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Meebo
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| Meebo | |
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| OS: | Cross-platform (web-based application) |
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| Use: | Instant messaging |
| Website: | meebo.com |
Meebo is an in-browser instant messaging program, like AIM Express, which supports multiple IM services, including Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, AIM, ICQ, and Jabber. Meebo makes instant messaging services more accessible to users who are unable or unwilling to download the appropriate software.
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Although still in its early stages, the goal of the project is to combine the features of Trillian or Gaim with the availability of AIM Express. Meebo includes the ability to sign on invisibly and to connect to multiple services[1].
Meebo added a feature allowing the creation of Meebo user accounts on February 16, 2006, which allows users to use a single login for multiple services. As of May 4, 2006, Meebo now has the ability to store chat logs with an associated Meebo user account. Users with Meebo login names also have the ability to rename contacts.
As of March 19, 2006, Meebo incorporated send and receive notification sounds and the ability to send messages to contacts that are not on your contact list.
On August 2, 2006, Meebo launched the "meebo me" widget, which allows users to embed a version of Meebo on their personal website. Additionally, on October 11, 2006, they announced a partnership with Amie Street to include the "meebo me" widget on each Amie Street user page.[2][3]
Some company and school firewalls prevent employees and students from using Meebo. In response to this, on May 19, 2006, Meebo released Meebo repeater, a tool which allows users to set up their own proxies for accessing the Meebo service on a Windows PC. As a result many schools and companies have blocked access to that page; however most businesses and schools do not block traffic on port 443 (HTTPS), which uses SSL/TSL cryptographic protocol, as a result it is still possible to connect to the service.[4]
Meebo allows some people who are behind firewalled networks (networks that block the various instant messaging protocols but have not blocked the meebo.com domain name) to connect to instant messaging services due to the fact that the user only connects to port 443 (HTTPS) and the Meebo service itself then connects to the various instant messaging protocols.[5]
Meebo is also currently compatible with Google Talk, a service of Google Mail, also known as Gmail.
- Offline messaging, while supported in ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, and AOL Instant Messenger only works on Meebo whilst the conversation is still active. If the offline recipient hasn't spoken for a short period of time, the online sender will not be able to communicate with the other person.
- QQ Protocol
- Opera support
- Aim Chat Exchanges (can only join exchange 4)
In June 2006, Meebo was listed 65 of PCWorld’s 100 Best Products of the Year.[6]
In August 2006, Meebo was listed as one of Time's Top 50 Coolest Websites for 2006.[7][8]
Meebo was founded in 2005 by Sandy Jen, Seth Sternberg, and Elaine Wherry. It received Series A funding by Sequoia Capital (led by Roelof Botha) and Series B funding from Draper Fisher Jurvetson (led by Tim Draper).[9] On November 3, 2006, Meebo XX was released.
- ^ About Meebo. Retrieved on 2006-12-21.
- ^ http://blog.meebo.com/?p=209
- ^ http://amiestreet.com/blog/post/get-social-with-meebo
- ^ https://www34.meebo.com/index-en.html Meebo via HTTPS
- ^ Meebo's Impressive Growth (2005-12-12). Retrieved on 2007-01-26.
- ^ Stafford, Alan (2006-05-31). The 100 Best Products of the Year. PCWorld.com. Retrieved on 2006-12-28.
- ^ Time lists 50 'coolest websites'. BBC News (2006-08-15). Retrieved on 2006-12-28.
- ^ Buechner, Maryanne Murray (August 2006). 50 Coolest Websites. Time.com. Retrieved on 2006-12-28.
- ^ Meebo raises Series B financing. Retrieved on 2007-01-18.