Eye on Winer

Dave Winer posted the following entry today on Scripting News before sending it down the memory hole:

Did I invent photocasting and catching?

Well, no I didn’t. And you can quote me on that.

There are quite a few apps that run on desktops that read RSS feeds with either picture enclosures or media-rss enclosures. They all seem to coordinate with, or are screen savers. (FlickrFan falls into the first category, it’s not a screen saver, and people who say it is are wrong.)

But I’ll tell you this, mark my words, I will make this a big deal, I will get major content companies on board, and I will spawn competition, and invigorate the existing products, and when it’s done, a lot more pictures will be flowing to a lot more living rooms, laptops and desktops because of the work I am doing.

I wasn’t the first podcaster either, I think that honor goes to Steve Gillmor and Chris Lydon. But when I started podcasting in the summer of 2004, a lot more people saw that they could do it because I showed them how, I made it my business to demystify it, and because I’m so obviously an amateur (if he can do it so can I).

And, as with podcasting, the technology for this stuff was my creation.

The post was republished by Planet PGC before deletion.

Long bet: Two weeks from today, even Scoble won’t be talking about this application.

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