He is co-developer of Frontier, Manila and Radio UserLand. The company hosts several thousand Web sites using these tools and has pioneered several Internet standards in distributed computing, including SOAP, XML-RPC, RSS and OPML. He is the editor of the pioneering Scripting News weblog.

A software industry veteran, Winer also produced award-winning commercial software products at Living Videotext, merged with Symantec in 1987. He was a contributing editor at Wired in the mid-90s and in 1997 was chosen as a Seybold Fellow for his pioneering work in Web-based publishing systems. In 2001 Wired Magazine honored him with the top award for his work on SOAP. Winer is also a member of the Board of Advisors of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).