Inside Facebook (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Meebo, an instant messaging company that offers an IM aggregator site as well as a toolbar that runs on other sites, has been using Facebook in a few different ways to beef up its features. So we caught up with chief executive Seth Sternberg recently to hear how things are going. The company, notably, just announced [...]
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Meebo’s chat and sharing tools continue their spread around the web, with the company announcing the Hollywood Reporter as its latest partner. Over the next few months, THR publisher Nielsen Business Media will add the Meebo Bar to other sites too, such as MediaWeek and AdWeek. The Meebo Bar started out as a way for social sites like myYearbook to add instant messaging abilities, but it has...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Meebo, the company that enables real-time social interactions, today announced that The Hollywood Reporter, a Nielsen Business Media property, will integrate the Meebo Bar into The Hollywood Reporter’s destination website, www.thr.com. Seth Sternberg, founder and CEO of Meebo, Alex Boyce, Online Director with Nielsen Business Media & Entertainment Group,...
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
IM and content-sharing platform Meebo has signed an ad-sharing deal with Nielsen Business Media, that will place its Meebo Bar on sites like THR.com. The bar lets users comment on content, and share links and photos with friends without leaving a publisher’s site; ads show up on the bottom left corner of the bar, and Meebo splits the revenue with the publisher. The partnership goes live tonight...
Triple Pundit (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
I’m writing from FailCon today which is shaping up to be an excellent use of a Tuesday. I have a lot of opinions about conferences and two of the things I look for in a conference are that speakers are forced to prepare relevant, thoughtful content beforehand. And the dress is casual. FailCon meets both [...]
Sports On My Mind (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Live-chatting the Skins-Eagles..... now!
USA Shopping Online @ 2dayplaza.com (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Many have been saying there is no money to be made from instant messaging but Meebo may beg to differ as the company has been seeing massive growth in user numbers and in revenue lately. The site, which allows users to connect to a variety of IM services and also has tools for other sites to integrate chat functionality, has seen a huge bump in user numbers after the introduction of the Community IM...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Ever since Meebo launched its Community IM feature — which lets any site integrate a chat feature that's similar to Facebook Chat — the service has seen strong growth. But the bump the site has seen with each successive partnership over the last year pales in comparison to the growth it's been seeing in the last few months: between August and October, Meebo has jumped from around 50 million...
Brian.Carnell.Com (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Meebo Me is a plugin for WordPress that embeds your Meebo chat widget into the sidebar. I keep meaning to install this on my sites, but never seem to get around to it. This is a post from Brian.Carnell.Com.Meebo Me Plugin for WordPress Related posts:The Merge Tags Plugin for WordPress…Seriously'Admin Links WordPress PluginTwitter Tools WordPress Plugin This is a post from Brian.Carnell.Com ....
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Hard to believe it’s been four years since Sandy, Seth and Elaine founded Meebo. But in that time, the company has grown to a monthly reach of 90 million people, of whom one-third are in America. Today’s news is that California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s website has sprouted the Meebo Bar, which makes it easy to send stuff to people on social networks, email or IM. Look at...
Sports On My Mind (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Join me for a Meebo Live Chat tonight during the Carolina-Dallas game. Additionally, each Sunday, if possible, I will spark up the Meebo machine for an open thread during the day's games. ----------------------------------- On the SOMM Money Bomb tip.... I just wanted to express thanks to all those who have contributed to SOMM ...
iMessengr (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Meebo is one of the best multi-protocol web-based instant messaging client on the market. For various reasons, there are cases where access to Meebo is restricted. Meebo Repeater is an official application that configures the web settings allowing you to access Meebo whenever it is blocked. This open source software "bounces" your Web traffic from one computer to another, and finally to Meebo's...
Library Voice (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
A while back I wrote about how Meebo and Pidgin are like Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. In that blog post I described how to use a plugin for Pidgin that would allow you to connect to your Meebo widgets through the Pidgin IM client. Well, for some reason, this stopped working for me [...]
Pulse2 (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Hark! is a browser plug-in that focuses on sharing content online using a web-based toolbar. Hark! is in real-time by having an integrated chat-room and instant messaging system that allows simultaneously connected users to share content. The founders of Hark! acknowledged that there are plenty of link sharing services, but when it comes [...]
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
How do you advertise on a Web-based instant messaging service without interrupting conversations and annoying the hell out of users? Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg thinks he has the answer: "There is a moment of boredom while they are waiting for a response, that is when they click on ads." He's observed this based on how people interact with the ads which began appearing on Meebo.com last March...
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