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To his credit, though, unlike many other Web celebs Winer at least has some code to back his ego. Twitter has ways to before its impact is comparable to RSS.
by nir 17y ago
To his credit, though, unlike many other Web celebs Winer at least has some code to back his ego. Twitter has ways to before its impact is comparable to RSS.
- yayeditor 17y agoIt's worth noting that the TechCrunch article goes so far as to call out RSS (again), as seen through the eyes of Twitter. "Don't just connect RSS feed," the notes read. "What if all feeds went through twitter: would be expensive." But Winer's also probably alluding to the "we're creating a new Internet" vibe that's so palpable in Twitter's notes. The Twitter meeting notes: http://cache0.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/tw-strat-feeds.png http://cache0.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/tw-s...
- kragen 17y agoSure, but Dave Winer didn't invent RSS, and the code he wrote (Userland Frontier) was never very widely used, and is now used by almost nobody. It was visionary — it kind of defined what we now call the CMS — but it wasn't well executed.