Hello Mento — Introducing a new way to share links with friends and the peeps who matter to you
Life is exciting when you get a new toy! And that’s what the web feels like these days: like a curious child, you get to explore, unwrap and play with new sites every day. Some look pretty, some are complicated, others are clones and a few are exceptional and a joy to visit again.
Today, I’d like to present you with Mento and invite you to play with it! Use it to share links with friends, family and co-workers — in a way that’s more fun, less overwhelming and makes it easier to stay in touch.
Why Mento? We all send and receive emails about great videos and interesting links. But because email is being used for everything from travel confirmations to birthday greetings, it’s a big bag of everything and not a good filter. Only the very most important links get sent by email and everything else stays in our browsers, unshared and lonely. You might surely use services like del.icio.us, which are handy for saving links, but they’re not made for sending links to someone, let alone adding a personal message or continuing the conversation.
Sharing links should work better: it should be smarter than receiving too many emails, more personal and focused on the people who matter to you, take far less effort and connect to everything else you already use to stay in touch. Those are the goals of Mento and we now made our first step towards them with the public release of its first version:
Mento is leaving its private beta this week and opening its doors after months of development and improvements. New toys are indeed exciting!
Sign-ups are by invitation-only because that creates the most meaningful networks — that means you can be invited by a friend or sign up to a receive a personal invitation from the Mento team. Check our Facebook page to connect with friends who are already using Mento or request an invitation on Mento’s homepage.
We’ll be listening closely to your feedback and improving the service so that it comes closer to what you expect from it — and continues to feel as exciting as it did on your first day.
Have fun!
Greg
– find me at mento.info/grex
Where to go from here:
- Request an Invitation or Find friends who are already using Mento (via Facebook)
- Check out the links that our awesome and earliest users are sharing: Boaz, Dietmar, Sascha, Ute, Lars, Artis, Ole, Bastian, Michael, … we’ll be featuring them and many others regularly over the coming weeks right here.