Our very ownBorisVeldhuijzen van Zanten took the stage today atThe Next Web Conferencein Amsterdam to interviewDave Winer, whom he calls “The Father of the Real-Time Web”. In case you’ve never heard of the man, Winer wrote the first blogging software, invented RSS and podcasting, and is a visiting scholar at NYU in journalism. “I wanted to create stuff and I always thought that computers should be used for creation. That led me to blogging because I had ideas and wanted to get them out there to the world....

Dave Winer is one of the keynote speakers atThe Next Web Conference 2011. He wrote the first blogging software, invented RSS and podcasting and is a visiting scholar at NYU in journalism. He blogs atScripting.com. I chatted with David about Twitter, ‘Blorking’, the future of blogging and his upcoming talk atTNW2011. Boris: You developed the first blogging software. What year was that?Dave Winer: In 1996 or 1994. It depends.Boris: Depends on what?...

This video was bought to you bySitePenandViadeo. Last week I was in Washington DC where I caught up with some startups, including Peter LaMotte, president ofGeniusRocket– a company that connects artists and creatives with brands that need high end media. What makes GenuiusRocket different from crowdsourcing sites such a 99Designs or Elance is the talent does not bid on the project, GeniusRocket has a pre-vetted community of artists and small production companies who are approved for quality assurance....

This video was bought to you bySitePenandViadeo. I caught up with Paul Gleger of Washington DC based startupHotPadslast week, HotPads is a map-based real estate search engine listing apartments and houses for rent, homes for sale, and foreclosures. If you have not played with their interactive map yet, I suggest you do now as it totally changes the way you search for property, Besides price and location of property you can also search the heat map for population density and per capita income, with results provided in color coded keys....

The concept of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks has entered the mainstream public consciousness after huge websites likeChange.org,WordPress, and severalgovernmentandnewswebsites from different countries have recently been victims to a series of attacks. Dubbed the modern instrument of cyber-war, a quick and simple way to describe DDoS is that under the tactic, malicious codes infect computers to trigger mass attacks against targeted websites, causing it to be inaccessible to legitimate traffic....