# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dave-winer
# Generated: 2026-09-06T19:11:50.706Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dave-winer"
name: "Dave Winer"
slug: "dave-winer"
description: "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 at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute."
tagline: "Software developer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Winer_by_Joi_Ito.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1955-05-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.839348
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 91
totalFollowers: 1014
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/davewiner"
    handle:    "davewiner"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/dave.winer.12"
    handle:    "dave.winer.12"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/scripting/"
    handle:    "scripting"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://davewiner.com/"
  - platform:  "GITHUB"
    url:       "https://github.com/scripting"
    handle:    "scripting"
    followers: 1014
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Winer"
    title: "Dave Winer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Winer"
    title: "Dave Winer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Winer"
    title: "Dave Winer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Winer"
    title: "Dave Winer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%88%DB%8C%D9%88_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "ڈیو وائنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1173391"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump