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Dave Sifry

March 28, 2010 By Jeffrey Leave a Comment

When looking for a subject for this week’s “The Sunday Morning Post” the choice was an easy one; however, once again it would seem that I have stumbled upon a subject that is hard to define, yet has made a huge contribution to this and many fellow Bloggers. No birth-dates, no children, no wife, no working on a family farm….. just cold, hard facts. Dave Sifry is all about the cold, hard facts. I’m not sure this post will make for a warm and fuzzy read, but it’s sure to be educational.

Dave Sifry is an entrepreneur with over 20 years experience in the I.T industry. Most recently, he founded Technorati, the largest blog search engine in the world. He is Chairman of Technorati’s Board of Directors and served as CEO from 2002 to 2007. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University. Dave lived and worked in Kobe, Japan for Mitsubishi Electric, and speaks Japanese in a rusty kansai-ben. While he now lives in foggy San Francisco, he has an interest in the outdoors and is drawn to Yosemite, in his hometown state of California.

Dave was a co-founder and the CTO of Sputnik. Prior to Sputnik, he was co-founder, CTO, and Vice President of Engineering at Linuxcare, Inc, having built Linuxcare’s services infrastructure.

Dave is a recognized expert on leadership development, blogs and the massive changes in the digital media environment, Open Source development, and the Linux operating system.

He is also the creator of Projectdocs, an online document management and collaboration service, and Hoosgot, a lazyweb service. He served on the founding Board of Directors of Linux International, the Advisory Board of the National White Collar Crime Center, and the Technical Advisory Board of the National Cybercrime Training Partnership for law enforcement.

Like so many of my subjects, Dave no longer keeps a regular Blog, which is truly our loss; his last entry at Sifry.com was on April 19, 2009 and titled: Great Kids Afternoon Project: Claymation! He does, however, leave in his absence a hard-earned understanding of the Blogging Process with his train of thought. React quickly, make your post easy to read, link, optimize for the search engines and don’t forget to post! Now, those are cold hard facts!

Filed Under: The Sunday Morning Post Tagged With: Biz Stone, Blogger, Dave Sifry, Evan Williams, Google, Jack Dorsey, Jason Kottke, Meg Hourihan, Stumbleupon, Twitter

Evan Williams

March 7, 2010 By Jeffrey Leave a Comment

Evan Williams was born on March 31, 1972 in Clarks, Nebraska. Raised on the family farm, Williams, when not in school helped out with the irrigation chores. He attended the University of Nebraska for a year and a half, and following tradition left to purse a career in technology.

Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan, co-founded Pyra Labs to provide Project Management Software. A note-taking feature of the software was spun off into the now popular Google app., Blogger.

Google acquired Pyra Labs on February 13, 2003. Williams left Google in October 2004 to co-found Odeo, a podcasting company. In late 2006, Williams co-founded Obvious with Biz Stone and other former Odeo employees. In April 2007, Odeo was acquired by Sonic Mountain.

In 2007, Williams, Biz Stone, and Jack Dorsey hooked-up to start “Twitter”. In October 2008, Williams became CEO of Twitter, displacing Jack Dorsey who became chairman of the board.

Evan Williams lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with wife, Sara Morishige, and son, Miles born on August 11, 2009.

If your feeling like the following information on Williams represents “Cliffs Notes” instead of a journalistic post, there’s good reason. While in the course of doing research for this post, there just was not much information on Williams himself. He has done plenty of interviews, but rarely talks about himself. It’s pretty much Twitter this and that.

Williams like Biz Stone still manages his own Blog, though he also, like Stone has not been active for some time, since December 28, 2009 where his last post was titled “They’re not talking to you”.

And what is Evan Tweeting about today? OH: “My face awaits you.” ……….. Very Strange!

Filed Under: The Sunday Morning Post Tagged With: Biz Stone, Blogger, Evan Williams, Google, Jack Dorsey, Meg Hourihan, Twitter

Biz Stone

February 28, 2010 By Jeffrey Leave a Comment

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!!!