Me.dium: Browsing 2.0 Awareness Widget

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Me.dium: Browsing 2.0 Awareness Widget

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Me.dium is a Browsing 2.0 Awareness service with a social browsing base. Even if they sound as the very same thing, they are not. Me.dium belongs to some of the progressive ideas of web 2.0 and deserves to be added such a buzzword because it takes something simple as browse tracking and converts it into a social tool. there are other start ups already gearing up in this arena, but Me-dium is without a doubt the most progressive of them from the concept itself, real time/live browse tracking inside a social sphere.

I tried Me-dium back when it was in private beta and I was not that impressed since it is an old idea, but as always it is about the execution, and they seem to be ready now that they have finally opened the service, something that is demonstrated by launching a IE7 plugin, a move that is now a staple of “being ready” for general consumption, all of the extension services that got famous as a Mozilla exclusive experience never got big or revealed their public agenda until such a move was done, and the news don`t end with that, it get sealed with a widget of the service.

The widget comes in Javascript, something not surprising given its nature and that it is the first widget released, even if the concept behind Me.dium makes it a excellent and perfect fit for Social networks that will not happen right now, but i guess that we will have to wait for a flash or else widget for that to realize.

me.dium widget

This is another social awareness tool that like twitter moves around a question, instead of what are you doing right now?, the questions is where are you browsing now?, the “do”answered by the “where”.

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