Let the Games begin: Mento has exciting updates!
While one of part of the world is getting ready for some amazing athletics and fireworks, Mento just finished its own marathon of updates. During the last month, we overhauled the look of Mento in many places, added a bunch of new features and simplified a few others. Today we’re excited to finally tell you about them and give you a peek of what’s still to come.
What’s New: The Big Things
The Small Things
Make the Most of Now: Mento goes Mobile
On a recent trip to London, I saw the subway plastered with advertisements by one of the big carriers: Make the most of Now was the bright-red message for selling their newest mobile internet offering. Clever copywriting at work, I thought, and immediately started day-dreaming about the opening line of this blog post.
So, next time when you’re on the subway, waiting endlessly for your easyJet flight to announce the gate, or simply enjoying the summer sun in your back yard: you can now call up Mento on your cell phone anytime and anywhere with our mobile-optimized interface at http://m.mento.info/
This version is still in testing and we’d love to get your feedback as always. Right now, you can access:
- Your Mento Mix
- Your Inbox
- Your Network’s Recent Updates (summary)
- and any user’s links, including your own of course
You’ll notice that all outgoing links are re-formatted for mobile viewing. This currently happens by default (for the convenience of the majority of mobile users), but we’ll make this is an optional setting in the near future. Until then, You can also scroll to the bottom of any external page and select “View in HTML” to see the original page.
Happy Subway Surfing!
Skitch Love! Better Screenshots on the Mac
We love getting your ideas and feedback about Mento. When you want to share yours, head over to our forum at GetSatisfaction, where we’ll always respond and follow-up with you.
That said, we’re especially happy to announce a new Mento feature that was first suggested by Sascha, one of our earliest and most loyal users. Visit Sascha on Mento.
Today, we’re adding support for Skitch, the popular and awesome screenshot annotation tool for the Mac made by the folks at Plasq.
Adding screenshots to your Mento links has long been possible with our Firefox extension but since many of our Mac users prefer using Safari, we thought we could do better.
Get Started
- You’ll need to download Skitch (it’s free) if you don’t have it already
- Next, activate the Mento + Skitch feature and follow the short instructions to set-up your Mento account in Skitch
How does it work?
- Take a screenshot with Skitch (even add annotations if you’d like)
- Webpost it to the Mento account you created in Skitch
- Open the Mento Box as usual and we’ll add your screenshot to that link
The super-awesome Sascha, who suggested the idea, made a short video to show you what that looks like:
We hope you’ll like this new feature! And remember: your great ideas could soon be part of Mento, too. Share them with us today and please keep the feedback coming!
Thanks Sascha!