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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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+).

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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.

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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