Biz Stone, 35, was born Christopher Isaac Stone in Boston on March 10, 1974, grew up in Wellesley, Mass., and lives with his wife, Livia in Berkeley. He attended Northeastern University on a scholarship and majored in English studies also attending the University of Massachusetts on a theater arts scholarship before dropping out to work for a designer of Book Jackets.

When the company decided to move its design division to New York in 1995, Stone decided to stay in Mass and four years later he and Marc Ginsburg started the website “Xanga.com” you know “The Blogging Community” in 2000.

In 2004, Stone moved to California to help Even Williams re-launch “Blogger” that Google had purchased from Evan Williams company “Pyra Labs” in 2003. In 2005 both Stone and Williams left Google to form Odeo, a podcast company.

In 2007, Stone, Williams and Jack Dorsey hooked-up to start “Twitter”. And if all that was not enough to keep one busy, Biz Stone has penned two books on Blogging. The first “Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content (New Riders, 2002) and Who Let The Blogs Out? (St Martins, 2004). Stone has his own Blog, but has not posted to it since April 23, 2008 when he was worried about insects and telephones ……….. Ahhh, Twitter for Zenomorphs, Cool !!!

And what is Biz tweeting about today? “Walking the dogs around the secret pond http://yfrog.com/1du1rbj” ………. I think he meant to say “Walking the Blogs around the secret pond!” Don’t fall in Biz!!!