Startup promotes community Web surfing

Me.dium.com lets you surf with the crowd

[phranque]

from BusinessWeek.com [businessweek.com]

Me.dium tracks your Web browsing habits and reveals which sites are being visited at any given moment by people and friends with similar patterns. Those people and their sites appear as colored icons in a window that Me.dium puts on the side of a Web browsing session.

You can shut Me.dium off at any time, and it automatically suspends itself when a user visits banking sites and other secure Web pages.

[rogerd]

Interesting story, phranque, thanks for posting it. At first glance, it seems a bit creepy. Then again, quite a few forums show "Who's Online", "Who's reading this", etc., and/or let you create buddy lists and show their online status at that site. It seems like there are some kinds of sites where you might want to interact with other visitors, and some where you'd prefer to surf solo.