Interesting Services

Nov 282006

I was pointed to a couple of very interesting services over the weekend that attempt to cluster people around the sites they are currently visiting.

They are InCircles and Medium. The former is something you install in your site (see the sidebar) and it allows people to chat while visiting it (to you or each other), the later is an extension to your browser that shows friends and other bits and pieces for the site you are visiting. Sort of site based dynamic social networks.

I have to admit though I still haven’t really got my head around Me.dium (although it looks like it might do something quite clever!!!), the InCircles client on the other hand is pretty transparent and easy to use. Interesting concepts.

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  1. David Mandell says:
    November 28, 2006 at 10:22 am

    Hey Scott,

    It definitely takes a bit of time to get your head around Me.dium. We’ve found it helps tremendously if you use it with a few friends, but once you get the bigger picture, it all starts to fall into place. We like to think of it as being able to see the world of people and activity behind your browser for the first time. There’s no task-specific use case, but more of how your habits and choices change once you can actually see what’s going on around you…

    Feel free to add me as a friend (david) and chat a bit.

  2. Scott Rutherford says:
    November 28, 2006 at 10:22 am

    Hi David,

    Thanks for taking the time to comment and invite me for a chat. I’ve just added you as a friend so speak soon…….

    Cheers
    Scott.

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