E-mail a friendAugust 13, 2009
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone shares lessons learned from the site's recent crash, talks about the growing influence of the brand and speculates on the micro-blogging site's future. Emmy-nominated actress Gloria Reuben says divine intervention plays a big role in her life.
Biz Stone
Biz Stone
Twitter co-founder explains the site's recent 'denial of service' attack and how his group is working to protect it from future attacks. (1:36)
Full interview. (16:45)
Biz Stone is co-founder of Twitter—one of the most popular messaging systems to hit the Internet. He's helped build other popular social media services, including Xanga, Blogger and Odeo, and published two books on blogging. Stone is a native of Boston, MA and developed his entrepreneurial spirit early, mowing lawns and producing, directing and acting in his own high school plays. He later moved to Berkeley, CA, where he also advises other start-ups, including the nonprofit Justgive.org.
Gloria Reuben
Gloria Reuben
Actress-singer talks about playing a public defender in Raising the Bar. (1:33)
Full interview. (8:56)
Gloria Reuben earned multiple Emmy nods for her role on NBC's ER, in a storyline marking the first time in TV history that a recurring character was HIV-positive. She demonstrated her singing chops by performing backup on a Tina Turner concert tour and recording a solo CD in '04. Born in Toronto, Reuben attended the prestigious Canadian Royal Conservatory and worked as a model and in TV ads. When not shooting her TNT series, Raising the Bar, she spends considerable time working on behalf of several charitable causes.