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What's a "medium.com" and why is it all over HN?

• lixef 13y ago
  To me it looks kind of similar to https://svbtle.com/ https://svbtle.com/, which is a network of chosen writers with multiple blogs aggregated to a single site.
• austengary 13y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5591238 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5591238
• itsprofitbaron 13y ago
  Medium.com is a publishing platform for the sharing of ideas and experiences. It's founded by Evan Williams[1] of Blogger, Twitter etc. [1] https://twitter.com/ev https://twitter.com/ev
  • hmsimha 13y ago
    and Biz Stone, another twitter cofounder
    • itsprofitbaron 13y ago
      Biz Stone is a founder of Twitter, Obvious and now Jelly. I don't consider Biz Stone to be a founder of Medium as it operates independently of Obvious. Obvious have invested/incubated Medium, Branch, Jelly, Lift, Beyond Meat, Good Fit and Neighborland. (There may be more but I'm pretty sure that's all of them) Medium, Branch and Jelly are what the Obvious founders are now focusing on (although they sit on some of those other startups boards): Ev - Medium, Branch - Jason and Jelly - Biz
      • hmsimha 13y ago
        You may very well be right, I had assumed more involvement on his part based on this article: https://medium.com/obvious/e74637f2fe22 https://medium.com/obvious/e74637f2fe22