our illustrious e zero, walter isaacson. he released one of the first internet portals called pathfinder. it is still out there today. biz stone and evan williams are co-founders and two creators of blogger and twitter. both of those inventions will be feeling the repercussions of that for another generation at least. without further ado, walter isaacson, biz stone, and evan williams. [applause] >> can you put your name tags back on silicon remember them? >> it does not matter. >> it does not matter? ok. we are going to start with a piece of news about the future of the internet. a significant piece of news. these are the co-founders of twitter. they have something to announce today. do you want to start? >> evan bayh, i, and jason goldman -- the bald man in the front -- >> do not trade on this information because the market is closed. >> the three of us had been longtime collaborators and really good friends. our dream was always to build our own company where we get to make whatever we want, whenever we think is going to b

without further ado, walter isaacson, biz stone, and evan williams. [applause] >> can you put your name tags back on so i can remember them? it does not matter. >> we are going to start with a piece of news about the future of the internet. these are the co-founders of twitter. they are happy to announce today -- >> evan and i and jason, our longtime collaborator, -- he knows he is ball. the three of us have been longtime collaborators and really good friends. our dream was always to build our own company where we get to make what ever we want, whenever we think is going to be helpful to the world and make the world a better place. we put up a web site today and we are calling our company "the obvious corp.." we do not have anything specific to say about exactly what we are working on just yet, but i am ready to reveal that. we are excited to announce that we have started a new company. >> it actually is the loss of the new company, the obvious company. >> it is actually a relaunch. it incubated twitter before spending -- spinning it off into its own

so without further ado, walter isaacson, biz stone and ev williams.applause] >> thank you, biz, thank you, ev, for -- i'm sorry, say that again? >> [inaudible] >> okay. can you put your name tag back on so i can remember that? >> doesn't matter. >> doesn't matter? okay. by the way, we are actually going to start with a piece of news. about the future of the internet and, seriously, a significant piece of news. these are the co-founders of twitter, and can they have something to announce today. biz, you want to start? >> sure. we, evan and i and our longtime collaborator jason goldman -- jason? right here, the bald man in front. >> you're allowed to tweet -- not trading on this information because the markets are closed. >> that's okay. he know he's bald. [laughter] the three of us have been longtime collaborators and really good friends, and our dream was always to build our own company where we get to make whatever we want, whatever we think is going to be helpful to the world and make the world a better place. and be so we put up a web site today, a

that is with walter isaacson. lots of coverage from iowa. the republican presidential candidates are they're campaigning around iowa. i appear to killer friday at 11:30 p.m. at the state fair with speeches from present form, ron paul, and timbaland a. that afternoon, remarks from michele bachmann. all that coverage starting friday at 11:30 p.m. eastern. >> this weekend on american history tv will visit the office of the archivist of the united states as he shows historic documents that are of personal interest to him. leon panetta recalls his years working in the republican administration of richard nixon. his eventual resignation, and the switch to the democratic party and on the 50th anniversary of the ill-fated bay of pigs invasion. a critical look at u.s.-cuban relations in the 1950's and 1960's. get the complete weekend schedules at c-span.org/history. >> at today's white house briefing, press secretary jay carney talked about the ongoing violence and unrest in syria. and the trip to dover air force base to honor the troops killed in th

walter isaacson who has written great biographies. or -- jobs agreed to cooperate on the book. for the first time he's ever agreed to cooperate with an author. the book's publication has moved up to november. he's been extraordinary with jobs the last year and a half. i think the book is going to be amazing. he's spoken with him at extraordinary length with his personal life, rise of apple, personal fall, his redemption and resurrection, leading the company to greatness. it's the book that a lot of people have been waiting for pause jobs has never done this before, opened up to someone fully in the way that he has with walter. >> the book i want to read. >> i think what's interesting about jobs is the influence played by being an adopted child. our writer says he was the harry potter being raised pie mby muggles. he never felt that he was of that. that he was different. he was a wizard leaving among muggles upon -- muggles. >> good cover. >>> we have new information about the damage caused by hurricane irene. there are at least 40 conf