Blogger, every mention
21 scenes, the whole family · ← back to Blogger
tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Guy Raz 18Ev Williams 12Anthony Casalena 3Matt Mullenweg 2Ethan Diamond 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Blogger comes up
Twitter, Medium and Blogger: Ev Williams
- ▶ 3:05 Guy Raz Twitter, of course, became Ev's best known brand, but he also founded Blogger and later Medium, three hugely influential products in the era of social media.
- ▶ 22:02 Ev Williams It was called Blogger. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:50 Ev Williams We didn't think we could charge money for Blogger, necessarily.
- ▶ 26:11 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, how Ev brings Blogger back to life, and then heads into a whole new venture, which does not go anywhere until it turns into Twitter.
- ▶ 26:42 Guy Raz So it's around 2001, and Ev Williams is determined to get Blogger up and running, even if he has to do it alone. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:52 Guy Raz I mean, blogger eventually started to get, gain traction.
- ▶ 31:25 Guy Raz So, by 2002, you were able to actually start charging for Blogger, um, and, and it started to bring in some revenue. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:57 Ev Williams Maybe I could pay my rent, and then I launched what I call Blogger Pro, and
- ▶ 34:07 Guy Raz All right, so, 2004, um, you leave Google, and you start to noodle on a new idea, because you made some money from Blogger, and the, and the new idea would become, you started a podcast platform in 2004, called Odeo, which must have been,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:35 Guy Raz This is Biz Stone, who also had worked with you on Blogger, I should mention.
- ▶ 47:48 Guy Raz Did you already in 2006 feel like, okay, this thing I think could be the next blogger.
- ▶ 1:09:52 Ev Williams Like, if Twitter just did what Blogger did and posted your tweet to a webpage and didn't fan it out, if there wasn't this follow mechanism, it wouldn't be very interesting. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:54 Guy Raz I mean, you're in your, you know, early fifties, and, you know, you've achieved incredible success and built amazing, well-known brands, blogger, Twitter, medium.
- ▶ 1:13:49 Guy Raz That's Ev Williams, founder of Blogger and Medium, and co-founder of Twitter.
WordPress & Automattic: Matt Mullenweg
- ▶ 14:07 Matt Mullenweg Really simple, like blogger.
- ▶ 20:34 Guy Raz So it would be people who might have used e-blogger or LiveJournal or something like that?
- ▶ 1:04:44 Matt Mullenweg There was Blogger, there was
How I Built Resilience: Ethan Diamond of Bandcamp
- ▶ 6:38 Ethan Diamond You had blogger, type pad, movable, all these things that let you set up your own site very, very quickly and easily, and then it would say, like, powered by movable type in the bottom, right?
Squarespace: Anthony Casalena
- ▶ 6:41 Anthony Casalena And it was Blogger at the time, um, which again, it would be very personal in nature.
- ▶ 14:28 Anthony Casalena Like, Blogger was free. 2 times in the scene
Slack & Flickr: Stewart Butterfield
- ▶ 18:15 unnamed speaker Yeah, um, so around that time, Google had bought Blogger, um, which was one of the early blogging programs, and, uh, they didn't have a way to host photos, so they put, you know, in their help materials online, uh,