13 month ago
nelson : Tech Review on Twitter - Great long article, mostly profiling Evan. Fantastic photos.
tehu : What Is He Doing? - An insightful portrait of Evan Willianms and his star projects : Blogger & Twitter.
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19 month ago
Andy Baio : Kottke on the growth of Twitter vs. Blogger - digging into Twitter's incredible growth using low-tech means; the comments are good, too
nelson : Twitter, Blogger growth - more delving into IDs to give a clue to message traffic
Linkorama : Growth of Twitter vs. Blogger - Interesting comparison, hints at low thresholds, multiple modalities, experience of team as cause
jimray : Kottke's got a sharp post about the growth of Twitter v. Blogger - With charts for the kids! Uses the sequential numbering of post-ids to compare message growth of the two services.
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25 month ago
Andy Baio : Evan Williams and Biz Stone buy Odeo and Twitter - the new company will follow a similar philosophy to Robot Co-op and 37 Signals
veen : evhead: The Birth of Obvious Corp. - Ev is excited.
znarf : evhead: The Birth of Obvious Corp. - Great move. #
43folders : evhead: The Birth of Obvious Corp. - Congrats to Ev and Biz! [ via:waxy.org ]
philgyford : Evhead: The Birth of Obvious Corp. - I've thought this would be the way to go for some time: build a network of smallish, mutually-supporting websites, grow organically. (via Kottke)
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27 month ago
Andy Baio : Evhead on why pageviews are an obsolete metric - part of Myspace's big numbers are attributable to terrible site design [via]
Nelson Minar : Ev on web metrics - No easy way to measure how popular a site is
plasticbag : Ev Williams on why pageviews are obselete - There's clearly a need for an abstracted measurement to help advertisers work out where they're going to get the best return on their investment, but god only knows what it is...
Paul Hammond : evhead: Pageviews are Obsolete - Ajax is only part of the reason pageviews are obsolete. Another one is RSS
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