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Let the Games begin: Mento has exciting updates!August 4 2008

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

• A new Mento Box
• Channels 2.0
• Mento Points
• Discover
• Feedback Everywhere

The Small Things

• Easy Re-Sharing
• Navigating Your Links

Make the Most of Now: Mento goes MobileJune 22 2008

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

Skitch Love! Better Screenshots on the MacJune 1 2008

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

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