Just now installed the Me.dium update to their firefox plugin. What a great makeover - seems a lot more intuitive and the “talk” area has been cleaned up quite a bit. Seems it’s more obvious who is saying what, from where, and also has some nice hover effects. It also seems that the web cloud/map is much more responsive to navigation across different links/pages.

Now I wonder if it would be possible to have a plugin mode that takes up less browser real-estate. My browser side-bar is becoming a coveted spot, and apparently can only handle one site/plugin at a time. I’ve been using the SlimTimer sidebar to track some work I’ve been doing, and this conflicts with the Me.dium plugin.

Perhaps a simple option to show the number of sites in the cloud, along with number of people at those sites in the Firefox status bar. That way you could probably get a good indication if you’re in a high traffic area worth investigating by invoking the me.dium plugin. Additionally, the ability to send messages to others browsing in your area is nice, but not always necessary and I believe the important information is contained in the sites around you as well as the number of people visiting those sites.

Just my two cents, FWIW, but kudos to the me.dium folks for the shiny new plugin.

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