Meebo’s Community IM, which effectively offers websites a Facebook Chat-like messaging platform “in a box”, looks like it’s finally ready for the masses. The product was first unveiled last July, and has announced partnerships with over a dozen sites including Sugar Publishing, AddictingGames, and myYearbook. But until now it has been rolled out slowly, and is currently live on only three sites: Flixster, Wadja, and Zorpia. While some of the wait can be attributed to the partner sites themselves, Meebo has also been taking its time to ensure that its service could handle the traffic load.
Now it sounds like Meebo is ready to swing into full gear. Today the product went live on Piczo, a social site with a large following among teenagers. And beginning next month, the company will roll out on 5-6 more partner sites and plans to continue that pace for the following months (Meebo won’t comment on which sites will be launching, but we can expect the largest ones to drag their feet the longest).
But even with the limited rollout, the three partner sites that had deployed Community IM before today have seen impressive results: Meebo reported 2.5 million unique users on Community IM in December, and expects to beat that figure in January. That number still pales in comparison to the 45 million users seen across Meebo’s entire network, but if the site sees similar turnout from each of its new partners it could double or triple within the month. In light of the platform’s success, Meebo is also planning to roll out advertising sooner than expected (Community IM is currently ad-free).
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wow cool, I can’t wait to try it on our sites.. I bet it will be hard to convince them to let us try it on small sites before they are fully open though
A much more interesting article would have been
Meebo Finally Develops a Business Model
All of these services are nice, but the job of a company is to make profits, not just spend shareholders’ money. There are plenty of worthwhile charities that focus on that.
How in the world is advertising on a chat which people will ignore even more than ads on social netowkrs ever going to even pay for their server and bandwidth costs, not to mention turn a profit?
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Where can we sign up for community IM on our own sites? Will it work with Drupal?
Meebo is doing big things. They got a great interface, they support every IM client there is and now they community tools such as this. Looking forward to bigger things soon!
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IM? Snooze, how passé
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Meebo should collaborate with Ning…
Interesting
its amazing how these guys have not yet partnered with ning.. its a no brainier!
How many IM widgets do we need?
I love Meebo and have been using it for quite a while. Haven’t seen much things get updated on their web application though. I guess this is the reason why
We have been beta testing self-serve version of WebCommunity IM for a few months now and getting ready for a few public launches later part of February. Go to http://mangospr...mkt/communityim to signup.
You can see a live implementation at: http://purpletr....com/partytrail
Wow that looks and works really nice. It’d be perfect for my gaming blog. The chatroom I have currently embedded in a page isn’t used much.
PS: I did find it a bit distracting that the tips menu automatically pops up. Is it possible to have your mangospring footer be minimized at startup? I also wouldn’t want to see a new user pop up every few seconds if I had that on the blog during busy times, so I’d want that turned off as well.
I love Meebo. It’s my only IM “client”. I use it at home, at work, basically anywhere one can access the web. What’s amazing about Meebo is that one doesn’t have to install anything on his PC and it looks clean compared to competitors like eBuddy. And I wouldn’t mind seeing a few more ads on the Meebo desktop if it meant they will continue to provide such an excellent service.
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When will Meebo open up their services for mom and pop web sites? How are they going to make money from all this?
Good question, can any site implement or are there traffic minimums?
meebo is good but often is discinected and is not useful for me
Great job Meebo! I bet Meebo has some really good revenue sharing models with these sites for increased traffic and chat-keywords based ads. I think they’ll find a good way to pay the IM networks for their traffic.
Would be great if Facebook pursued this same white label IM solution to get a true co-browsing experience using my social graph.
Great post!
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