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Mento Blog

News, Tips, Notes and Smiles from the team that brings you www.mento.info


Let the Games begin: Mento has exciting updates!August 4

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.

The New Mento Box

What’s New: The Big Things

The Small Things

Make the Most of Now: Mento goes MobileJune 22

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:

You’ll notice that all outgoing links are re-formatted for mobile viewing. This currently happens by default (for the convenience

Skitch Love! Better Screenshots on the MacJune 1

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.

Skitch 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

  1. You’ll need to download Skitch (it’s free) if you don’t have it already
  2. Next, activate the Mento + Skitch feature and follow
You’re incredible! Let’s get this blog rolling thenMay 13

Mento had a phenomenal week, although it surely meant a lot of work on our end — and a delay in starting to blog regularly here. We’ll get in the hang of it, stay with us :)

First of all, a big thanks goes to Jason Kincaid and Mike Arrington for being the first to give Mento the stage at TechCrunch and allowing so many of you to find out about our young endeavor with the extended review that Jason put together. We’ll soon respond to Jason’s points in another post right here — but today, something else is more important to me:

Most of all, I’d like to thank our new users for joining so enthusiastically this week, for twittering so adamantly about it and for sharing your experience by inviting more friends. An encore round of thanks goes especially to the 58 of you who took time out of your busy and connected lives to send us your feedback. You told us about your first impressions, the problems you encountered and the ideas that we’ll take to heart to improve your future

Hello Mento — Introducing a new way to share links with friends and the peeps who matter to youApril 30

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