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Your river in a box!

By Dave Winer on Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 2:02 PM.

A picture named tales.gifIf this were something Apple did, Steve would call it "magical." Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Instead, I'm going to say it's rational. And --> It Works™.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

A new feature in River2 today, the first developed entirely in NYC, makes it easy to set up so that your river is rendered into the Public sub-folder of your Dropbox, for you or anyone else to browse. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

It wasn't my idea, it came from a smart user thinking outside the box. Not too hard to make work and it's fun. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Here's my public river. It's updated by the copy of River2 running on my MacBook Pro. Nothing fancy, no servers, just an app writing an HTML file into a folder that's managed by the very elegant and useful Dropbox. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

And here's the writeup of the feature.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

The code was released today. <img src="> Permanent link to this item in the archive.




  
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A picture named dw.jpgDave Winer, 55, is a visiting scholar at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He 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 New York City.

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