Tag: EVANWILLIAMS

We wonder if Lady Gaga's got Internet domination in the pipeline. On Tuesday, the always-delightful singer dropped by Google HQ; yesterday, she paid her respects to Twitter. She charmed the engineers, was interviewed by Evan Williams, and by all accounts highly ingratiated herself. Just this morning, Gaga announced she'll be dropping a song tomorrow via Twitter. So maybe it wasn't all fun and ...

A black, nine-inch tattoo, in the shape of a thick S, runs down Jack Dorsey's left forearm. But one can ignore the outlaw implications: this is a man whose first act each day is to text his mother. Dorsey intends the tattoo as a reference to his interests in math, music, and anatomy. First, it represents an integral. "It symbolizes integrating everything," explains Dorsey, somewhat ...

Evan Williams, the co-founder and CEO of Twitter since 2008, announced today in a blog post that he would be stepping aside, and that COO Dick Costolo would be taking the company's helm. Williams wrote in the announcement: "Growing big is not success, in itself. Success to us means meeting our potential as a profitable company that can retain its culture and user focus while having a positive ...

Vanity Fair will bow to Silicon Valley in its October issue, which will see the magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Lo and behold, Mark Zuckerberg takes the number one spot: "This year Vanity Fair anoints Zuck as our new Caesar. He rules from the imperial capital of Palo Alto, California, the Rome of our nascent millennium." Although VF kind of glosses over ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Our favorite avant-garde entrepreneur/pop star just got a little more famous. Lady Gaga's 'Bad Romance' music video just took the number one spot for most viewed on YouTube -- which is kind of surprising. Considering the bated breath with which the world waited for 'Telephone,' you'd think her Tarantino/'Thelma and Louise' homage ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... According to online marketing firm Hitwise, Facebook has supplanted Google as the most visited site in the United States. While its seemingly infinite communicative tools continue to encroach on the popularity of Google and Gmail, the social networking behemoth can't claim complete U.S. dominance just yet, as Google still attracts ...

Here at SXSW, during an awkward, winding discussion between Twitter co-founder Evan Williams and Umair Haque of Havas Media Lab, the latest Twitter addition was announced. After hopping onstage, Evan kicked off the hour-long talk by immediately revealing and demoing @anywhere, a framework that aims to make Twitter and tweets more accessible across the Web. Firstly, hovercards -- which are ...

Share No one really knows what went down during last week's closed-door meeting between Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama, but at least we now know about the small miracle that transpired when His Holiness recently met with Twitter co-founder Evan Williams. After last year's fake Dalai Lama Twitter account tricked 16,000 people into following it, the Tibetan spiritual leader has apparently ...

The Internet is definitely hopped up on a Twitter high at the moment, and, now that Oprah is included, many say the site has reached its high-water mark. It seems that with everyone and their mother (near-literally) flooding Twitter, the site will soon lose its appeal to the early adopters and tech-savvy folks that made first made it a hit. From there, we'd think, the site's popularity could only ...