Evan Williams

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Name:	Evan Williams
Age:	38 (b. 1972)

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Internet

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Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer; Board Member: Twitter

Evan Williams is an American entrepreneur who has founded several Internet companies including Twitter, Blogger and Odeo (later Obvious). Williams overtook the helm at Twitter in 2008 as CEO (from inventor Jack Dorsey). Along with Blogger team Meg Hourihan and Paul Bausch, Williams was named People of the Year by PC Magazine in 2004.

Evan Williams is an American entrepreneur who has founded several Internet companies including Twitter, Blogger and Odeo (later Obvious). Williams overtook the helm at Twitter in 2008 as CEO (from inventor Jack Dorsey).

Along with Blogger team Meg Hourihan and Paul Bausch, Williams was named People of the Year by PC Magazine in 2004.

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3/21/10:

Happy Birthday Twitter!

Sunday, March 21st (a few hours from now on the West Coast) marks Twitter's 4th birthday — exactly four years since Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey sent his first Tweet and, along with Evan Williams and Biz Stone, started a phenomenon.Last month, Twitter hit 50 million Tweets per day, and last ... - read more at Mashable

tags: Twitter Jack Dorsey Biz Stone

3/20/10:

Week in review: Web pioneer bashes Apple, SXSW attendees slams ...

Here's our summary of the week's business and tech news. First, the most popular stories we published in the last seven days: Google pays web pioneer to bash Apple — Tim Bray isn't as well-known as Sir Tim Berners-Lee, but the guy has had a leading role in defining the Internet. When he announced ... - read more at VentureBeat

tags: Apple Twitter Google Facebook Hitwise Sony Spotify Mark Zuckerberg

3/20/10:

2morrowknight: Happy Birthday Twitter

This has to be the sweetest of times for Twitter co-founders Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey. Sunday March 21st marks the fourth anniversary of the social networking, information service that has taken the world by storm. They continue to add features that enhance the experience, and they're ... - read more at Huffington Post

tags: Twitter Jack Dorsey Biz Stone

3/19/10:

Alona Elkayam: Best Worst Dressed Brands of SXSW Interactive ...

We are definitely living in the age of Geek Power. Walking the halls of the circus-themed Austin Convention Center 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, on the floors, ... - read more at Huffington Post

tags: YouTube Facebook Harvard Business Review Twitter

3/19/10:

A Look Back at SXSW 2010

As usual, this year's South by Southwest Interactive conference was a blur. Between the people, the parties, and purveyors of all things bacon, it was a twenty ring circus of the sublime and bizarre. There was no shatteringly impactful takeaway from SXSW 2010, as it seems we've entered a (sure to be ... - read more at WebProNews

tags: ExactTarget Red Bull Twitter technology BazaarVoice

3/18/10:

Spotify Talks Future of Music Delivery at SXSW

I sat in on the Future of Music Delivery Keynote interview with Spotify CEO Daniel Ek and author Eliot Van Buskirk on the last day of SXSW Interactive. Buskirk's covered the digital media industry for ten years in various publications. This keynote was not nearly as crowded as the Evan Williams one ... - read more at WebProNews

tags: Spotify BlackBerry Twitter

3/18/10:

Twitter's @anywhere Could Usher in Big Improvements

Many South by Southwest attendees reportedly walked out halfway through the keynote appearance by Twitter CEO Evan Williams this week citing boredom, but the... - read more at PC World

tags: Twitter

3/17/10:

The Backchannel Has Changed the Game for Conference Panelists

If you follow me on Twitter, you'll occasionally hear me talk about “audience atomization overcome.” I've been using this phrase to describe something that has changed in our word because of the internet. Audience Atomization OvercomeThe people formerly known as the audience, once connected ... - read more at ThinkPress

tags: Twitter Apture.com Matt Thompson Tristan Harris

3/17/10:

Larry Magid: Nobel Peace Prize for the Internet?

It's an odd concept but there is a movement to nominate "the Internet" for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. There's even a Web site, InternetForPeace.org, to advocate that the "Nobel Peace Prize should go to the Net. A Nobel for each and every one of us." There are some heavyweights behind the idea, including ... - read more at Huffington Post

tags: Facebook Giorgio Armani Twitter Mark Zuckerberg Biz Stone

3/17/10:

SXSWi in Quotes

[Gym Class Heroes and Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz at the Ustream Party. Courtesy Nick McGlynn for mediabistro.com/RandomNightOut.com] We're still digging through our notes from SXSW Interactive and wanted to present some of our favorite quotes from the event: "Institutions fight to keep problems that ... - read more at mediabistro.com: PRNewser

tags: Google PepsiCo Facebook Twitter Huffington Post HDNet Foursquare Mark Cuban Dennis Crowley

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