Perhaps that’s because it’s not the first time his blog (hosted on the Blogger service Google bought from Pyra Labs in 2003) has been taken offline. That happened in 2010, ...

It offered the opportunity to post items and responses in instant fashion. So, I migrated my Listserv to the best blog platform of that time, by Pyra Labs -- a technology they called Blogger. A few ...

In February 2oo3 Google, at the time still primarily a search engine, helped kick-start the Web 2.0 startup boom when the company purchased Pyra Labs, the startup parent of Blogger.com founded by ...

They discovered their mutual admiration for the web, briefly dated, and ultimately founded Pyra Labs together in 1999. Pyra never actually shipped its namesake software, a suite of office ...

Even when Google was small, it wasn’t shy about spending. The company’s first startup acquisition, the 2003 purchase of Pyra Labs, forms the backbone of what is today Blogger, an online ...

More recently, Blogger was started by Pyra Labs in August 1999 and experienced some success before the bubble burst. Evan Williams and Co. ran out of money and struggled to keep the service.

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The Clarks, Nebraska, native and Twitter co-founder discussed the social network and Blogger, which he co-founded and later sold to Google, at his Big Omaha speech.

Hourihan and Williams named it Pyra Labs, and Paul Bausch joined the team early on. “I discovered he was really into the Web and excited about all these possibilities,” Hourihan said.

Eventually, he started Pyra Labs, which led to a side project called Blogger. No further introduction is needed. He eventually left Google to start Odeo, a podcasting company that spawned Twitter ...