WordPress's founder says that up to 72,000 blogs per hour were defecting from Tumblr to WordPress just with a hint of a Yahoo purchase. That's bad news for Yahoo.
Medium's hypothesis has always been that people create better things when they work together. The publishing platform's newest tool helps its authors do just that.
David Karp, the microblog's founder, announced the news in a blogpost yesterday. The four-strong team, which he described as an "experiment" had successfully placed stories about Tumblr's more interesting creators throughout the media, earning itself a James Beard award in the process.
Companies realize the importance of branded content--but very few do it well (unless their goal is to turn off readers, or perhaps put them to sleep). Six basic tips to help your copy shine.
With no business model in sight, the Q&A site cofounded by two ex-Facebookers has launched blogs, bringing it competition in new platforms such as Medium, Branch, and Svbtle.
Many people coming online for the first time will never even see a PC or a laptop; they will read on mobile devices. So the format of content must rapidly change to meet them.
