A website launched by Twitter co-founders as a publishing platform for stories, memories and news was open August 15 to members of the hit one-to-many text messaging service. A preview version of Medium.com, launched by Biz Stone and Evan Williams, was live with collections such as "This Happened to Me" stories and "When I Was a Kid" pictures.
Stone and Williams are building the platform through their Obvious Corporation, an enterprise named for the notion that many great ideas seem "obvious" in retrospect.
"We believe publishing, and media much more broadly, is important. It's easy to forget this given how much pointless and destructive media is in the world," Williams said.