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> We are at a crossroads of consumer attention when it comes to reading, writing, and the “blogosphere”. With the seemingly endless amount of standalone blogs o

> We are at a crossroads of consumer attention when it comes to reading, writing, and the “blogosphere”. With the seemingly endless amount of standalone blogs out there on the web, the market is thirsting for a platform that will consolidate blogging, and bring the value it provides into one convenient and curated location. ... YouTube did this exact thing for filmmakers, comedians, musicians and more. Instagram did this exact thing for photographers and models. Let’s do what we can do to make sure this happens on Medium! So we are saying that centralising on one platform is the only way forwards? That may be right, but I feel like that's a point that could do with a hell of a lot more consideration ...

pimterry 10y ago
> So we are saying that centralising on one platform is the only way forwards? Peter Gasston has a great talk on this that's well worth watching: https://vimeo.com/181110920 https://vimeo.com/181110920. The short answer is: right now, yes, that's becoming a fairly dominant strategy across the board, but the future isn't necessarily as bad as it looks.
- StevePerkins 10y ago
  ... hosted on Vimeo instead of YouTube, heh.
- jarofgreen 10y ago
  Was an interesting talk, thanks!
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ohstopitu 10y ago
and why Medium? No seriously, what's the value proposition? Youtube at the time had an awesome "free" service when most others were littered with ads and had terrible video players. Instagram had an awesome mobile service that was hip and clicked with it's users. Medium is at best a crappy bloggr that was once pretty awesome but now that it has a lot more users (and worse a lot more writers), the quality of content has dropped significantly. I've read articles about from people who are basically using Medium to do content marketing and worse yet, do dumb challenges like 1+ article / day challenge - case and point: https://medium.com/@larrykim https://medium.com/@larrykim Medium is quickly turning into hipster 9gag or buzzfeed. I'm definitely not saying we don't need a Youtube for written content, but imo, Medium is not yet it.
- iamatworknow 10y ago
  Y'know what Medium reminds me of? Geocities with fewer features. Honestly, everything you can do on Medium you could do on any easy-to-use website generator from the early 90's.

pimterry 10y ago

> So we are saying that centralising on one platform is the only way forwards? Peter Gasston has a great talk on this that's well worth watching: https://vimeo.com/181110920 https://vimeo.com/181110920. The short answer is: right now, yes, that's becoming a fairly dominant strategy across the board, but the future isn't necessarily as bad as it looks.

StevePerkins 10y ago
... hosted on Vimeo instead of YouTube, heh.
jarofgreen 10y ago
Was an interesting talk, thanks!

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ohstopitu 10y ago

and why Medium? No seriously, what's the value proposition? Youtube at the time had an awesome "free" service when most others were littered with ads and had terrible video players. Instagram had an awesome mobile service that was hip and clicked with it's users. Medium is at best a crappy bloggr that was once pretty awesome but now that it has a lot more users (and worse a lot more writers), the quality of content has dropped significantly. I've read articles about from people who are basically using Medium to do content marketing and worse yet, do dumb challenges like 1+ article / day challenge - case and point: https://medium.com/@larrykim https://medium.com/@larrykim Medium is quickly turning into hipster 9gag or buzzfeed. I'm definitely not saying we don't need a Youtube for written content, but imo, Medium is not yet it.

iamatworknow 10y ago
Y'know what Medium reminds me of? Geocities with fewer features. Honestly, everything you can do on Medium you could do on any easy-to-use website generator from the early 90's.