It’s Official: Meebo Raises $25 Million From Jafco, Time Warner and KTB

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1. John Ham
   

   April 30th, 2008 at 9:03 pm

   Great job guys! Meebo is an amazing service and I’m excited for their future. Looking forward to more great things from the Meebo team.

2. Victor
   

   April 30th, 2008 at 10:06 pm

   And…. the bubble is back!

3. no gphone
   

   April 30th, 2008 at 11:09 pm

   bubble is back for sure

   oh and interesting that time warner (aol) is investing in this

4. Daniel
   

   April 30th, 2008 at 11:11 pm

   I am speechless. Yes, the previous post is absolutely correct. The bubble is back. WTF. Web effing IM. Hey Time Warner, I have some other crap to sell you too. Send me an e-mail.

5. Lelia Katherine Thomas
   

   April 30th, 2008 at 11:25 pm

   I’m not going to delve into whether “the bubble is back” or not, because I think there are far too many factors involved for one to know for sure quite often; however, I will say that Meebo is a fantastic service and deserves any funding it receives, no matter what company it’s coming from.

   Instant messaging is one area that people haven’t really grown into the idea of doing through a web application at this point, but they’re on to something, and you can tell that if you’ve ever used Meebo. It’s very intuitive and has pop-out functions for chat windows, so you don’t feel like you’re using a web application.

   This being said, as much as I think the service is very good at what it does, I still use, and will continue to use, Gtalk. I do, however, use Meebo when I’m on a computer that doesn’t have Gtalk. I’m not one to believe everything’s moving online so fast, not with the access issues that still exist throughout the world.

   As a side note, it’s strange to me that people would say the bubble is back when an online IM application gets funding, but not when an online document manager or excel-like application gets funding. It seems a bit inconsistent, whether there is another bubble or not. Just a thought.

6. pankaj
   

   May 1st, 2008 at 12:23 am

   fgfgfggggg

7. Moja
   

   May 1st, 2008 at 5:18 am

   Meebo is a great application; however, given similar if not better interfaces:
   http://webmessenger.yahoo.com/, I dont see the business. However, maybe they have another application in the works.

8. keith
   

   May 1st, 2008 at 7:07 am

   AOL + Meebo Rooms..when does Userplane disappear?

9. Miles Long
   

   May 1st, 2008 at 9:53 am

   I don’t get it. Why is Meebo worth that much? The article doesn’t explain much. Seems to be a lot of instant messaging programs out there. Is being web-based really that valuable? Feels frothy to me.

   ML

10. Jim M
    

    May 1st, 2008 at 10:12 am

    Is it possible for the big guys to just introduce more interoperability if Meebo becomes more competitive. I agree with the above that webmessenger from yahoo is pretty sweet. and then again, i can use yahoo messenger on my phone so maybe i’ll bypass the web app altogether. That said, meebo continues to impress and impress…best of luck. use that runway and take it big.

11. Bob
    

    May 1st, 2008 at 10:44 am

    … And what is the exit strategy now?

12. Josh
    

    May 1st, 2008 at 11:30 am

    Meebo will become even more important when people use web IM on their phone browser, such as the iPhone or Skyfire.

13. Fitness Is Happiness
    

    May 1st, 2008 at 12:39 pm

    They are in the same category as my company fitnessanywhere Inc, voted among the top 20 best super small company to work for in bay area (Best of bay), go Meebo!