Home > Archive >  2009 >  August >  13

Custom browser for Facebook

Thursday, August 13, 2009 by Dave Winer.

A picture named silo.gifMarshall Kirkpatrick, my partner in the Bad Hair podcast, has a scoop worthy of comment on Scripting News.  Permalink to this paragraph

Apparently Marc Andreessen, the founder of Netscape and a new venture capitalist, is backing a venture to create a custom browser for Facebook. Permalink to this paragraph

There are many millions of people who would go for this, it's a no-brainer. Permalink to this paragraph

On the other hand, it's a throwback to an earlier era -- AOL also had its own browser. Helps cement Facebook's position as the AOL for this decade. Permalink to this paragraph

The silo gets cushier, but it's still a silo. A picture named sidesmiley.gif Permalink to this paragraph

Marshall goes on to say "it's contrary to the growing storm of support building for a distributed framework for social networking." Amen to that.  Permalink to this paragraph

http://rsscloud.org/  Permalink to this paragraph

BTW, we have a great pair of guests for our podcast, live this evening at 7PM Pacific. Details forthcoming. Permalink to this paragraph




 
   Recent stories


A picture named dave.jpgDave Winer, 54, pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in Berkeley, California.

"The protoblogger." - NY Times.

"The father of modern-day content distribution." - PC World.

One of BusinessWeek's 25 Most Influential People on the Web.

"Helped popularize blogging, podcasting and RSS." - Time.

"The father of blogging and RSS." - BBC.

"RSS was born in 1997 out of the confluence of Dave Winer's 'Really Simple Syndication' technology, used to push out blog updates, and Netscape's 'Rich Site Summary', which allowed users to create custom Netscape home pages with regularly updated data flows." - Tim O'Reilly.

http://twitter.com/davewiner



Dave Winer Mailto icon



© Copyright 1994-2009 Dave Winer Mailto icon.

Last update: 8/13/2009; 9:53:57 PM Pacific. "It's even worse than it appears."

Click here to view blogs commenting on  RSS 2.0 feed.