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| Feb 15, 2014 | Producers and Consumers on Social Media | I’m making a concerted effort to start blogging again on a more frequent basis. It’s not that I have suddenly discovered lots of free time. However, I’ve decided that it’s time to change priorities.
In my attempt to keep up with the demand... |
| Jul 2, 2012 | In Closing Its Platform, Twitter Risks Destroying Its Community | After attaining unlikely success as an open platform, Twitter is demanding that third-party apps show Twitter’s stream the way the company wants them to. “You need to be able to see expanded Tweets,” Product Manager Michael Sippey wrote in ... |
| Nov 15, 2011 | What’s In A Domain Name? Twitter Wants Twittter.com, Twittr.com | Twitter was recently successful in obtaining the domain name Twiter.com after filing a dispute with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and has apparently grown an appetite for more.
Last week, the company filed a complaint... |
| Nov 7, 2011 | With $1.5 million investment Google Ventures thinks Milk will make a splash | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Google Ventures has invested $1.5 million into mobile application development studio Milk, the new project from Digg co-founder Kevin R... |
| Nov 7, 2011 | With $1.5 million investment Google Ventures thinks Milk will make a splash | Google Ventures has invested $1.5 million into mobile application development studio Milk, the new project from Digg co-founder Kevin Rose. The investment is both strategic and pragmatic, and will help the startup to build out its team with... |
| Oct 27, 2011 | 4 Strategies for Managing Your Online Brand | In the late 90s, Tom Peters famously declared that we were all CEOs of our personal brands. In Fast Company he wrote:
“Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand th... |
| Sep 23, 2011 | How To #FollowFriday | Overwhelmed by new features? Tickers? Open Graphs? What about Hangouts and Circles? Well, Twitter doesn’t have those things. Twitter still exists because it’s not going bananas with new features all the time. There’s no room. Hell, it only ... |
| Aug 23, 2011 | Identity, Authentication, and Provisioning Them Online | Christina jotted down some thoughts on indentity on a flight to SF and I read them this morning. In her post, she references Ev's excellent post on the same topic from a while back. So I went on a bike ride as the sun rose over the east end... |
| Jun 29, 2011 | Biz Stone Quits Twitter -- the Last Co-Founder to Go | Co-founder Biz Stone is leaving Twitter. He still plans "to work with the company for many years to come," according to a post on his blog. More of Stone's time will now go to relaunching The Obvious Corporation, which gave birth ... |
| Jun 28, 2011 | Biz Stone Steps Back From Twitter To Relaunch Obvious With Ev Williams And Jason Goldman | Twitter co-founder Biz Stone took some time to blog today a bit about his past. He goes back to Xanga, then Blogger/Google, then (though not directly mentioned) Odeo. He talks about how after they failed to sell Odeo, Evan Williams created ... |
| Apr 4, 2011 | Milk: Kevin Rose's New Company Aims to Solve Big Problems on the Mobile Web | Well by Silicon Valley standards, that certainly wasn’t a long “stealth” period. Just weeks after he quit Digg, Kevin Rose is announcing details of his new startup. Knowing Rose, I can tell why he’s so excited to get started. He’s construct... |
| Mar 30, 2011 | Founders & CEOs on Jack Dorsey’s Return to Twitter | While Twitter’s “days of imminent technical meltdown” may be in the past, the company has run into a host of other troubles in recent months. As a part of its efforts to monetize and stabilize its once shaky servers, the company has sent si... |
| Mar 30, 2011 | It's Ultimately About The Team | There's a culture of celebrity around founders in the tech business and certainly the Twitter founders are no exception. @jack, @ev, and @biz are celebrities and deservedly so. But you can't build a company all by yourself, or even as a tri... |
| Mar 30, 2011 | Evan Williams leaves Twitter to @jack and co. | Former founder, CEO and head of product at Twitter leaves former digs to bright, unpaved future
One classic tweeter in, one classic tweeter out.
Just a day after Twitter’s original chief executive Jack Dorsey revealed that he will be return... |
| Mar 29, 2011 | What’s Ev Williams working on that’s “bigger and better” than Twitter? | Ev Williams, the cofounder of microblogging service Twitter, who stepped down as CEO last fall to make way for former COO Dick Costolo, said in a blog post today he is barely engaged in running the company and is focusing on a new, unnamed ... |
| Mar 29, 2011 | Ev Williams States The Obvious: He's No Longer Fully Committed To Twitter; Thinking About What's Next | As we confirmed yesterday, Evan WIlliams is taking a step back from his day to day duties at Twitter. Williams just published a post, titled ‘An Obvious Next Step’ on his personal blog explaining the reasoning behind his decision.
From his ... |
| Jan 8, 2010 | TweetDeck for iPhone Now Supports Lists and Geotagging | TweetDeck‘s iPhone app just got a much-needed update. Version 1.3 brings a slew of new features that finally puts TweetDeck back on par with its competitors on the iPhone. The app now supports Twitter lists and Twitter’s new geotagging API.... |
| Nov 23, 2009 | What Apps Should Twitter Acquire? | According to a statement made today by Twitter’s co-founder Biz Stone, the company is interested in acquiring more companies to expand upon their current core set of features. At a news conference held in Tel Aviv, Stone was quoted as sayin... |
| Nov 11, 2009 | Simple Is As Simple Does: The Risk Of Retweet | Despite starting Blogger, Evan Williams rarely blogs. But yesterday, for the first time in several months, he decided to put the digital pen to the digital paper in order to lay out his thoughts for Twitter’s new Retweet functionality. It’s... |
| Nov 11, 2009 | Twitter temporarily disables retweets amid some bugs | Twitter has temporarily suspended its new retweet feature as some problems are plaguing the launch. They’ll continue the rollout shortly once they iron out the kinks.
The company reported:
We’re working on a few problems related to the ongo... |
| Nov 11, 2009 | Twitter temporarily disables retweets amid some bugs | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Twitter has temporarily suspended its new retweet... |
| Nov 11, 2009 | 5 O’Clock Roundup: Twitter adds built-in retweet, Facebook programmer quits iPhone app | (Tonight’s roundup is foreshortened so we can go meet with attendees at i9 NewTeeVee conference.)
Twitter finally added a built-in retweet button today — Co-founder Evan Williams posted a long blog entry explaining the company’s thinking. T... |
| Feb 23, 2009 | Twitter Track is Back Thanks to New Service from Particls | Particls, the one-time RSS feed organizer and alerting service, has today launched a new project they’re calling “Particls Fountain.” Although it’s hinted that the service will eventually do much more, today its goal is simple. Particls Fou... |
| Feb 15, 2009 | Mining The Thought Stream | What if you could peer into the thoughts of millions of people as they were thinking those thoughts or shortly thereafter? And what if all of these thoughts were immediately available in a database that could be mined easily to tell you wha... |
| Dec 17, 2008 | Why Track will be back – Fred Wilson says so | For those of you new to the Web since the end of May, you can be forgiven for having no clue about why Track is the shit. Despite months of denial, an open source clone war, a VC-backed API counter offensive, and unknown secret plans to for... |
| Sep 12, 2008 | Evan Williams Gives Day After Notes On TechCrunch50 Companies | Twitter cofounder Evan Williams (pictured right, with Tim O’Reilly) will certainly be invited back as an expert panelist at next year’s TechCrunch50 conference. in addition to taking a half day to judge nine of the launching startups, he wr... |
| Jun 19, 2007 | Google buys Zenter, powerpoint for the browser | Google has just acquired Zenter, software that aimed to be a web-based Powerpoint-killer.
Zenter built the application in just a few months, and the company was one of the more dynamic Y Combinator-backed companies from this past winter: Th... |
| Feb 21, 2007 | Roundup: OpenID, Rupture, Startupping, Confabb, Trulia and more | Here’s the latest action:
OpenID is gaining ground — OpenID is a service that lets you use your URL as your username anytime you have to login to a site that requires username and password. Until now, it has been slow to catch on — Web site... |
| Dec 27, 2006 | 2007: The End Of The Page View | Recently there was ‘big news’, Myspace had passed Yahoo! in monthly page views. I put the words big news in quotes because it really wasn’t as big news as it was made out to be.
It’s common wisdom that Myspace is designed to generate a ton ... |
| Oct 29, 2006 | The Parallel Entrepreneur | a place for the claustrophobic
Originally uploaded by slight clutter.
You hear about serial entrepreneurs all the time, people who start company after company. We love to back people like that and have done that five times already in our cu... |
| Oct 26, 2006 | It's Obvious | I really like what Evan is doing with Obvious Corp.
I know plenty of entrepreneurs who have a number of ideas rattling around in their brain and want to build something where they can operate in parallel instead of in serial.
I don’t have t... |
| Oct 25, 2006 | Odeo Bought Back From Investors | Odeo as we know it is gone. After announcing itself in February 2005, the company raised a $5 million venture financing with Charles River Ventures and a bevy of angel investors. After a private beta period, the company launched in July 200... |
| Dec 2, 2005 | Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 26 Nov – 2 Dec 2005 | Note: The Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-Up is back with a new publishing day (Fri) and a new
format, a countdown of the Top Ten Web 2.0 issues or news stories of the past week. Also I’m
on the lookout for a new sponsor for the Weekly Wrap-Up. It’s ha... |
| Nov 30, 2005 | RSS Everywhere II – but where is Google? | Last night Yahoo! announced they are integrating RSS into their web mail and
alerts products. As Scott Gatz explained in an interview
with PodTech: Yahoo’s plan, which started in January 2004 when they launched RSS
in the My Yahoo portal, i... |
| Nov 29, 2005 | 10 Rules For Web Startups | Evan Williams of Odeo has a great ten rules list up on his blog for web startups. If you are doing a startup of any kind, give it a read. It’s very good.
Many of these rules have been said before by others, but that doesn’t mean that they a... |
| Aug 17, 2005 | Blogging from Word | Several years ago, we took a friend of ours who was publishing her little weekly Web site with Microsoft Word and an FTP program and dragged her kicking and screaming into the world of blogging. It wasn’t easy. She was ultra comfortable usi... |
| Aug 10, 2005 | And Odeo gets funded, too | We mentioned the VC funding of PodShow this morning. Ev Williams chimes in to announce that his podcasting start-up Odeo was just funded as well. Odeo is local. Charles River Ventures led the deal, along with some local tech notables, inclu... |
| Jun 13, 2005 | Odeo Profile | Company: Odeo
Location: San Francisco
Status: Private Beta
What is it?
Odeo will be a a podcast service that lets users search, find, and subscribe to podcasts, as well as a tool to create your own podcasts with minimal hardware. Odeo is bu... |
| Feb 28, 2005 | Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 21-27 Feb 2005 | This week: AP’s RSS feeds, Enterprise RSS developments
(Newsgator, Nooked), professional bloggers (Kottke, Darren Rowse), Odeo (podcasting),
Ajax. p.s. headers in honour of the Oscars. Best Use of RSS Feeds by a News Collective
And the winn... |
| Feb 28, 2005 | Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 21-27 Feb 2005 | This week: AP’s RSS feeds, Enterprise RSS developments
(Newsgator, Nooked), professional bloggers (Kottke, Darren Rowse), Odeo (podcasting),
Ajax. p.s. headers in honour of the Oscars.
Best Use of RSS Feeds by a News Collective
And the winn... |
| Feb 25, 2005 | Podcasting, Incorporated | The amount of hype that’s gone into the whole concept of “podcasting” lately is a bit scary. Whether you believe that podcasting represents the next great revolution in personal expression or simply a retread of earlier ideas with a fresh c... |
| Oct 4, 2004 | Ev and Google part ways | Ev Williams, one of the pioneers of the blogging industry, is leaving Google, and more significantly, the company he helped create. Williams’ company Pyra Labs started Blogger five years ago. The service popularized blogging, bringing the i... |
| Feb 2, 2001 | Blogger Is Now A Company Of One | Okay, so I really don’t follow the whole “blogging” world, so this one is a few days late, but it seems that Blogger has now lost all of its employees except one, Evan. Even the famous Meg is gone. Evan claims that he will keep pushing on a... |