DeWitt Clinton

Source: http://scobleizer.com/2009... - DeWitt Clinton

"Hey, I'm that "Google guy," so I should probably respond... Here's the Twitter comment that started this: http://twitter.com/dewitt... It read, "If @davewiner stopped equating distributed open networks with RSS and OPML specifically, he'd immediately unify a huge community." But first I want to clarify something. I was speaking as a technologist and software engineer, as someone who is working to build a distributed open web (http://openwebfoundation.org/2009......), and as someone is actually a rather ardent supporter of Dave Winer and his work. What I wasn't doing, however, was speaking on behalf of my employer, at least not intentionally. So I frankly found it more than a little disconcerting that Dave immediately responded with "To @dewitt -- your employer is out of synch with the world, not the other way. I'm doing you a favor by pulling you back to where we all are." I hadn't mentioned Google at all, so I felt it unfair to attack my employer rather than..." - DeWitt Clinton

Brizzly needs to acquire FriendFeed! ;) - Amit Patel

Amit: Yes, a small "ff" icon next to the " f" one would be really nice :) - Vlado Handziski

Yes. Think SMTP. - Daniel Dulitz

"Fair enough, I can see your perspective about RSS relative to Atom. I will disagree that Atom didn't add several very important technical improvements. I wrote about a few of them here a few years ago (before joining Google, in fact) and it turns out that those improvements are essential to enable certain advancements in the federate stream: http://blog.unto.net/work... Hope that helps clarify why I think Atom is important, and why I think it would be awesome if you'd support it as well. Thanks, Dave! -DeWitt" - DeWitt Clinton

So far I've liked everything about App Engine except the datastore. - Amit Patel

Nope, I still feel nostalgia for my vic20/c-64 days(http://www.john-crow.co.uk/Compute...) - Ray Cromwell

You're showing your age, Ray. Probably about the same as mine :) That mac was 512x384, right? What were the VIC 20 and C64 in "high resolution" mode? - Joel Webber

320x240 for C-64, ~160x160 for Vic-20 (it only had character mode, but you could emulate a bitmap mode by poking bits in the font's bitmaps). I was definitely a child of Commodore in the early days. Prior to the Vic-20 (my first real computer), I had Atari 2600, Intellivision, Coleco, etc - Ray Cromwell