Know automatically where your friends are on the Web
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Let’s share anything, even your ‘position’ of you, so tiny in the Internet universe. Medium isn’t the first startup which plans to do it. But as its competitors, it’s working on this big feature, close to be available to modern browsers.
So far, there are you and them. The classic situation. You: sitting in front of your computer, alone, discovering the Net by your own, and talking to them, doing the same stuff on other websites, on their own. Media involved: Instant messaging, IP phone calling, emailing, blogging and social bookmarking.
Medium plans to add a companion to do this automatically. When activated, the add-on will tell on which websites you are, and provides you a IM client to talk to other Medium users. It’s like setting a GPS for the Internet, or Frappr.com social webmaps, or very closer to the concept, it’s like social-bookmarking in real time.
Currently, Medium is testing its agent in close beta, expects to launch its client by the end of the year, says GigaOM. We hope they would bring more features, like integrating MySpace contact list or allowing one to discover others’ friends web position. Among their competition, Itzle users can point a specific place on a page, and SamePlace is doing fine with a Jabber client.
Oct 31, 2006 | By Nuno
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Nuno, thanks for a (second, no less!) mention of SamePlace, to be fair however I must point out that, in the current version, the “virtual presence” feature has been left out (the program was rewrote from scratch to provide a base for MANY more things). That feature will come back in the next months in the form of a plugin.