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Dave Winer

Software developer

  • Audience1K
  • Fame55.8
  • Momentum0.0
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1K github followers
  • Audience1K
  • Fame55.8
  • Momentum0.0
  • Developers rank#91
  • Wikipedia1.1K
Born 1955 · age 71United States
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  • Wikipedia
    5 languages
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  • Age
    71
    Born 1955
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Updated 2026-07-17

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.

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55.8
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Historical4.8
Source confidence55.0
Completeness90.0
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Category rank
#91
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