Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle — the CTO of Human Made — and Brian Krogsgard.
In this episode, Joe and Brian talk about Medium & WordPress and whether Medium and similar platforms are a significant threat to WordPress. They also discuss the benefits and challenges of open source platforms versus proprietary ones, and WordPress’s potential as a lower level item in the site stack.
Links
- Interview with Matt
- Joe’s REST API talk
- Vienna WordPress app concept
- Billionaire’s Typewriter
- What to Consider When the Platforms Show up With Money
- Medium.com
- WordPress.com Calypso
- Medium compared to LiveJournal
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Fantastic talk Joe & Brian! I love how you worked from comparisons of Editor experiences all the way to Snapchat, archives, history and the value, or not, of content libraries. A wide ranging talk and each element is so hugely fundamental for me. TY!!