CEO of Medium // @ev
I love a professionally reported 17-minute article about an important and surprising topic. Or a 10-minute technical mystery by a professional designer. And who doesn’t enjoy a 91-minute interview between a media entrepreneur and a journalist?
High-production value, lengthy stories are what Medium is best known for. And I’m glad we’ve…
Please vote with your highlights: Which of these do you think looks better (talking about the content itself — ignore the chrome):
The thing that threatens the web is the mobile ecosystem and the inevitable march of centralization.
Over the next few years, there is no doubt content and attention will continue to shift from tens of millions of web sites to a few centralized networks that people access via apps on their phones. It’s not that I wish that future to be true. It just is. The open web will not go away (knock on wood…
The first video was uploaded to YouTube.
Facebook, then just a year old, dropped “the” from its old URL “thefacebook.com” after acquiring “facebook.com” for $200K.
Wow, I had to check your facts, because it seems like YouTube is older than Facebook. But you’re right! Probably a symptom of being old and, therefore, not seeing FB until 2007 or so.
How to Make Great Things
Questionable design decisions, being questioned
Appreciating how far things have come
Thanks for sharing the story. Sorry it didn’t work out as planned. (Nice pitch deck. ;)
This is hilarious, re early Apple employee Burrell Smith, from Andy Hertzfeld’s book:
One of his favorite expressions was “I’ll be your best friend”…
I appreciate the challenge, Julien. What would you suggest we do to help, specifically? Open to ideas!
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I hope it is true that “eventually the pendulum will swing back as the closed services atrophy and entrepreneurs & developers go elsewhere.” And I do think closed services will atrophy and entrepreneurs and developers will go elsewhere, but will that mean openness? Looking at things at an industry level is disheartening.