June 8, 2009.
  8. ^ A b Dave Winer: Outliners & Programming . In: Userland . 1988. Archived from the original on December 2, 2000. Retrieved on August 15, 2008.
  9. ^ Eddy Awards 1986 . In: MacUser . 1986. Archived from the original on February 14, 2001. Retrieved on May 19, 2009.
  10. ^ Esther Dyson: Critical Mass . In: Release 1.0 , July 9, 1987. Retrieved June 8, 2009. 
  11. ^ Software Units Plan to Merge . In: New York Times , July 9, 1987. Retrieved June 4, 2009. 
  12. ↑ a b Paulina Borsook: Keeping the faith . In: Upside . 8, No. 11, November 1996, ISSN  1052-0341 , pp. 102-108.
  13. ↑ a b Scott Rosenberg: The unedited voice of a person: Dave Winer . In: Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters , eBook. Edition, Crown, New York June 16, 2009, ISBN 978-0-307-45138-5 , p. 50.
  14. ^ 50 For The Future . In: Newsweek , February 27, 1995. Archived from the original on October 5, 2012. Retrieved on May 10, 2009. 
  15. ↑ a b c d Scott Rosenberg: The unedited voice of a person: Dave Winer . In: Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters , eBook. Edition, Crown, New York June 16, 2009, ISBN 978-0-307-45138-5 , p. 59.
  16. ^ Rudolf Ammann: Jorn Barger, the NewsPage network and the emergence of the weblog community . In: Proceedings of the 20th ACM conference on hypertext and hypermedia . ACM, Turin, Italy 2009, ISBN 978-1-60558-486-7 , pp. 279-288, doi : 10.1145 / 1557914.1557962 (accessed July 15, 2009).
  17. ^ The Seybold Institute . In: Seybold Seminars . 1997. Archived from the original on October 18, 1997. Retrieved May 23, 2010.
  18. ^ David Morgenstern: Frontier blazing Internet trail . In: MacWeek , June 26, 1998. Archived from the original on June 18, 2000. Retrieved May 31, 2010. 
  19. ↑ Dan Gillmor: Small portals prove that size matters . In: San Jose Mercury News , December 6, 1998. Retrieved July 20, 2010. 
  20. ^ Tim O'Reilly: Blogging and the Wisdom of Crowds , O'Reilly and Associates. September 30, 2005. Archived from the original on May 18, 2006. Retrieved January 29, 2007. 
  21. ^ Winer, Dave: Scripting News in XML . In: Scripting News . December 15, 1997. Retrieved October 31, 2006.
  22. ↑ RSS 2.0 specification
  23. ↑ Old data update tool gains new converts , CNET News. March 20, 2003. Retrieved January 26, 2007. 
  24. ↑ NYTimes.com Expands Its RSS feeds to 27 Categories , New York Times (press release). July 20, 2004. Retrieved January 26, 2007. 
  25. ^ Dan Gillmor: The Read-Write Web . In: We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People 2004 (accessed May 31, 2010).
  26. ↑ a b c d Edward Cone: Almost Famous . In: Wired , May 2001. Retrieved May 13, 2009. 
  27. ↑ Jon Udell: Top ten technology innovators: Dave Winer . In: Infoworld . February 27, 2002. Archived from the original on November 4, 2004. Retrieved on May 13, 2009.
  28. ↑ Dave Winer: An untold story of UserLand . In: Scripting News . March 12, 2007. Retrieved August 8, 2008.
  29. ↑ KC Jones: NowPublic Lists Silicon Valley's Most Influential Web Voices . In: Information Week , July 31, 2008. Retrieved May 11, 2009. 
  30. ^ John Markoff: An Internet Critic Who Is Not Shy About Ruffling the Big Names in High Technology . In: New York Times , April 9, 2001. Retrieved May 9, 2009. 
  31. ↑ Chris Nolan: Talk is Cheap . In: San Jose Mercury News , October 13, 1997. Retrieved March 20, 2010. 
  32. ↑ Dave Winer: What is an Agent? . In: DaveNet . January 2, 1995. Retrieved February 21, 2011.
  33. ↑ Still Cool Archive . In: Cool Site of the Day . March 1995. Retrieved February 24, 2011.
  34. ↑ Jerry Michalski: What's a zine? . In: Release 1.0 , June 23, 1995, pp. 1-24. Retrieved February 23, 2008. 
  35. ^ Dan Gillmor: From Tom Paine to Blogs and Beyond . In: We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People 2004 (accessed May 13, 2009).
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  37. ^ Rudolf Ammann: Scripting News: Launched on February 1, 1997 . In: Tawawa . March 27, 2010. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
  38. ^ Dan Mitchell: A Bubble Watcher Watches Google . In: New York Times , December 2, 2006. Retrieved May 10, 2009. 
  39. ^ Scott Gilbertson: A DIY Data Manifesto . In: Webmonkey . February 3, 2011. Retrieved March 5, 2011.
  40. ^ Scott Rosenberg: The unedited voice of a person: Dave Winer . In: Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters , eBook. Edition, Crown, New York June 16, 2009, ISBN 978-0-307-45138-5 , p. 58.
  41. ^ Paul Festa: Newsmaker: Blogging comes to Harvard as , CNET . February 25, 2003. Retrieved January 25, 2007. 
  42. ↑ Jay Rosen: Dave Winer, Welcome to NYU . In: Rebooting the News , January 14, 2010. Archived from the original on December 20, 2010. Retrieved January 21, 2011. 
  43. ^ "24 Hours In Democracy" Protests Telecom Act . In: Newsbytes , February 22, 1996. 
  44. ^ Next Step on the Net . In: The Washington Post , February 26, 1996, p. A18. 
  45. ↑ Dave Winer: EditThisPage.Com . In: DaveNet . December 8, 1999. Retrieved June 10, 2009.
  46. ^ Dave Winer, How to Make Money on the Internet v2.0 . In: DaveNet . February 13, 2001. Retrieved June 10, 2009.
  47. ^ Susan A. Kitchens: Bye bye, (free) Editthispage! . In: 20/20 Hindsight . November 28, 2005. Retrieved June 10, 2009.
  48. ↑ Tony Long: This Day In Tech . In: Wired , October 16, 2009. Retrieved March 5, 2011. 
  49. ↑ Dave Winer: An occasional podcast . In: Morning Coffee Notes . Archived from the original on July 7, 2009. Retrieved June 12, 2009.
  50. ^ Staci D Kramer: Two Cities, Two Gatherings for Two Kinds of Content Creators . In: Online Journalism Review , November 19, 2004. Retrieved August 17, 2008. 
  51. ↑ Timothy Lord: Hosting Service Closes 3000 Blogs Without Notice . In: Slashdot . June 15, 2004. Retrieved May 11, 2009.
  52. ↑ Timothy Lord: Slashback: Munich, Harlan, Alacrity . In: Slashdot . June 17, 2005. Retrieved May 11, 2009.
  53. ^ Staci D Kramer: Weblogs.com Rises From the Flames . In: Wired , June 23, 2004. Retrieved August 8, 2008. 
  54. ↑ Michael Calore: Best Blogfights of 2006 . In: Wired , March 1, 2007. Retrieved August 8, 2008. 
  55. ↑ Ryan Naraine: VeriSign Acquires Dave Winer's Weblogs.com . In: eWeek.com , October 6, 2005. Retrieved May 8, 2009.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.eweek.com
  56. ↑ Michael Arrington: Share Your OPML . In: TechCrunch . May 7, 2006. Retrieved June 8, 2009.
  57. ↑ Dave Winer: Share.opml.org, retired . In: Scripting News . January 23, 2008. Retrieved June 8, 2009.
  58. ↑ Tim Windsor: Rebooting The News: Dave Winer and Jay Rosen on saving journalism . In: Nieman Journalism Lab . April 20, 2009. Retrieved January 22, 2011.
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