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[Podcasting News] Podcasting News » Odeo acquired by SonicMountain: “We are extremely grateful that Evan Williams will be acting in an advisory capacity during and post transition,”šÄù says Jack Roken, CEO of SonicMountain. ”šÄúEvan”šÄôs proven success with Blogger, Odeo and now the rapid rise of Twitter are examples of the creativity and influence Evan has on the social aspects of the web.

[Fresh Podcasts] Fresh Podcasts: Odeo.com: Odeo was originally developed by founders Noah Glass and Evan Williams, who were previously founders of Audioblog and Pyra Labs respectively, and received funding from Charles River Ventures. Biz Stone Launch Obvious Corp: Odeo, a podcasting site started by Evan Williams, who already made a tidy little fortune selling Blogger to Google, is buying back the share owned by investment firm Charles River Ventures.

[cvideomag.com] A Brief History of Twitter: It was in October two thousand six, that Biz Stone, Evan Williams, Dorsey and other members of Odeo formed Obvious Corporation and acquired Odeo and all of its asset including Odeo.com and twitter from the investors and other .

[Have Laptop Will Travel] Have Laptop Will Travel » Blog Archive » Introducing twttr.com ...: You can record audio and then share it with your Odeo contacts, by email, or by placing it in a Channel for all the world to hear. Audio from Odeo can be downloaded to desktops, iPods, and mp3 players.

[Global Interactive Solutions, Inc.] Global Interactive Solutions, Inc. - Blog Site of Evan Williams ...: In late 2006, Williams co-founded Obvious Corp with Biz Stone and other former Odeo employees. Obvious has acquired all previous properties of Odeo, including Odeo and Twitter, another project started by Williams.

[WSJ.com: Venture Capital Dispatch] Twitter Founders: From “Stupid” Idea To Possible IPO - Venture ...: Two of the founders of Twitter Inc., Evan Williams and Biz Stone, talked about how the micro-blogging service began, the challenges it faced and an eventual potential IPO, at Startup School, an event organized by Y Combinator held at the University of .The three, who had previously worked together at blogging platform company Blogger, realized they were much more interested in Twitter than in podcasting and kept developing it, incubating it within Odeo.

[DMConfidential - Internet Marketing Newsletter] Trends - Tweet This: The Odeo Rodeo: Less is written about Stone, but who it seems knew Williams from the Blogger days. Dorsey is the other wild card, not part of Blogger but instrumental in the actual code development for Twitter, a lauded software engineer and appears to operate in the background as Stone and Williams' names have become more closely linked with that of Twitter's. 

[Internet Marketing Software] Tweeting And The History Of Twitter: Tweet Later automates several very critical Twitter management functions. One extremely powerful function is

[Twitter Stuffs] The origin of Twitter: The initial twitter prototype was first used with in the Odeo employees as internal service and later in July 2006 it was launched into a full scale edition publicly. In October 2006, Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and other associate of Odeo shaped “Obvious Corporation” and got hold of Odeo along all of its possessions””including the Twitter.com and Odeo.com ””from the shareholders and other investors.

[Media: PDA | guardian.co.uk] How Twitter was born: the first 140 users: "Meanwhile, Odeo and the corporate board were at a tension point. Not only was the value of Twttr difficult to describe, the relevance of Odeo was declining monthly.

[WSJ.com: Digits] Twitter Founders Talk About Its Origins, Next Steps and Social ...: Swisher about Twitter’s next steps, which he said include scaling the company from its current staff of 43 to 45 (”We need to be a lot bigger in order to handle the challenges and growth”), adding features (”There’s, as Biz said, lots of head-slapping things we need to do with the product”) and building a “monetizable” business.

[Featured Sites - Quarkbase] Odeo.com: as well as several other investors, and reformed the organization under a new company, Obvious Corp, which planned to develop new products, including Twitter.On February 19, 2007, Evan Williams wrote in his blog that Odeo was for sale. It was acquired soon after by New York-based Sonic Mountain.On September 14, 2007, Sonic Mountain announced it had acquired the technology assets of FireAnt, an RSS video aggregation website and desktop media player, with plans to incorporate the technology into the Odeo service.On March 18, 2008, Sonic Mountain announced it had acquired Blogdigger, a search engine for blogs and RSS content, with plans to incorporate the technology into Odeo.In June 2008, Odeo was relaunched by Sonic Mountain with a completely redesigned site and an expanded focus on search &

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