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November 18, 2006 in IM, Web by Stephen
I’ve been a bog fan of Meebo, and I’ve blogged about it before. It allows you to connect to multiple instant messaging systems through a web browser. Nothing to install! This map shows where people are using Meebo in the last 15 minutes. It updates every 15 minutes, so you can come back and check later.
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November 12, 2006 in IM, Web by Stephen
I’ve been a big fan of Meebo for quite some time. It allows you to access several Instant Messaging services through a web browser. The New York Times has a great article about Internet start-ups, and Meebo is prominently mentioned. 
When Seth J. Sternberg and two colleagues started Meebo, a Web-based instant-messaging service, they didn’t go looking for venture capitalists. Using their credit cards, they financed the company themselves to the tune of $2,000 apiece. It was enough to cover their biggest expense — leasing a few computer servers at $120 a month each.
Within a month of its introduction in September 2005, Meebo was getting as many as 50,000 log-ins a day, and it needed more servers. It decided to take a modest $100,000 from three angel investors, wealthy individuals who typically contribute small amounts but do not get involved in management decisions.
Eventually, Meebo did raise money from venture investors — about $3.5 million from Sequoia Capital. But that was after the company was well on its way to showing that its service was a hit; Meebo had about 200,000 daily log-ins.
by Stephen
February 7, 2006 in Google, IM by Stephen
More good stuff from Google.
Online search engine leader Google Inc. is wedding its instant messaging and e-mail services in the same Web browser, hoping the convenience will lure users from the larger communications networks operated by its chief rivals.
The new chat feature to be unveiled Tuesday will provide users of Google’s Gmail service with a list of contacts drawn from past e-mail exchanges and then signal who’s available for online conversations.
Google hopes to make it even simpler to connect with an online contact by allowing users to initiate an electronic conversation within the same Web browser showing an e-mailbox, bypassing the need to switch to a separate instant messaging application.
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November 28, 2005 in IM, Web by Stephen
If you aren’t using it, you need to start!
When the three-person San Jose company Meebo launched in September, venture capitalists smothered it with requests to make an investment.
The company was hot — or at least venture capitalists thought so. Its technology lets people access their instant messaging programs from America Online, Yahoo, Microsoft and Google from the Meebo Web site without having to download each service’s software to their computers. Thousands of people were flocking to use it.
Meebo had become a “Web 2.0” company — a buzz-filled, admittedly vague moniker that many in Silicon Valley are using to describe companies that embody a second era of Web innovation — the first era being during the 1990s.
by Stephen
November 26, 2005 in IM, Tech, Web by Stephen
I know I’ve posted about this on one of my previous blogs, but it deserves a repeat. Meebo is a site where you can chat using Yahoo Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, GTalk, ICQ, or MSN.
You don’t have to install anything!! Schools with computer labs should recommend this so that the students won’t keep trying to install these programs.
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November 14, 2005 in Google, IM, Music by Stephen
This is amazing!
For all you Google Talk users who have enjoyed the high quality sound and the elegant simplicity of its instant messaging, things have just gotten a lot better! Introducing Mercora IM Radio for Google Talk – Now, Google Talk users can enjoy an immersive music listening experience from friends and people all over the world.
Mercora IM radio for Google Talk is in beta and requires you to have a Google Talk username and password.
If you need a Google Account, jsut shoot me an E-mail at sbrahn@gmail.com
