After 10 months of stealth operation, we are finally showing people what we’re working on. It’s nice to finally be able to talk about what we’re doing, and more importantly, show you what we’re doing.There’s a long way to go, but our vision of revealing the people and activity behind your browser has taken its first step in the public eye.Very exciting.We’re looking hard for feedback. We have some time before we release publicly, so your comments will be taken very seriously, and possibly included in the final release.GigaOm and David Cohen at Colorado Startups both were very kind in their impressions of Me.dium.In both articles, they talk about the “aha moment”. This is the point when you stop wondering what’s going on, and realize the potential for what we’re doing.Seeing people around you is what we have every day in the real world. The “use case” is more elusive than a faster modem or a cheaper phone call. But given the choice between being around people or being alone, we believe people will choose to be around people.Have a read at the articles above, and play around with Me.dium for a bit. If you have an “aha moment”, please share it with us.Looking forward to hearing from you.Kimbal

So, I know we go on and on here trying to describe what Me.dium is. We’ve added an FAQ and a Tutorial that might also help. But since we’re not talking about cheaper phone calls here, it’s always a bit difficult to describe. Most of the time, it comes down to an “aha” moment that triggers the understanding.I think David Cohen does a great job of taking a stab at if for us, so take a look through and maybe the hidden world of people and activity behind your browser will make a bit more sense.What do you think?

Me.dium was profiled in GigaOm today. Liz Gannes took a look at what we’re doing and wrote a great piece given our early stage and “still in private” status.The interesting thing from my perspective is while we spent some time talking with Liz and going through the potential use cases for Me.dium and all the different levels of value that the user can access once you can see the hidden world behind your browser, in the end, it was the “cool” factor of actually seeing a bunch of people, including some friends, hop on over The Daily Camera piece that was the “aha” factor for her.Again, reinforcing The Real-Time Human Factor that Fred Wilson talks about. Seeing people around you fundamentally changes the way you act and the decisions you make. Why shouldn’t the activity of people have the same effect on your online world?Unfortunately, it also reinforces the dilemma we have around explaining what Me.dium is. I guess I’ll take the easy route and rely on what Brad Feld said in the Daily Camera article:“The notion of ‘real-time discovery` is a little new to people, but it`s super-exciting once you start using it to help navigate around the Web.”Please take a minute to comment on, and Digg the article if you can.Thanks again for your support with the Me.dium Private Beta.

One of the most difficult problems on the web today, is loss of context. And by context, I mean the relationship between things in a particular situation.In the course of developing a collective intellect with artifacts from around the net, content is extracted and republished in a way that can break down our understanding of these relationships. Think about how we mail around links or clip items on the web to share with other people or affinity groups. Even though I know you may like a certain bookmarked site, I don’t really know why or how much. This problem of intellectual integrity is especially challenging in the context of social media platforms.The ability to collaborate and disseminate information is now an unstoppable and key element of online reality. Information is fluid and social. But even the most simple piece of information simply does not make much sense without context. But, if we can bring back people and the relationships between things, we can regain the lost circumstances of our actions.By sharing our clickstreams, Me.dium lets us see, in the moment, how people negotiate the same contextual world as it relates to the information we want. No clipping required.

Hey, this is Carol; You’ll probably find me at the local coffee joint hiding behind my MacBook Pro, but I’m really the Intellectual Property person here at Me.dium.Even though I am lucky enough to see how Me.dium works under the covers, I’m actually lured to the tool for its sheer entertainment value and, of course, its ability to help me complete my daily tasks. A quick visit to my daily research site, FreshPatents, and Me.dium recommended IP Law Daily which is now part of my daily regimen.Anyway, now that you know how I use the tool, I want to know how Me.dium helps you, what you like about it, and how we can make it better. And don’t forget to invite your friends!