Dave Winer
Dave Winer
Dave Winer is an American software developer, entrepreneur, and writer who resides in New York City. Winer is noted for his contributions to outliners, scripting, content management, and web services, as well as blogging and podcasting. He is the founder of the software companies Living Videotext, Userland Software and Small Picture Inc., a former contributing editor for the Web magazine HotWired, the author of the Scripting News weblog, a former research fellow at Harvard Law School, and current visiting scholar...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth2 May 1955
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.
The infrastructure of the US is a long-term suspension of disbelief that such things won't be exploded deliberately by people who don't create anything.
OK, he's a Yankees fan. Now I know why I don't like him.
If you need the approval of the platform vendor to ship an app, then it isn't a platform.
To create a usable piece of software, you have to fight for every fix, every feature, every little accommodation that will get one more person up the curve. There are no shortcuts. Luck is involved, but you don't win by being lucky, it happens because you fought for every inch.
Advertising will get more and more targeted until it disappears, because perfectly targeted advertising is just information.