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Evan Wiilliams and his great masterpiece

Evan Wiilliams and his great masterpiece

By: Nadia Putri

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Evan WilliamsBorn: 31st of March 1972, Nebraska

Grew up in a farm, finished school and entered University of Nebraska but only for one and a half year

Active in Technological Jobs after leaving school and also made some companies of his own

Worked in O’Reilly first as marketing but was then hired to become one of its contractors writing computer codes

Together with Meg Hourihan, they co-founded Pyra Labs which are the creators of Blogger


Pyra Labs was then acquired by Google

Made his new podcasting company Odeo which was then acquired again by Google

Then he made Obvious Corp with Biz Stone and the other employees of Odeo

Twitter is a project of Obvious Corp with a new sensation of Micro Blogging

Twitter became its own company in April 2007 and he became the CEO of Twitter in February 2009 after Jack Dorsey

Within a year, Twitter has reach the number of over 105 Million users with 300 000 new users signing up each day

Yet in October 2010, he resigned from his positionSunday, November 6, 2011

Developing Technology

Came up with the term “blogger”

Co-founder of world’s well-known Blogger and Twitter

Although the first micro blog is Tumblelogs, not twitter, yet he was the one who succeeded in commercializing micro blogging through twitter

He also made Technology useful by bringing impacts to various areas, not just technology itself.

Developing Technology


He was awarded as one of the top 100 Innovators of the world under the age of 35 in the year 2003 by MIT Technology Review TR100

In 2004, he and his co-workers were awarded as PC’s Magazine’s “People of the Year” for their project, Blogger

In March 2007, Twitter won the SXSW Web Award in the “Blog” Category


Impacts on the Society

A way of speaking to the world

Cries your heart out for the world to hear

Updates the world

Brings the world closer

Sharing knowledge and experiences

Gaining knowledge and inspirations



Other websites which follows him







Blogger inspires a lot of people leading to new blogging sites which are now useful to various areas of knowledge....


Educationally


Politics


Business and Employement


Environmentally


Home and Leisure


Health


Another similiar site that brought up the same impacts...


When Twitter leads up to a serious problem...Footballer sued Twitter over descriminating tweets

NBA fined Mark Cuban for his tweets about another player

Courtney Love was sued over her tweet about conflicts with fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir


Yet at the same time, Twitter helps in saving the world...

Kosuke Tsuneoka, a japanese Journalist, was kidnapped in Afghanistan and sent message through twitter

The Vocalist of the Indonesian Band “Vierra” was known kidnapped after her tweets


Bibliography

2009, February. "Evan Williams (entrepreneur)." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 01 Nov. 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Williams_(entrepreneur)>

http://images.detik.com/content/2010/01/06/431/widi1.jpg

Screenshots taken from Twitter.com , Fundraisers.com , Shopify.com , poozt.com

http://newshopper.sulekha.com/kosuke-tsuneoka_photo_1498217.htm


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Williams_(entrepreneur)










"Journalist Kosuke Tsuneoka Uses Twitter to Escape Captivity in Afghanistan." Technology News and Opinion on The Huffington Post. Web. 01 Nov. 2011. <http://www.switched.com/2010/09/07/journalist-kosuke-tsuneoka-uses-twitter-to-escape-captivity-in-a/>.

"Widi Vierra Hilang Diculik." PEMUDA INDONESIA BARU. Web. 01 Nov. 2011. <http://pemudaindonesiabaru.blogspot.com/2011/07/widi-vierra-hilang-diculik.html>.

@erikmal, Follow. "British Soccer Star Sues Twitter Over Privacy Issue | Playbook | Wired.com." Wired.com. Web. 01 Nov. 2011. <http://www.wired.com/playbook/2011/05/british-soccer-sues-twitter/>.

"NBA Fines Mavs Owner $100K for Lebron James Comments – This Just In - CNN.com Blogs." This Just In - CNN.com Blogs. Web. 01 Nov. 2011. <http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/22/nba-fines-mavs-owner-100k-for-lebron-james-comments/>.


http://www.switched.com/2010/09/07/journalist-kosuke-tsuneoka-uses-twitter-to-escape-captivity-in-a/




http://pemudaindonesiabaru.blogspot.com/2011/07/widi-vierra-hilang-diculik.html




http://www.wired.com/playbook/2011/05/british-soccer-sues-twitter/




http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/22/nba-fines-mavs-owner-100k-for-lebron-james-comments/




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