A special thanks to Ajaxian for telling the Ajax community about Me.dium.And thanks to the Ajax gurus out there that have given us a lot of great feedback.A lot of people have asked our plans for IE7. The answer is that we are planning that in the New Year, after a month or two of getting the UI right. When you invite your friends, they will get a reminder to download FireFox if they don’t have it.The experience Me.dium changes fundamentally when you add friends, so please go for it. We compare it to the town/city you live in. Me.dium is just a better place when your friends are on it.Keep up the great feedback.Kimbal

We appreciate everyone’s patience and participation in our Private Beta release of Me.dium. Please take a moment to read through ‘What is Me.dium’ , our FAQ and tutorial if you find yourself getting stuck before hitting that ‘aha moment’ while using Me.dium.We’ve got several great discussions on the product direction going on in our forums and would love to hear from more of you.ThanksThe Me.dium Team.

The New York Times ran an article today called Entrepreneurs See a Web Guided by Common Sense. Within in this article a prescient observation:

Their goal is to add a layer of meaning on top of the existing Web that would make it less of a catalog and more of a guide…

Meaning is all about our sense of reality and dips as deep as our own view of a thing’s worthiness. When I am surfing with Me.dium and I see recommendations and a shared world view around those recommendations, these artifacts take on a heightened sense of implicit importance.My path through the Internet is directed by the guidance of other people and the intelligence their own surfing experience brings to the system. My tasks - what I am trying to achieve with my Internet browsing - is aligned with the other people who are working to answer the same questions I am. I do less sifting and more learning.That’s common sense.

One of the hardest struggles we’ve had since we started developing Me.dium is coming up with a clear, concise description of what it is, who it’s for and why you should care. We’ve gone through reams of Dunder Mifflin 24 pound Acid-Free going back and forth several times between detailed product descriptions targeted at Gen-Whatever to address their perceived pain-points and task-focused benefits, and Matrix-esque, red-pill trips that follow Alice as she chases the bushy rabbit tail down the ever-deepening abyss of paranormal eco-systems.Neither seem to work too well. What does seem to work, however, is when something happens on Me.dium that triggers that aha! moment. Several of the Me.dia that have written about Me.dium have referenced this as well.That’s why we created the Me.dium Mome.nts Forum. Please tell us a bit about the experience that you’ve had with Me.dium that made it all start to make sense for you. Maybe if we can find some similarities, we’ll know how to talk about our product…And remember to invite your friends!

New West, a great Rocky Mountain area blog, covered Me.dium this week.Many thanks to the writer, Mark Phillips, a friend of mine and fellow technology enthusiast.Mark is the second writer/analyst to talk about Me.dium as “Social Browsing”.We are (as is any start-up in a new category), trying to figure out what Me.dium is.Are we enabling Social Browsing? Are we building a People Dimension to the web? Are we cross-internet chat?Please pitch in and share your thoughts/impressions/marketing genius.Kimbal