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07 Mar 08
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social tools need to default to asynchronous, with plenty of value there, and in some cases an easy way to find value in facilitated synchronous communication as well
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I'd rather have a good solid Attention Data profile that I could expose to friends, perhaps along with my OPML file and "Lifestream" to provide a BlogRovr-like functionality or recommendations available to me after I do what I'm doing - not while I'm in the middle of doing it.
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Like most social apps, it only "works" if you have a lot of friends using it.
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The thought of chatting with strangers about whatever site I happened to be browsing never crossed my mind..
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The biggest plus for it was that it let my friend instant message with me while he was at work because his company hadn't blocked me.dium like they had IM and meebo.
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‚ÄúYou and your friend are trying to accomplish a common task‚Ä?. How does a browser plugin that lets me a) see where my friend is, and b) chat, accomplish this any better than an IM conversation where we send each other links? It‚Äôs simpler, most IM clients support logging so our collaboration is saved, and it keeps me from being distracted by the unimportant sites a friend browses until he messages me with an important one.
* ‚ÄúYou are trying to do something on your own and meet others who are trying to do the same thing‚Ä?. Forums, chat rooms, social networks, a site‚Äôs own social features: there are dozens of better ways to accomplish this more easily with fewer privacy concerns.
* ‚ÄúYou are observing the patterns of crowds nearby and so you are able to discover new things.‚Ä? There‚Äôs far, far too much noise in people‚Äôs browsing habits for you to be able to outmatch the performance of a simple search for similar sites. Other tools solve the ‚Äúdiscover new things‚Ä? problem with much less effort. StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, etc.
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11 Feb 08
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Me.dium Secures $15M Series B
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Since DEMO, the service has gone through a round of improvements and revisions. I spoke to founder and CMO David Mandell
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19 Jun 07
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12 Jun 07
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- You and your friend are trying to accomplish a common task;
- You are trying to do something on your own and meet others who are trying to do the same thing;
- You are observing the patterns of crowds nearby and so you are able to discover new things.
Me.dium's collaborative browsing vision
When we wrote about Me.dium over four months ago, we described it as 'social browsing'. Perhaps a refinement of this would be collaborative browsing, and that would be a more precise definition of what the company is trying to do. At the heart of Me.dium is the idea that by enabling real-time discovery and communication during browsing, this will enable people to get things done faster and in ways not possible before.
During my interview with the company founders, we discussed the typical scenarios for using Me.dium:
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So the $15M dollar question is what is Me.dium planning to do next? In a nutshell, the company is planning to spend the money on refining and scaling its sophisticated matching technology. The secret sauce here is in connecting people based on their browsing patterns.
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11 Jun 07
Martin Lindner"trying to do something on your own and meet others who are trying to do the same thing - observing the patterns of crowds nearby and so you are able to discover new things.- The secret sauce here is in connecting people based on their browsing patterns.
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