Meebo has disclosed that 11 more sites have committed themselves to integrating Community IM, its forthcoming out-of-the-box service that adds Facebook Chat-like instant messaging capabilities to the bottom of any website.
The newest enlistements include Bleacher Report, Dhingana, Fanpop, GlobalGrind, IBeatYou, OrangeShark, PerfSpot, UGAME.net, Yaari, Zinch, and Zorpia. These join a set of previously announced partners that includes DanceJam, Flixster, myYearbook, Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids and Family Group’s AddictingGames, Piczo, SparkArt, Sugar Publishing and Tagged. That’s a grand total of 19 companies that believe instant messaging within the browser will make their sites stickier.
Meebo is touting these partners as collectively providing the service with over 70 million new users. Obviously, that’s stretching the truth a bit. None of the integrations has launched yet (the first will be Flixster, probably within the next few weeks) and even when all of them do launch, only a small fraction of their visitors can be expected to use Community IM.
Check a demo of the product below, at least as it stood in September.
Meebo Community IM on Flickr from Meebo on Vimeo.
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good for Meebo. Not easy to monetize, but definitely doing a good BD job.
meebo has the im market on lock.
‘IM Market’
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must be competition
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IM market!!?? haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
how long have you worked for meebo?
Great tech and development from Meebo. But $37Mn???? These VCs are like women, I’ll never understand them.
Check out http://www.zopim.com - Similar service from a startup, without the crazy funding.
When Meebo arose, it was the best IM online that knew. But now they have been less atractive.
I hope so with this new acquisitions they become more strong. And better then they are.
i like meebo
We tried this with Meebo more than a year ago, but gave up after we realized it had many limitations, with respect to the basic needs of a website.
(Eg. Could not create groups specific to our website needs).
Will take a look again, if they have made any significant progress in the last year.
Hey, just check out toksta - a free white label IM (text, audio and video) for your community at http://www.toksta.com.
- Hosting included
- Revenue share OR AdView share
- Keep control over the advertising
- Copy & Paste implementation (< 15 min.)
- Deep integration (friends, ignores, profile pics etc.)
- Design customization
- 100% free
http://www.toksta.com
Goodbye Meebo? http://news.cnet.com/8301-1793.....020-2.html
Is China’s QQ the only one that has successfully monetized IM?
This looks interesting, I may see if we can utilize this in our site.
umm lol all my infos fake rofl