The promise of the concept is that users would chat on a site instead of leaving it to use another chat application. The Meebo rollout on teen social network myYearbook something the two companies have been playing up since announcing their partnership last year should boost those numbers, as myYearbook has around 11 million total users.
But how does one make any money on this? Meebo announced a plan last month to roll out interactive ads that are integrated into the chat toolbar , a follow-up to similar ads that it says have been working well on its own site.
What about competitors? Referred to by many as the coolest way to communicate online since e-mail Read more You can manually log into your preferred network each time, or you can create a Meebo account, store your IM information in it, and just log into Meebo, which will automatically connect you to your networks.
The big advantage of Meebo is that you don't need to install special software to use it and you can IM from any computer. The major disadvantage is that their "alert" system is less obtrusive, so you might miss when someone sends you a new message. Also, Meebo is not as customizable as dedicated IM software. How does Meebo make it work? First, the user signs in at the Meebo Web site, and his computer connects with a Meebo server. When the user starts an IM session, Meebo uses a modified and optimized version of GAIM , an open-source client, to create a network connection with the user's IM network.
The connection of user computer, Meebo server and IM network takes place almost instantaneously [source: Meebo blog ]. While most Meebo users are 25 years old or younger, they also include others, such as U.
Meebo users only account for 30 percent of the total, so Meebo is available in plus languages and dialects even including Klingon and Pig Latin [source: CenterNetworks ]. No relation to an amoeba, actually. According to Meebo co-founder Sandy Jen, the company's three founders brainstormed over lunch one day. They were looking for a two-syllable name without prior associations that would be easy to remember and spell. Back at the office, they ran each of the 50 possibilities through a browser and eliminated all but a handful because they already were taken.
Meebo emerged as the winner [source: Meebo blog ]. Getting started with Meebo is easy, beginning with the account set-up and Meebo sign in. Once that's accomplished, you're ready to IM or visit one of the Meebo rooms. Go to Meebo and sign on. You can check "Sign in as invisible" to be online but appear offline to your buddies. The Preferences window lets you choose whether a sound plays when you send or receive an IM.
You also can select a background for your screen and IM window from colors, or celebrity, rock group or fashion photos. And you can indicate whether you want emoticons faces that show emotions in your messages. Your buddy list to the far right shows the friends you can IM from the networks you've added. Here's what each of the icons above the list does:. Now that you know the basics, let's find out more about features like Meebo rooms, chat logs and file sharing. Not everyone is fond of Meebo.
About 35 percent of employees use IM at work, according to a survey by the American Management Association and the ePolicy Institute, and 50 percent of them download free IM tools off the Web.
If access is blocked, workers and students may still be able to use Meebo to IM with their friends. Meebo rooms and other features give you more options than simply IMing your friends. You can visit one of the existing Meebo chat rooms or set up one of your own. With other Meebo features, you can keep saved conversations, share files or block buddies. You also can find answers to questions at Meebo help [source: Meebo blog ]. These chat rooms were added in May to provide group chat, as well as basic IM.
You can participate as a Meebo member, or as a guest -- and you can share video, images, music or links to Web sites with other participants. You'll find a list of currently available rooms at the bottom of your Meebo page, once you've logged on.
Or you can click on the Rooms icon at the top of the Meebo home page. Discussion threads can be closed at any time at our discretion. Meebo: We're making bank Real-time conversation aggregator has ad model that works, traffic to back it up. Rafe Needleman. June 9, p. Meebo adds chat and sharing functions outlined in orange to sites like CafeMom. And with traffic to Meebo growing on both on the main site and partner sites, revenue is climbing.
I'm taking this on faith, mind you, since publicly-available reports differ on Meebo's traffic, but it's highly plausible.
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