Topic: Evan Williams

New Media Stars Dominate Fortune’s 40 Under 40

Recently, Fortune magazine released its annual list of 40 rising business stars under the age of 40. While there was sure to be a few media gurus in the mix, given today’s focus on social and digital media networks, 16 major players from areas of digital media and online technology are featured – making up 40 percent of the list. From Google and Hulu to Facebook and Twitter, some of business’ most...READ»

Twitter's New Retweet Feature Is Not the Apocalypse

Hey, have you heard? Twitter is changing its Retweet feature, and everyone is complaining about it. Hubspot's Dan Zarella says the feature "could completely eviscerate most of the value out of Retweets." PC Mag's Lance Ulanoff calls ...READ»

The Curious Genius of Twitter

Fast Interview: Co-founder Evan Williams talks about why it helps to have a side project, why he had to leave Google to found Twitter, and why Twitter isn't called Friend Stalker.READ»

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Twitter's New Wine Gets You Drunk on Social Causes

Twitter founder Biz Stone is launching a wineREAD»

Small Business Rags

I started reading Inc. and Entrepreneur Magazines monthly last year.  I like both magazines about equally but for different reasons.  I let my subscription slide on Entrepreneur so I am only going to speak to Inc. Magazine.  ...READ»

Too Many Social Network Updates? Two Tools for Filtering the Nobodies

There are plenty of tools out there for adding "friends" to your social network: Glue lets you connect with others who like the same media and entertainment sites as you, Twinkle lets you discover people tweeting near you, ...READ»

Rumor: Google In Talks to Buy Twitter. [Update] Or Possibly Not

Just last year, Twitter's management turned down a buy-out form social networking giant, Facebook. Now rumors are swirling that Google wants to buy the increasingly popular microblogging service.READ»

Web 2.0: Wish You Were Here

I've been ducking in and out of the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco this week, and it has been pretty consistently great. Just to name drop for a moment: the coffee breaks offered the chance to sip java with the likes of former ...READ»

Why Are the Most Creative People in Business Skipping Out on Web 2.0?

These days, we're all public figures. We're sharing our friends on Facebook, our photos on Flickr, our music on Last.fm, and our goofy links insightful observations on Twitter. So when Fast Company set out to capture ...READ»

The 10 Most Creative People in the Web Business

1. Reed Hastings, Chief Executive Officer, Netflix Reed Hastings could have stuck with his first breakthrough idea--Netflix recently mailed its 2-billionth DVD. Instead, he's swiftly embraced streaming online and direct to TV via ...READ»

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The Week that Twitter Tipped

Twitter has been a-tweet since 2006, but the first three months of 2009 have delivered the micro-blogging service unprecedented traffic, usership and media cachet. In the parlance of mad-haired Gladwell disciples, Twitter is ...READ»

What Are you Doing?

What are you doing? This is the opening dialogue box I am greeted with when logging into the Twitter. The question is precisely the best way to describe the service. It is a messaging tool and community that connects you to your ...READ»

Internet/Web: The Weekend I Got Pownced

This weekend I was whisked into the thrilling world of a private beta launch of a new Web 2.0 site, started by Digg founder Kevin Rose. A select few had invites, and they used a pay-it-forward system for sharing entry into Pownce. I ...READ»

Facebook Tries to Buy Twitter. Are They Insane?

While Adobe cuts jobs and scales back expectations, Facebook hungers for more capital and tries to gobble Twitter.READ»

Meet the 27-Year-Old Who's Hijacking Twitter, One Quiz-Crazy Tween at a Time

In just over a month, Dave Zohrob's Twitter app, LOLquiz, has amassed more than 300,000 users and spawned at least 20 trending topics. WTF?READ»

Google, Innovation, and the Web

Marissa Mayer works as director of consumer Web products at Google and has spearheaded almost every user-interface change to the Google Web site for the past four years. She also teaches computer programming at Stanford. In her ...READ»

Twitter Accuses PR-Hungry Pay-for-Followers Service of Spamming, Says PR-Hungry Pay-for-Followers Service

Web promotions company uSocial, which offers ridiculous deals such as "1,000 new Twitter followers for $87," has reportedly gotten itself on Twitter's bad side. According to a uSocial statement making its way 'round the Web, Twitter ...READ»

Innovation Reality Check

Innovative technology is inherently speedy.  And right now Twitter, the social media microblogging site of choice for marketers, mavens, and all manner of multi-taskers moves along at a rapid 140 character per tweet pace.  But you ...READ»