Evan Williams
December 20th, 2007
I’ve been keeping a distant eye on Evan Williams for a while all stalker-like because he’s just so damned inventive. He created Blogger, Twitter and I’m sure there’s more in the pipeline. It’s interesting to see a great article about him at The Economist
Accidental innovation is fascinating at all sorts of levels to me. History is filled with stories of people stumbling into an idea, or taking things away and using radical constraints to improve creative thinking.
I built vagueware entirely by accident. I was filling shoe boxes with index cards of ideas for the things I really wanted to build and realised I should start putting them out there on the web, and I needed a tool to do it. Oddly, I’ve still not got around to putting the ideas online - they’re still on index cards waiting to be released.
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