Wednesday’s Grand Event - PT 5 - Live Blogging @ The Web 2.0 Summit

Evan Williams, the Co-founder of Twitter talks about some things they learned over the last year running Twitter.com. He based it on constraints and how to keep things simple. He like to ask “What can we take away to create something new”. For those that don’t know, Evan created Blogger. Twitter utilizes SMS and messages are limited to 140 characters with no formating. Twitter has a very successful API and there are now hundreds of apps that use the twitter it. What other sites use constraints. FotoLog lets you upload 1 photo a day. YouTube only allows 2 minutes or 10mb of video. Google, takes away most graphics and minimized design.

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