On April 1st, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone posed a question on a company blog: "What is Jelly?" The answer, he said, is a new company and product named after the jellyfish. Unmentioned in the post is that Jelly is the second jellyfish-themed product with which Stone has been associated. Before Jelly, Stone advised a lesser-known Q&A startup named Fluther. A fluther — it rhymes with "brother" — refers to a group of jellyfish. If you want to know where Jelly is heading, Fluther is the place to start.
Jelly plans to take core ideas from Fluther and remake them in an app purpose-built for mobile devices, according to a person familiar with the company's plans. Fluther, whose team was acquired by Twitter in 2010 but remains operational,...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/27/4470958/first-clues-emerge-about-jelly-twitter-co-founders-mysterious-new
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