Meebo is reporting that about 7,500 Meebome instant messaging widgets were created within twelve hours of being launched yesterday. An unrelenting barrage of people hit our site yesterday and chatted with us via our Meebome button. Peoples’ overwhelming response was one word: “Cool!”
So cool, perhaps, that “Meebome” looked to eBay more like an “amoeba,” the fast-growing penetrative parasite that takes over large bodies. Thus the Meebome on eBay has been taken down.
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Roundup: Last Google Jet hearing, VC China wars, Capton, Vysr, Wablet, more
Google co-founders have settled with the guy who spilled beans on the secretive Google Jet — A final hearing is scheduled for Aug. 29. Details here in the Mercury News story today. Draper Fisher Jurvetson reappears in China — After a rocky period in…