Re:Medium's Evan Williams to Publishers: Your Website Is Toast
by smacktoward on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @12:41PM
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All of those worked out how to make money for Evan Williams quite well, though, so there's that.
Re:Medium's Evan Williams to Publishers: Your Website Is Toast
by ksk on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @04:51PM
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Indeed. Money comes later as a business model has not been the most statistically successful model. ;)
Re:Medium's Evan Williams to Publishers: Your Website Is Toast
by carterehsmith on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @09:48PM
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But Medium has parallax scrolling and "social integration" features that will disrupt the news business, and perhaps all of our world later. Checkmate, dude?
Re:Medium's Evan Williams to Publishers: Your Website Is Toast
by drannex on Friday September 18, 2015 @11:23PM
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I would like to say Tumblr does allow content creators to make money, I make a good 600-1200 extra a month off of tumblr due to sponsorship posts and advertisements on the actual blogs (google ads)
So, Williams starts off at Blogger, which hasn't solved the problem of making money for content creators yet, really. To be fair to it, nor has Tumblr or Wordpress. Then he moves to Odeo, a pdocasting company, which fails to solve the monetization problem for podcast creators so hard that it pivots into enterprise video library SaaS solutions. Then he moves to Twitter, which isn't even trying to solve the problem of how to compensate content creators and is frankly not looking so good in terms of making enough money to pay itself. And now Williams is at Medium, where they haven't solved that problem QUITE YET.
Quite yet.
God help me, some days I feel like I'm just staring out into a world gone mad.