Dave Winer

Pioneer in the development of weblogs, RSS, and web content management, Winer has been a leading web writer and innovator since the early days of the internet.

In 1979, Winer worked for Personal Software, developing a product of his own idea called VisiText, which was later acquired by Apple and used for ThinkTank.

Winer founded Userland Software in 1988, which jointly developed XML-RPC with Microsoft.