Meebo me Meebo you October 13, 2006
Posted by Angus in Web2.0.trackback
Found a great Ajax app a few weeks ago. Have a look at Meebo.
It is a web based IM consolidator - so you can have your MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, GMail/Jabber and AOL IM (AIM) all in one place. Sort of like Trillian - but the best thing about it is that it is online - so your IM’s go everywhere with you. And you dont have to worry about updating software, system resources being chomped on startup etc.
As with all great Ajax apps - it has drag and drop and no page refreshes. It does a great job of creating a desktop environment within the browser.
A nifty component is Meebome - which allows you to include a web chat
window on your site/blog - so when you are online, you can chat to your
site’s visitors. See the sidebar on the right of this post —–>>>.
They have 500,000 users in under a year - pretty good going. Now to try to make some money I suppose. Has to come from advertising. Other streams will probably be some premium services, content sales, possibly a corporate/enterprise version (especially for the Meebome offering).
On a downside - I seem to get system overload (Firefox freezes) when meebo has been running for a while - not sure if its related to meebo, or the other 20 Extensions I have installed. Will have to work it out soon.
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