ev williams

Medium hunting for a magazine acquisition — and a sustainable business model Members Public

Is Medium slowly becoming the Huffington Post circa 2008? It's hunt for more content suggests it might be.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Medium

Medium kills the reader memberships of its final partners Members Public

Medium continues the cull of all the features that made it a worthwhile platform to build a business on.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Medium

Is Medium aiming to be the Facebook of long-form writing? Members Public

Stowe Boyd has some serious questions about the future of Medium [https://medium.com/@stoweboyd/is-medium-following-the-facebook-playbook-6a21b3db6e7d] : > And what about Medium? Are we better off because of Medium’s mechanisms to suggest to us what to read, or would we be better off with thousands of independent curators and publishers,

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
blog platforms

Medium: big job cuts and a direction change Members Public

Ev Williams [https://blog.medium.com/renewing-mediums-focus-98f374a960be#.blb0hupeb]: > I’ll start with the hard part: As of today, we are reducing our team by about one third — eliminating 50 jobs, mostly in sales, support, and other business functions. We are also changing our business model to more directly drive

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
business models

Ev Williams: preserving the web's chaos at Medium Members Public

Interesting profile of Ev Williams [http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/06/ev-williams-is-the-forrest-gump-of-the-internet/486899/] , the man behind Blogger, Twitter and now Medium, over at The Atlantic: > But as I spend more time with Ev, I catch him thinking of Medium as a project philosophically akin to the “Foundation”

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
ev williams

Medium goes large - to a $400m valuation Members Public

Medium, the blogging platform created by Ev Williams, has just take on a big new chunk of investment [http://recode.net/2015/09/28/ev-williams-medium-raises-57-million-for-the-best-stories-and-ideas-on-the-internet/] : > Medium, the publishing platform hatched by Twitter co-founder Ev Williams, has raised $57 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz. It’s the

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
blog platforms

Messages about Medium, an Obvious new publishing tool Members Public

Well, look at that. Another web tool to reinvent social publishing that we hoi polloi can’t use yet. The Medium might to be the message this time – the users given access to the Medium are. Anil Dash made some good points earlier that this “private quasi-public beta” is actually

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Blogging