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Ev Williams: Medium Wants To Help Build A Sustainable Economic Model For Journalism

At the <a target="_blank" href="http://festival.launch.co/index.html">Launch Conference</a> in San Francisco today, Twitter co-founder Ev Williams took the stage to talk to conference founder Jason Ca

Social Conversation Platform Branch Launches To Public, Encourages Users To “Write Like You Talk” With Shorter Thread Starters

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.branch.com/">Branch</a>, a startup focused on enabling high quality public conversations on the web, is today launching to the public. The company is notably backed

Medium Becomes A More Full-Featured Writing Platform, Adds Stats And Explains Lack Of Commenting

We’ve told you a bit about the latest writing and blogging platform from Ev Williams’ new product, Medium, and the team has been incrementally adding things, and talent, to the service to

Medium Hires Former ICM Literary Agent, Kate Lee, As Its Director Of Content

We told you a bit about <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/15/ev-williams-takes-to-medium-to-discuss-the-true-purpose-of-his-new-publishing-tool/">Ev Williams and his vision for the future of pub

Ev Williams Takes To Medium To Discuss The True Purpose Of His New Publishing Tool

You might have heard a few things about Ev Williams and crew's new product, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/08/14/medium-publishing/">Medium</a>. To some, it seems like "just another blogging pla

Obvious-Backed Branch Comes Out Of Public Beta To Foster Conversations Online

Back in March, Obvious Corporation, the mini accelerator founded by Biz Stone, Ev Williams and early Twitter employee Jason Goldman, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/06/branch-obvious-partnersh

Plancast Founder Mark Hendrickson Joins Obvious-Incubated Lift As Head Of Product

<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/28/biz-stone-steps-back-from-twitter-to-relaunch-obvious-with-ev-williams-and-jason-goldman/">Last June</a>, Biz Stone and Evan Williams teamed up with long-tim

With $2M In Tow, Branch Teams Up With Twitter Co-Founders’ Obvious For ‘New Brand Of Discourse’

<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/28/biz-stone-steps-back-from-twitter-to-relaunch-obvious-with-ev-williams-and-jason-goldman/">Last June</a>, Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone announced that he was

Twitter Founders Put Their Weight Behind A New Startup: Lift

<a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/twitter">Twitter</a> co-founders <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/biz-stone">Biz Stone</a>, <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/evan-williams"

Obvious Already Ramping Up With Two New Founding Team Hires

Back in January of 2009, we noted that a "<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2009/01/23/superstar-team-to-launch-flash-mmog-called-ohai/">superstar team</a>" was about to launch in the MMO space, with a

Biz Stone Steps Back From Twitter To Relaunch Obvious With Ev Williams And Jason Goldman

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-318791" title="oo" src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/oo.png" alt="" />Twitter co-founder <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/biz-sto

Breaking: iPhone, Apple TV to receive updates in 2008

If rumors from Apple Insider are to be taken as truth, next year will see two new iPhones from Apple. The first will be a minor upgrade, likely nothing more than a storage bump from 8GB to 16GB, match