Blogger team wins people of the year By PC Mag

BLOGGER TEAM Evan Williams, Meg Hourihan, and Paul Bausch won the Prestigious "People of the Year" by PC Mag. Along with them Mena G. Trott and Ben Trott of six Apart Ltd. the makers of Typepad ,another service like blogger also won the award.

Evan and Meg were the actual founders of Blogger. Paul did all the coding behind this site. Blogger is free service to create blogs .It has now been acquired by Google.

Technorati, a blog-tracking service, keeps tabs on over 30 million weblogs in what has come to be known as the blogosphere. According to Technorati, a new weblog is created every seconds. There are blogs out there for everyone. More than 50 of these are Blogger users. It is one of the alexa's top 30 websites.

The Biggest plus point of blogger is that it's simple and free.Even during Financial crisis blogger was free. One needs to know no or just minimal coding to Create a blog. A blog is just like a personal diary or a content driven website. This is Blogger Hosted Blog.

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Jawed Karim- Youtube founder

Jawed Karim (born 1979) is the co-founder of the popular video sharing website YouTube.

Karim was born in Merseburg, East Germany in 1979 and moved to West Germany in 1982. His father, Naimul Karim, is a Bangladeshi researcher at 3M. His mother, Christine Karim, is a research assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Minnesota.

Karim grew up in Germany, and his family moved to the United States in 1992. He graduated from Central High School (Saint Paul, Minnesota), and went on to attend the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.He left campus prior to graduating to become an early employee at PayPal, but continued his coursework, earning his bachelor's degree in computer science in 2004.

While working at PayPal, he met Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. The three later founded the YouTube video sharing website in 2005. After co-founding the company and developing the YouTube concept and website with Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, Karim enrolled as a graduate student in computer science at Stanford University while acting as an advisor to YouTube. When YouTube was acquired by Google, Karim's 137,443 shares of stock were valued at $64.6 million, while his cofounders each earned around $326 million.

He has uploaded the first video on Youtube See it

Check out his Youtube profile

Steve Shih Chen

Steve Shih Chen is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of the popular video sharing website YouTube.

Chen was born in August 1978 in Taiwan. Hegrew up in Taiwan until the age of 8, when his family emigrated to the United States. He attended high school at John Hersey High School as well as the Illinois Math and Science Academy and college from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was an early employee at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. In 2005, the three founded YouTube, a video sharing website.



He currently holds the position of Chief Technology Officer at YouTube. Chen was also an early employee at Facebook, although he left after several months to start YouTube. In June 2006, Chen was named by Business 2.0 as one of the "The 50 people who matter now" in business. In August 2006, Chen told Reuters news agency it was hoped that within 18 months the site would "have every music video ever created."

On October 16, 2006, Chen and Hurley sold YouTube to Google, Inc. for $1.65 billion. Chen received 625,366 shares of Google and an additional 68,721 in a trust as part of the sale. The Google shares that he received were worth $326 million at Google's Feb. 7, 2007 closing stock price of $470.01.

Check his Youtube Profile

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Chad Hurley- Youtube founder

Chad Meredith Hurley is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of the popular San Bruno, California-based video sharing website YouTube, one of the biggest providers of videos on the Internet.

Chad Hurley was born in 1977. He grew up near Birdsboro, Pennsylvania, with an older sister (Heather) and a younger brother (Brent). His parents are Donald Hurley, a financial consultant, and JoAnn, a school teacher. Since childhood, he showed interest in the arts.

He worked in eBay's PayPal division . He was involved designing the original PayPal logo . He satarted YouTube with fellow PayPal colleagues Steve Chen and Jawed Karim.

Hurley is a user interface expert and was primarily responsible for the tagging and video sharing aspects of the site. In June 2006, he was voted 28th on Business 2.0's "50 people who matter" list. In October 2006 he sold YouTube for $1.65 billion to Google.

Check out Chad's YouTube Profile

Twitter

Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send "updates" (text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) via SMS, instant messaging, email, the Twitter website, or an application such as Twitterrific. Twitter was founded in March 2006 by San Francisco start-up company Obvious Corp.

Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and also instantly delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. The sender can restrict delivery to those in his or her circle of friends (delivery to everyone is the default). Users can receive updates via the Twitter website, instant messaging, SMS, RSS, email or through an application. For SMS, currently three gateway numbers are available: short codes for the USA and Canada and a UK number for international use. While the Twitter service is free, posting and receiving updates via SMS may incur charges from the wireless carrier. Several third parties offer posting and receiving updates via email.

Odeo

Odeo is an online application that allows for recording and sharing podcasts with a simple Macromedia Flash-based interface. It also contains a directory and radio, with podcast channels. Odeo was developed by founders Noah Glass who founded Audioblog and Evan Williams, who previously founders Pyra Labs respectively, and received funding from Charles River Ventures.

Initially this was held by both. Subsequently, Williams bought out Charles River's interest in the company, as well as several other investors, and reformed the organization under a new company, Obvious Corp.

Odeo did'nt see as much success as some of their older products like blogger.They neither made any profit nor loss out of this site. It was all a waste of time.

On February 19, 2007, Evan Williams wrote in his blog that Odeo was for sale. Since late March the site no longer seems to have any new podcasts added.

On May 9, 2007 New York-based Sonic Mountain acquired Odeo. Sonic Mountain, in turn, has been acquired by the Amergence Group.

Currently it has a Alexa ranking of 10k+ (10,000+).

Visit Odeo.com

Evan creates Obvious

The co-founder of Pyra labs & the original creator of Blogger is now the founder of Obvious Corp. He founded this company after he left Google.

As a part of this company he has created Odeo.com & Twitter.com. Though Odeo has not seen much success but Twitter has seen some.

Odeo is not making any profit at the same time it's making no loss either. Now they are even considering selling it. This what they carry on their site/blog

"If you're interested in Odeo and can make a serious offer—either in cash or the ability to invest in it while we retain some equity—email me (ev AT obvious) for more details."

Evan is no longer with Google.

ON October 5, 2004, CNET News.com reported that Evan williams the founder of Blogger leaves Google.

This is what they carried

"Google confirmed that the founder of its blog unit is leaving the company.

Evan Williams, who launched Pyra Labs in 1999 to facilitate other people's Web logs, announced his imminent departure from Google--appropriately enough--in a blog posting.

"Yes, I'm leaving my baby (or is it an adolescent by now?)," Williams wrote Monday. "As of this Friday, I will no longer be employed by Google." "

Google acquired Pyra Labs and its Blogger service in February 2003 to attract loyal Web site visitors and perhaps even generate profits.

After acquiring Blogger, Google rescinded fees for premium services and revamped the site.

Meg Hourihan- blogger co-founder

Meg Hourihan co-founded Pyra Labs, the company behind Blogger before its acquisition by Google. She worked with Pyra labs for quiet some time but left it as the coumpay was out of cash. She now runs a weblog at Megnut.com .

She later co-founded kinja along with Nick Denton of Gawker Media. She married notable blogger Jason Kottke on March 25th, 2006, and gave birth to their son, Ollie Peter Kottke, on July 3, 2007.

She is the co-author of We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs (ISBN 0-7645-4962-6), and a frequent speaker at technical conferences concerning online journalism and the role of women in technology.

Hourihan was named a Young Innovator Who Will Create the Future in 2003 by MIT's Technology Review magazine. PC Magazine named Hourihan as one of its 2004 People of the Year .

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Evan Williams

Evan Williams, born in 1972, a native of Nebraska, is an American entrepreneur who has founded two Internet companies.

Williams and Meg Hourihan co-founded Pyra Labs to make project management software, but parts of the application were used to create Blogger, one of the first web applications for creating and managing blogs. The company survived despite the departure of Hourihan and other employees, and was eventually acquired by Google.

Williams left Google in 2004 to co-found Odeo, a podcasting company. In late 2006, Williams co-founded Obvious Corp with Biz Stone and other former Odeo employees. Obvious has acquired all previous properties of Odeo, Inc., including Odeo and Twitter, another project started by Williams.

He maintains the popular weblog Evhead.com.

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Paul & Google

How did or why did Paul join Google???? Just read along...

Since his young days he always liked the idea of starting an important new company or building something really cool that everyone will use. In college he was interested in founding or joining a software start up, but had no idea how to do that. He wanted to work at silicon valley. Luckily, his friend Chad having taken a job with Intel in Santa Clara, reported that Santa Clara was in fact a part of "Silicon Valley", so he too joined Intel in 1998.

His idea of Silicon Valley was that the streets would be "paved with start ups", and that he would probably run into them all over the place. But the picture was not that rosy. After almost a year spent in the cubicles of Intel, he was ready for something new. He still didn't know much about start ups. Fortunately, at Intel he had a lot of spare time .He had plenty of time to read Slashdot, and so rather than do some kind of intelligent research.

He simply sent his resume to the handful of local start ups that seemed technically interesting.
He never heard back from most of those start ups, expect Google. At the time, they were just a small team of people in a little office on University Ave in Palo Alto. Their product seemed very interesting . He never thought Google could ever fight against the mighty Alta vista.

Gmail Founder

Paul Buchheit is an American computer programmer. He was the creator and lead developer of Gmail, which anticipated many aspects of Web 2.0, including the idea of Ajax, long before that term was coined. He developed the original prototype of Google AdSense as part of his work on Gmail. He also suggested the company's now-famous motto "Don't Be Evil" in a 2001 meeting on company values.

Buchheit grew up in Rochester, New York. He went to school in Ohio .Later went to college at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.Before moving on to Google he was a intel employee. He was employee #23 at Google.

Among other things, he came up with the idea for PigeonRank.


He runs a blog called http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com started bu him in march 2007.

Here are some of the picks he has put up on this blog

Gmail Story

Google first told people about Gmail on April 1, 2004. This is April Fool's Day, a day when many people play tricks, so people thought it might be a joke especially since Google already had been known to make April Fool's Jokes (such as PigeonRank). Google said it was not a trick. However, they explained that their real joke had been a press release saying that they would take offshoring to the extreme by putting employees in a "Google Copernicus Center" on the Moon. Jonathan Rosenberg, Google's vice-president of products, was quoted by BBC News as saying, "We are very serious about Gmail."

Gmail was a project begun by Google developer Paul Buchheit years before it was ever announced to the public. For several years, the software was available only internally, as an email client for Google employees. It was hosted under the code name Caribou, a reference to a Dilbert comic strip about Project Caribou.

Before being acquired by Google, the gmail.com domain name was used by the free e-mail service offered by Garfield.com, online home of the comic strip Garfield. This free e-mail service has moved to e-garfield.com.

Gmail also initially received a lot of criticism for a statement they made in their original terms of use, refusing to guarantee that all e-mails at Gmail would be deleted upon request by the user. Google later clarified that they were referring to backup copies of e-mails, and promised that all deleted mails would eventually be expunged completely from their servers. This, along with the feature that advertisements would be generated by software-based scanning of e-mails in order to better target them, gave rise to a controversy on web privacy .

Dodgeball CEO Quits Google

Dodgeball Founder Dennis Crowely Quits Google.This was another case of founders and management quitting Google after an acquisition. This took place with dMarc Advertising when Google moved in.

"It’s no real secret that Google was’t supporting dodgeball the way we expected,” Crowley wrote in the entry, which CNET News.com . “We could’t convince them that dodgeball was worth engineering resources, leaving us to watch as other start ups got to innovate in the mobile + social space.” Crowley could potentially have been referring to Twitter, a Dodgeball rival that’s been getting quite a lot of buzz over the past few months "

What ever it is Google isn't doing much with Dodgeball. There are rumors that it will integrate it with orkut.Whave to just wait & watch.

Orkut Admin

edram Keyani

Wondering who he is he is the orkut admin. Yes you have heard it right. He not only has a orkut star but an ace , flag too. He is also the moderator of the first comm of orkut on Stanford university. HE has far less no scraps than buyukkokten but has has the Star. I don't know why orkut choose not to have that star.

He is a Iranian & is a Zoroastrian

This is his profile link
http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=13681263137832132423

Blogger Story

This is what the Creaters of Blogger.com have to Say about their creation.



"Blogger was started by a tiny company in San Francisco called Pyra Labs in August of 1999. This was in the midst of the dot-com boom. But we weren't exactly a VC-funded, party-throwing, foosball-in-the-lobby-playing, free-beer-drinking outfit. (Unless it was other people's free beer.)

We were three friends, funded by doing annoying contract web projects for big companies, trying to make our own grand entrance onto the Internet landscape. What we were originally trying to do doesn't matter so much now. But while doing it, we created Blogger, more or less on a whim, and thought — Hmmm... that's kinda interesting.

Blogger took off, in a small way, and eventually a bigger way, over a couple years. We raised a little money (but stayed small). And then the bust happened, and we ran out of money, and our fun little journey got less fun. We narrowly survived, not all in one piece, but kept the service going the whole time (most days) and started building it back up.

Things were going well again in 2002. We had hundreds of thousands of users, though still just a few people. And then something no one expected happened: Google wanted to buy us. Yes, that Google

We liked Google a lot. And they liked blogs. So we were amenable to the idea. And it worked out nicely.

Now we're a small (but slightly bigger than before) team in Google focusing on helping people have their own voice on the web and organizing the world's information from the personal perspective. Which has pretty much always been our whole deal. "

Dennis Crowley - the founder of dodgeball

Dennis Crowley is the founder of dodgeball.com, a New York based service that focuses on merging location-based services with social networks to help people connect with the people and places around them. Dodgeball was acquired by Google in 2005.

Dennis has developed and managed mobile applications for Vindigo and MTV Networks and has been involved in the creation of Big Games such as PacManhattan and ConQwest(tm).

He was named one of the "Top 35 Innovators Under 35" by MIT's Technology Review magazine (2005) and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Time Magazine, Newsweek, MTV, Slashdot and NBC. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program.

Dennis holds a Master's degree from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and a Bachelor's degree from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University.

Buyukkokten visits brazil

According to Marcelo(an brazilian blogger) Orkut Buyukkokten, the engineer behind Google’s social network website, is visiting Brazil .
He is in Rio de Janeiro this week, and will visit São Paulo (including a breakfast at GooglePlex with a select group of clients) next week and after that Belo Horizonte, where Google has a R&D facility.
Orkut is the #1 website in Brazil . 57% of Orkut users are from Brazil, accounting for more than 22 million of unique visitors/month. This is probably his first visit to brazil (that's what Marcelo say's so ) & he sure seems to enjoy it.

Check out this album

Visit his personal blog

Lets hope one day he even visits the INDIAN sub continent

Why is orkut called so

Orkut is named on it's founder Orkut buyyukkokten. Since the second name is long first one was kept.

Myth:- Buyukkokten will be the richest by '09

Myth:-
Orkut Buyukkokten(the creator of Orkut) gets $12 when every person registers to this website.
He also gets $10 when you add somebody as a friend.
He gets $8 when your friend's friend adds you as a friend & gets $6 if anybody adds you as a friend in the resulting chain.
He gets $5 when you scrap somebody & $4 when somebody scraps you.
He also gets $200 for each photograph you upload on Orkut.
He gets $2.5 when you add your friend in the crush-list or in the hot-list.
He gets $2 when you become somebody's fan.
He gets $1.5 when somebody else becomes your fan.
He even gets $1 every time you logout of Orkut.
He gets $0.5 every time you just change your profile-photograph.
He also gets $0.5 every time you read your friend's scrap-book & $0.5 every time you view your friend's friend-list.
Many Global Financial Consultants think this person might become the richest-person in the world by the end of 2009.

Fact:-
Just think for yourself Google gets 1 billion per year. If it pays according to what this says it would have to give him at least 1 billion per month. So is it true. More over Orkut is a google product so why would it pay him.He is a google employee & so he orkut was developed by him 4 google .so it's owned by google . he is paid his normal sal + some % of profit