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“We just want to be able to tweet onto our own website.”
And turning away a bit from Facebook video: “Our video lives on YouTube. We’re going to program for the YouTube audience.”
“The way I’m thinking about it right now is that we’ve moved from RSS readers and desktop web to very much having our stuff mediated by a series of icons on homescreens.”
The Verge is launching a new gadget blog that is built for Facebook. (Articles will also run on The Verge’s website.)
In a Q&A, Vox Media co-founder Tyler Bleszinski reflects on his time at the company.
Recode, Reuters, Popular Science, The Week, Mic, The Verge, and USA Today’s FTW have all shut off reader comments in the past year. Here’s how they’re all using social media to encourage reader discussion.
“We want to use technology as a way to define pop culture, in the way Rolling Stone used music and Wired used the early Internet.”
Developers, designers, and writers from across the Vox Media family are getting involved in building new storytelling tools for the tech site and plotting its next phase of growth.
The tech site has always been good about providing a persistent structure for source credit. Now it’s linking out more prominently, too. Justin Ellis and Joshua Benton