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The Irony of the Social Media Era: It Was Created By the World's Least Social People

Sarah Lacy | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Mark Zuckerberg, Social Media, Mark Zuckerberg Facebook, Facebook, Social Networks, Social Networking, Peter Thiel, Sarah Lacy, Twitter, Buy This Book Before You Buy Facebook, Facebook IPO, Marc Andreessen, Evan Williams, Technology News
Sarah Lacy

After one particularly awful question, Zuckerberg broke down like a cartoon robot that simply could not compute. His eyes darted from place to place. He furrowed his brow and looked up after several moments of silence. 404 error. I had crashed Mark Zuckerberg.

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Getting the News -- Evan Williams

Michael_Young | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: News Discovery, Media, Twitter, Evan Williams, Technology, News, News Diet, Media News
Michael_Young

This week we bring you Evan Williams, co-founder of Twitter and Blogger, and partner at Obvious Corporation. Evan's accomplishments are so great as to be almost preposterous.

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A Sneak Peek At Twitter Co-Founders' New Social Network

The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Social Startups, Video, Lift Biz Stone, Biz Stone, Lift, Twitter Cofounders, Obvious Corporation, Evan Williams, Ev Williams, Technology News

Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams have a new social networking project: Lift. Earlier this year, Stone and Williams left Twitter to f...

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Google Axes Blogger And Picasa Brands

The Huffington Post | Alana Horowitz | Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: Google, Blogger, Twitter, Google Plus, Google+, Social Network, Youtube, Branding, Evan Williams, Picasa, Rebranding, Technology News

Google will axe two popular brand names, Mashable has reported. Blogger and Picasa will be renamed as part of a branding push following the releas...

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WATCH: What's Next For The Internet? Twitter Founders Chime In

The Huffington Post | Ryan Grenoble | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Obvious Corporation, Aspen Ideas Festival, Evan Williams, Twitter, Future of the Internet, Internet-Startup Advice, Future-of-Twitter, Biz Stone, Denver News

Evan Williams and Biz Stone, the two founders of Twitter, showed up at the Aspen Ideas Fest this week in Colorado. The duo discussed the future of th...

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Social Media Service Bites The Dust

The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 07.20.2011

Read More: Blippy, Social Media, Evan Williams, Ashvin Kumar, Blippy Credit Cards, Technology News

How would you like to share each of your purchases on Twitter? As it turns out, most users wouldn't. Deemed the "Twitter for credit cards," Bl...

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Trouble @Twitter

Fortune Tech | Posted 06.14.2011

Read More: Twitter News, Jack Dorsey, Twitter Strategy, Twitter, Twitter Ceo, Twitter Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Technology News

There's no shortage of drama at Twitter these days: Besides the CEO shuffles, there are secret board meetings, executive power struggles, a plethora o...

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How Twitter Was Hatched

Business Insider | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Twitter, Evan Williams, Twitter Founders, Evan Williams Twitter, Twitter Investors, Technology News

How Twitter's owners and top executives say Twitter was founded is different than how Twitter was actually founded. Mainly, the official version l...

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'Bourbon Women' Organize, Demand Recognition As Whiskey Drinkers

AP | By BRUCE SCHREINER | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Gender Marketing, Whiskey, Cocktails, Heaven Hill Distilleries, Bourbon Women, Alcohol, Jim Beam, Bourbon, Evan Williams, Kentucky Bourbon, Maker's Mark, Food News

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Marketing executive Peggy Noe Stevens sticks to basics when savoring Kentucky bourbon – no splash of water, just ice, stacked...

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Twitter Co-Founder Steps Back From Company

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 05.30.2011

Read More: Twitter Ev Williams, Evan Williams, Twitter, Ev Williams, Twitter Evan Williams, Technology News

It's been an eventful week at Twitter. Evan Williams, co-founder and former CEO of the micro-blogging service, announced in a post on his personal ...

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Twitter's Paul Steele: Blazing a Trail of Greatness

2morrowknight | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Twitter, Evan Williams, Twitter News, Nonprofit, Jeff Pulver, Charity, Mera Peak, Outdoors, The Anthony Nolan Trust, Travel News, Paul Steele, Jack Dorsey, Adventure, Biz Stone, Twitterpowerhouses, Himalayas, Twittersingups, Global, World Travel, International, Impact News
2morrowknight

From London to Lagos, Lima to Los Angeles, Steele's impact has been tremendous. He is greatly respected for his adventures that raise much needed funds for charities and nonprofits.

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PHOTOS: The Homes Of America's Top Tech Titans

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Larry Ellison, Meg Whitman, Zillow, Jim Clark, Tech Titans, Steve Jobs, Mark Cuban, Eric Schmidt, Mark Zuckerberg, Tech Titans Homes, Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Evan Williams, Slidepollajax, Technology News

We recently learned that Steve Jobs was planning to tear down his 1920s Spanish Colonial Revival mansion and build a more modest domicile in its place...

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Twitter Gets A New CEO #NewTwitterCEO

The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Twitter Coo, #Newtwitterceo, New Twitter Ceo, Evan Williams, Dick Costolo, Twitter Ceo, Technology News

Twitter COO Dick Costolo is replacing Evan Williams as the CEO of Twitter, the company announced in a blog post Monday. Evan Williams wrote, The c...

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What Nurtures Leaders Who Have Bold Ideas? A Report from the Aspen Institute Ideas Festival

Ellen Galinsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Greg Mortenson, Mind in the Making, Aspen Ideas Festival, Evan Williams, Sir Ken Robinson, John Guare, Marc Tucker, Biz Stone, Impact News
Ellen Galinsky

Let's assume that the people invited to present at the 2010 Aspen Institute Ideas Festival have important ideas to share. There are important things we can learn from their own career paths: how did they become people with "bold ideas?"

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Gov 2.0 and #Twitter Finally Tweet-Up!

Alan W. Silberberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White House, Gov 2.0, Government Relations, Washington, Politics, Paramount Pictures, Union Square, Fred Wilson, Alan W. Silberberg, Evan Williams, Government 2.0, Dc, Andrew P. Wilson, Adriel Hampton, Govtwit, Technology News
Alan W. Silberberg

Twitter needs a Government Relations expert who also is a social media expert. Not the other way around.

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Happy Birthday Twitter

2morrowknight | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global Citizen, Culture, Twitter Powerhouse, 140 Characters, Social Networking, Twitter Anniversary Twitter History, Twitter, Jack Dorsey, Twitter News, Evan Williams, Twitter Birthday, Biz Stone, Technology News
2morrowknight

Twitter has been a bridge to amazing cultures, a platform for innovation, and an empowering vision of what it means to be a global citizen.

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Best Worst Dressed Brands of SXSW Interactive (and a Film I Love)

Alona Elkayam | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ikea, Justine Bateman, Sxsw Austin, Circus, Twitter, Easy to Assemble, Jaron Lanier, Evan Williams, Tiny Furniture. SXSW Film Awards, Illeana Douglas, SXSW INteractive Awards, Umair Haque, Lena Dunham, Wolfram Alpha, Style News
Alona Elkayam

At SXSW 2010 you would have seen swarms of twenty, thirty and forty somethings, with their neck craned and their heads bowed, staring down at mobile devices and computers.

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SXSW: What Got Lost in the Evan Williams Conversation, @anywhere

Christina Gagnier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sxsw 2010, Evan Williams, Twitter, Content, Information, Sxsw, Umair-Haque-Sxsw-2010, Technology News
Christina Gagnier

Twitter has launched @anywhere, which allows users to interact with Twitter from external websites.

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Twitter: 'Suggested Users' List May Be Eliminated,

AP | RACHEL METZ | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Twitter, Evan Williams, Twitter-Lists, Suggested Users List, Twitter Lists, Suggested Users, Twitter Suggested Users, Technology News

SAN FRANCISCO — If you're trying to figure out who to follow on Twitter, you might soon be turning to fellow users for help, rather than the com...

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Twitter Founders Named IWantMedia's 2009 Media Person Of The Year

I Want Media | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: I Want Media, Twitter, Jack Dorsey, Twitter Guys, IWantMedia.Com, Evan Williams, Twitter Founders, Biz Stone, Media Person of the Year 2009, Media Person of the Year, Media News

Twitter Guys Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams are the 2009 Media Persons of the Year, according to the annual online competition held by I Wan...

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Getting Lost in the Land of Twitter

Meredith C. Carroll | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ricky Martin, Sarah Silverman, Kim Kardashian, Michael Ian Black, Blackberry, Twitter, The HIlls, Evan Williams, Facebook, Barack Obama, Gail Collins, David Sedaris, Menudo, The Kardashians, Comedy News
Meredith C. Carroll

Twitter can now count me among its millions of users. What I'm really supposed to be doing on Twitter though, is still a bit of a mystery to me.

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Twitter Growth: U.S. Visitors DOWN In October

techcrunch.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Twitter October Growth, Twitter Visitors, Twitter, Evan Williams, Twitter US Growth, Twitter October, Twitter Growth, Technology News

Ever since last summer, Twitter's growth in the U.S. has been stalling. But in October, the number of people who visited Twitter.com from the U.S. act...

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Glock Around The Clock... Twitter, Guns and Gambling Tarnish US Image

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Adidas, White House, Washington Wizards, Cia, Pete Rose, Leon Panetta, Sebastian Telfair, Ncaa, David Stern, Evan Williams, O'Melveny&Myers, Javaris Crittenton, Bobby Knight, The Wire, Drug Gangs, Ted Williams, Nba, Hip-Hop, Quaker Oats, Dave Bliss, Marines, Twitter, Nfl, Fifa, Brazil, Gangs, Barack Obama, Tsa, Second Amendment, Favelas, Rahm Emanuel, US Marines, Gilbert Arenas, Biz Stone, World News
Eric Ehrmann

With NBA commissioner David Stern suspending Gilbert Arenas, the media has forgotten that this party got started thanks to Twitter.

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Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams Selling $1.5 Million Penthouse (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Williams Penthouse, San Francisco, Evan Williams, Williams Apartment, Heublein Building, Twitter Co-Founder, Slideshow, Evan Williams Sell Home, Twitter Founder Selling Apartment, Twitter Founder Apartment, Technology News

SEE PHOTOS BELOW Twitter co-founder Evan Williams has just listed his San Francisco penthouse loft on the market, asking $1,498,000 for the two-bedro...

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Why It May No Longer Help to Be a Liberal

Soren Gordhamer | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Wisdom 2.0, Buddha, Spirituality, Helath Care, Buddhsim, Twitter, Liberals, Buddhist, Evan Williams, Healthcare Debate, Republicans, Healthy Living News
Soren Gordhamer

Can we step out of our identities that are constantly looking for ways to justify themselves and to put down the other, and open to a deeper presence and wisdom?

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