FTA: > After Ev Williams quit Google in 2005, he agreed to work partime for Odeo, a startup that syndicated podcasts through the RSS (the technology that bring

FTA: > After Ev Williams quit Google in 2005, he agreed to work partime for Odeo, a startup that syndicated podcasts through the RSS (the technology that brings blog posts to your Google Reader). > The gig became fulltime, but Odeo flopped. > So Ev and his friend Biz Stone decided to focus the company on a product Odeo employee Jack Dorsey had come up with: a site that broadcast the notes people put up in the AOL instant messenger away messages. Thus, Twitter was born.