Comments on: Meebo Widget Strategy Paying Off

By: The Widget Kings

The Widget Kings — Sat, 17 May 2008 02:22:27 +0000

[...] by News Corp., that brings the total reach of MySpace-owned widgets up to 46 percent. It seems like Meebo should be in there, with a reach of about 19 million, which would put it right after iGoogle. Who else is [...]

By: jon B

jon B — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:28:29 +0000

The Internet is an ad-supported world and that’s how Meebo is expected to make money. Partners are offered options of sharing ad revenue or supplying their own ads and taking any money from that. Interesting comments..

By: Meebo Turns Chat Rooms Into A Web Service

Meebo Turns Chat Rooms Into A Web Service — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:59:06 +0000

[...] embedded on sites or blogs manually by pasting in the appropriate code, which has already led to a proliferation of such widgets. There are more than 200,000 Meebo Rooms, attracting millions of visitors a month. (See our [...]

By: Meebo

Meebo — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:09:41 +0000

how to build a brand (and traffic) with widgets on other sites?

By: Yuli

Yuli — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:27:13 +0000

Well they could make money quite easily if they started implementing a widget ad service. If meebo implemented Clearspring’s advertising http://www.clearspring.com/ I am sure they would start seeing some profit.

By: Erick Schonfeld

Erick Schonfeld — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:44:16 +0000

Guys, they serve ads in the widgets, as we’ve noted in the past. Follow the links.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:27:10 +0000

Growing a company via widget development… I will give that a try once I got me some spare time… I do see it as a great way towards improving not only the customer experience but as Meebo has discovered, traffic increased use on their system.

Jon
http://buzvia.com - Share Influence

By: Brad Hunstable

Brad Hunstable — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:59:45 +0000

I can tell you first hand, meebo is a tremendous company with a great team. We at Ustream.TV are lucky enough to be located right down the street from them so we have worked with meebo on numerous occasions.

Seth is leading a great company and they will continue to excel.

Great job meebo!

Brad Hunstable
Founder, Ustream.TV

By: Yakov

Yakov — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:01:51 +0000

for sure, a widget strategy is a way to grow now when people tend to visit less sites than it used to be

By: shawn

shawn — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:26:05 +0000

I have yet to experience Meebo & using widgets, since I use my own software to syndicate feeds and php as well.

http://www.Drewryonline.net

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:07:07 +0000

Yeah, when I saw the headline “paying off” I thought is was going to say in money, not traffic. No surprise that widget strategies “generate traffic” and “interaction” simply becuase they are on more sites. But let us know when the strategy really pays off.

By: Kevin X

Kevin X — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:50:02 +0000

I’d like to take the time to refer to Guy Kawasaki, “If you make meaning, you’ll probably make money. But if you set out to make money, you will probably not make meaning, and you won’t make money.”

http://www.cantheworldhearme.c.....e-meaning/

By: Patrick Grote

Patrick Grote — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:45:34 +0000

Tri … Google did have a solid business model once they got going. They supplied search results for other companies such as Yahoo.

Mozilla has a solid business model based on search results through their Google relationship.

Waiting around for someone to buy you isn’t a revenue model. Yahoo, Google, Microsoft could easily make a combined IM site such as Meebo. The barrier of entry for them is very low.

By: matt

matt — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:43:19 +0000

@tri, you’re right…Facebook, show me the money!

By: Tri

Tri — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:35:04 +0000

Guys, calm down with the revenue. Who needs revenue or business model when you have VCs pumping millions into your bank account? Web 2.0 is all about the users base. Revenue comes much easier when you have millions of user’s trust. This is why Facebook is valuated at 15B. It has a country of loyal customers who come back to use the site everyday. The VCs that backed these sites are smart enough to monetize from the users base when the time is right.

Google didn’t have a solid business model when they started. Mozilla still doesn’t really have a clear business model. All they had was an exceptional product and a massive user base and look at them now.

By: sky

sky — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:00:23 +0000

I think FB should buy it.

By: sandeep

sandeep — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:57:56 +0000

meebo is a nice option

By: The Real Boyfriend

The Real Boyfriend — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:39:23 +0000

Yes Show me the Money

By: Planet Malaysia

Planet Malaysia — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:38:47 +0000

Probably they are waiting for potential buyer.

By: Patrick Grote

Patrick Grote — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:31:10 +0000

Seriously. I love their service, but how are they going to make money?

I guess it’s one of those services I use enough to pay for.

By: Sven

Sven — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:14:11 +0000

Who cares if they make money or not? If someone likes their infrastructure and traffic enough to buy them, they will be laughing all the way to the bank.

By: John McCrea

John McCrea — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:52:18 +0000

Congrats to the team at Meebo! Great progress.

By: Raskin

Raskin — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:49:19 +0000

Show who what money? Seriously people. Jerry McGuire?

By: Your Daddy

Your Daddy — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:18:27 +0000

Show me the money!

By: Planet Malaysia

Planet Malaysia — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:02:14 +0000

Just wonder how they can survive? I can’t see how they make money?