Update 9/29/05: Wired published an excellent article on Meetro today.
Company: What is it?
Meetro is an instant messaging service that works both as a stand alone client and also integrates with other IM services (AOL and ICQ for now, others to come later). Meetro determines where you are phyically located automatically (or you can override by telling it manually) and shows you other meetro users near you. It’s a cool way to see when your friends are nearby, and to meet random people who are physically close to you.
Meetro currently only works on the Windows platform, with Mac and other clients coming in Q4. The download is small – 3.5 mb, and registration was very simple.
Overall, the service works very well. I chatted with two of the founders (Wendell and Paul) and also asked a couple of random people near me what they thought of it – everyone was very enthusiastic and loved the service.
This is an application that will stay on my desktop. It will become increasingly useful as they integrate additional IM platforms, as I run five on my desktop currently (MSN, Yahoo, AOL, Skype, Gizmo).
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how can i invest in your company.
Just tried Meetro – this company really sucks. I just found out that they have emailed everyone in my hotmail account saying that I had invited them to join Meetro – i would never ever do this.
I imagine this little evil viral effort is explained in the small print of their terms and conditions. This is shows really poor taste and is a malicious attempt to get viral. All join my viral campaign “EVIL MEETRO SUCKS CAMPAIGN!!!!
I was asked to write code for Meetro, but without any clear-cut plans or compensations, its a waste of time.
And all that proximity thing is crap, never really took off. Except for the people who created it and boasting they invented the internet.
I guess they have all the legal crap too. Cant afford to pay rent, but can pay the lawer.
Well, Im writing this because I have nothing else to do. Maybe Ill make some tea to keep me occupied.
Have Fun !
check out -
http://www.radiusim.com/
Just noticed this on my mac console-
Meetro: Mac OS X MacMeetro version: 0.54 ‘H0m05exua1 a55-1ickers’ (build date:2006-07-17 23:08:00 -0800)
Very tasteful MEETRO!
not.
google will hijack this concept