Twitter's Publishing Offspring, Medium, Tries Out Commenting

Biz Stone's and Ev Williams's fledgling online publishing platform takes a few more social steps toward maturity. Medium, from the same minds that brought us Twitter, is already a new kind of online publishing platform...and now it's trying out a novel commenting system for published pieces: direct-feedback "notes" for the author. An email to early beta-phase testers today describes the noting process as being as easy as moving your cursor over the text you'd like to comment on, clicking on a little "+" icon, and typing in your feedback. The trick is that only you and the author of the piece get to see your comment at first. On receipt of an email concerning the comment, the author can reply, or permanently "hide" the note, or choose to make it public--whereafter anyone else can comment on the note, too.Read Full Story Continue reading at 'Fast Company'

[ Fast Company | 2013-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]

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