Medium has been known primarily for its long-form, magazine-style pieces -- but founder Evan Williams says it wants to be a home for shorter posts as well, so it has launched several new features that make it more Twitter-like and more blog-like…
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Of editors and algorithms: Evan Williams on the future of media and Medium’s role in it
There may be some low-quality content being published on Medium, says founder Evan Williams, but the platform is building ways of filtering through that to find great content that otherwise wouldn't see the light of day.…
Read MoreThanks to the web, journalism is now something you do — not something you are
The fact that it is more difficult than ever to decide who qualifies as a "journalist" may make for a confusing media landscape, and it may trouble some professional journalists and media outlets, but in the long run we are better off.…
Read MoreTwitter co-founder gets back in the game with new mobile startup called Jelly
If you're successful enough to start companies like Twitter and Blogger and you move on to something new, it's fair to say people will be watching the new venture. This time, Biz Stone is hinting at his latest project called Jelly.…
Read MoreEvan Williams thinks it’s harder to start a tech company today [video]
Evan Williams, the founder of Blogger, Twitter and, more recently, The Obvious Corporation, discussed during GigaOM RoadMap 2012 how starting a tech company has changed in the past dozen years.…
Read MoreThe one big thing that newspaper visionaries didn’t foresee
A memo written by the managing editor of the Washington Post in 1992 says a lot about how much of the future of media was obvious even then, but it also misses the most disruptive force the industry has seen -- namely, the rise of social media.…
Read MoreMedium is well done, but is it the future of publishing?
Evan Williams and Biz Stone have launched a new web-publishing platform called Medium that they hope will be part of a reinvention of digital content. But apart from founders with a great pedigree, it's not immediately clear what Medium offers that other services don't.…
Read MoreWith Medium, Twitter founders want to ‘reimagine publishing’ — again
Twitter founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams Tuesday unveiled their latest publishing platform, Medium. The new tool aims to give people a collaborative, lightweight way to express themselves online with images and text.…
Read MoreAre aggregation and curation journalism? Wrong question
There's been a lot of debate about whether a Forbes blog post that excerpted and summarized a New York Times story qualifies as journalism or not -- but to some extent that's a red herring. The only question that matters is whether the reader is served.…
Read MoreCan ‘Pay a Blogger Day’ help Flattr gain velocity?
Swedish micropayments startup Flattr is hoping it can encourage web users to hand over cash to the bloggers they love -- and gain a bit of traction for its own service in the process.…
Read MoreReasons why the social graph deserves to die
In a smart essay on the technical origins of today's social networks, Pinboard founder Maciej Ceglowski explores the idea of why the social graph doesn't work in the way we need -- and explodes it in the process.…
Read MoreHands on with Blogger for iPhone
Google added yet another app to its stable of software for the iPhone on Thursday. This time, it's the official Blogger app, which lets users publish and edit posts to Google's blogging service. But with no shortage of competition, is there anything special about this app?…
Read MoreNo plans to kill the Blogger brand
A source familiar with Google's Blogger division told us that contrary to web rumors, the search giant has no plans to send the Blogger brand on its way. Or to paraphrase Mark Twain, rumors of Blogger's death have been greatly exaggerated and re-tweeted.…
Read MoreTwitter co-founder Ev Williams on Blogger & blogging’s future
With Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and countless other options, blogging isn't quite what it used to be. I wanted to know what the future of blogging is so I emailed Twitter's Evan Williams. Here are some of the things he told me.…
Read MoreIt’s Obvious: Ev Williams and Biz Stone, together again
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is leaving the company to join former CEO Evan Williams and former lead developer Jason Goldman in a new venture called Obvious. For the team that helped create Twitter and Blogger, expectations for their new project are going to be pretty high.…
Read MoreMemolane Launched Embeddable Web Activity Time Lines
Memolane, the social media aggregation startup, has launched an embeddable version of its social web activity timelines. Memolane, which pools together a user's various social web identities from sites like Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and Blogger into one searchable timeline, launched in public beta last month.…
Read MoreWhy Most Startup Acquisitions Fail, and Always Will
Why do Yahoo and Google have such a miserable track record when it comes to acquiring startups like Flickr, Delicious and Dodgeball? It's the nature of the beast -- startups and big companies are two completely different animals, and blending their DNA often just doesn't work.…
Read MoreHosted Community App Vanilla Forums Now Embeddable
Vanilla Forums, which I wrote about last year, has added several new features. Notably, forums can now be embedded in other website using simple JavaScript code. The embedded forums can use your site's theme and CSS, or can use one of the many Vanilla themes.…
Read MoreJust How Often Should You Blog?
Without question, blogging provides an effective way to market your business. And most folks know that, generally, the more frequently you blog, the higher your traffic. But does that mean you should follow the advice of many to create a new post every single day?…
Read MoreDoes Blogger Outreach Still Work?
In early 2007, the Council of Public Relations Firms (CPRF) and APCO Worldwide partnered to learn more about interactions and relationships between…
Read MoreHave You Thanked Your Favorite Bloggers Today?
Today I sent a note to a popular blogger; at the end of the message I thanked him for his passion and enthusiasm. After sending the message, I wondered if my note would be read, let alone matter to him, but that kind of thing does matter.…
Read MoreSkimmer, a New Lifestreaming Client
If you constantly find yourself flicking between clients and browser windows for the different social networking apps that you use, you might…
Read MoreWeb Work 101: Two Tools to Get You Started
An introductory look at two of the key tools of the trade.…
Read More5 Additional Contacts Every Web Worker Should Have
In a previous post here at WWD, I gave a list of four essential contacts for web workers. The list included a…
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