Posted a code update tonight with the following changes:
Fixed some minor bugs related to preview and searching for users on the post page.
The interface for adding meme recipients to a circle after a post has been simplified in hopes that it is now easier to understand.
Sorting the memebox makes more sense now. Nickname based sorts are done correctly, you can sort on read and unread messages, sort state survives deletes.
You can see who a memestreams inbox message was CCed to, and you can "reply all."
You now have a sent items folder in the MemeBox. All items you send privately will appear there from now on, but no effort has been made to recreate content from what you've sent in the past. I'll make a few more tweaks to this soon. I realize you'd prefer to sort it based on who messages where sent to rather than who they are from, and I realize the message you are getting when the folder is empty is confusing.

As always, let us know if you run into any problems with these updates.

"Liad Agmon, CEO of Delver, says that the site connects information about a user's social network with Web search results, "so you are searching the Web through the prism of your social graph."

What a brilliant idea...

Another company gets funded to develop a feature MemeStreams has...

You can now preview your posts before submitting them. Please let me know if you run into any problems with this.

I've posted two updates to the site tonight that Acidus wrote a few weeks ago. I'm sorry they didn't make it out sooner but I've been busy with the Christmas holidays and the like.

The first is an updated set of MemeStreams Bookmarklets. You do not have to upgrade to these if you don't want to, but good testers who report problems are always valuable to us. They should work a bit better than the old ones, particularly when selecting text on a page with a bunch of iframes, and we're now back to one peice of cross browser javascript code, which is nice.

The second is that if you're running IE or Safari you might notice your search bar is glowing. You can install MemeStreams as a search provider with one click now in both those browsers.

Of course, those of you who regularly search MemeStreams may have a complaint or two about the performance. We're fixing that soon. Its entirely a disk I/O problem and we'll be buying a new server with better storage performance in a few weeks. Unfortunately I am going out of the country for two weeks so I won't be able to get that done until I return, but the new machine should be online sometime in February.

Thanks Acidus for the nice bits of code!

Industrial Memetics has recently decided to try to clean up our image. So, in spite of the fact that we now have 5000 business cards which say "Information Warfare for the People," we want a new slogan that isn't alienating to uninitiates who don't know what an information war is and don't want to participate in one. We came up with a couple of ideas, but we'd thought we'd throw this up on the site and see if any of you have any suggestions. Here are our ideas so far. What are yours?

MemeStreams: Your Information Society
MemeStreams: What smart people click

BTW, if you have places in your town where you could leave some of those business cards, we sure have a lot of them. Branded bottle openners too. They look nice. We need to get rid of them, and hopefully promote the site. Let us know. We'll mail 'em to ya.

Also, if you happen to know anyone who might be interested in a MemeStreams like system as an Intranet knowledge management tool, please let us know. We think we've got a pretty refined approach to sharing useful links, and we know a lot of professional teams would benefit from have a private system they could use for such a purpose. We're in search of a first customer who can help us get the feature set right for such an application.

We posted a significant update to MemeStreams today. There are two primary aspects. The first is that posting is now much more free reigned. You can reply to your own posts. You can reply multiple times. You can post the same url to your blog multiple times. If you do the later, it will not result in the repeated promotion of that url on the main page.

The other aspect is anti-spam. New user registration is now open again. New users will not show up on the main page or in the "recent posters" section of the weblogs page. They are relegated to the "new users" section of the weblogs page until one of the admins blesses them, or someone who already has a good reputation recommends a link from them. So, those of you who can, please watch the new users for interesting people who you might want to bring into the fold.

This is a big update so please, as always, let us know if anything is not working properly.

This morning saw the most substantial attack on the site by spammers in it's operating history. I am about 50% done with some changes to the site that will make it easier to use for regular users while preventing new users from getting their content on the main page. I hope to be able to post an update this weekend. Until that time, new account registration has been disabled.

As usual one discovers some bugs as a large change bakes in over the course of a day. I fixed a number of issues too minor to mention. Let me know if you find more... More soon...

The "Forward to a Friend" page has been removed from the site. This is an attempt to make MemeStreams a bit easier for new users to understand, by making the user interface more similar to email. You can now choose who you are forwarding a post to on the same page on which you compose it.

This change simplifies a few aspects of the site. In particular, there are now buttons throughout the site that give you one click access to the interface needed to send a MemeStreams user a private message.

As always, let us know if you have any feedback or if you run into any bugs.

The search engine problem has been fixed. To continue to gloat about our conviction to the MemeStreams cause I want to point out that some of this was fixed using the ssh client on my Sidekick while driving from Atlanta to Nashville.

Search engine problem fixed