IE8 and Me.dium sitting in a tree

While we were in Boulder, Colorado, we had a chance to sit down with a few of our customers and get some insight into their experiences with some of the new technologies announced at MIX.  One of those partners was Me.dium, a company providing an add-on to the browser to provide a social browsing experience.  Me.dium graphically connects users with their friends and others enabling users to interact online, similarly to how one interacts with people in the real world.

We met with David Mandell, Peter Newcomb and Robert Reich, founders of Me.dium, as they shared their experiences working with Internet Explorer 8 and how Activities and WebSlices are helping to expand the reach of their offering as well as enhance the user's browsing experience.  They were able to implement WebSlices within their existing content management framework that they developed as well as bring the Me.dium social browsing graph to the end user via Activities.  The end user can highlight a term on any web page and start the Me.dium activity which shows them contextually to that term their social browsing experience.

Take a look at the video then head on over to the IE developer center and look at the Activity and WebSlices whitepapers to learn more and implement yours today!