Meebo socializes The Hollywood Reporter
Meebo’s chat and sharing tools continue to spread around the web, with the company announcing the Hollywood Reporter as its latest partner. Over the next few months, THR publisher Nielsen Business Media will add the Meebo Bar to other sites too, such as MediaWeek and AdWeek.
The Meebo Bar started out as a way for social sites like myYearbook to add instant messaging abilities, but it has spread to news publications like TechCrunch, and even to… Continue Reading
Schwarzenegger adds Meebo to gubernatorial website
Hard to believe it’s been four years since Sandy, Seth and Elaine founded instant-messaging site Meebo. I don’t know them, but I read about them. Since then, the company has grown to a monthly reach of 90 million people, of whom one-third are in America. Today’s news is that California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s website has sprouted the Meebo Bar, which makes it easy to share parts of the site with people on social networks, email… Continue Reading
Roundup: New Sony e-reader, more Web 2.0 widgets, Chinese Social Networks 101
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Sony launches a $400 electronic book, newspaper and magazine reader — The aluminum-bodied Reader Daily Edition, priced at $399, has a 7″ touchscreen and connects to Sony’s e-bookstore through AT&T’s 3G network, or through a local Wi-Fi router. There’ll be no monthly charges for the wireless service. The display can be viewed either vertically or horizontally. Its black-and-white display has 16 levels of grayscale color designed to look more like paper than… Continue Reading
Meebo toolbar gets new sharing features
Instant message service Meebo is rolling out new features for the toolbar it runs on partner sites, including a simple way to share links with the people you’re IMing to. As other companies, like Facebook and Twitter, help make real-time information sharing a mainstream activity, this is Meebo’s way of getting in on the action.
You can see the new features in action on mom site CafeMom, which is launching with Meebo today. Open the lower… Continue Reading
With a working revenue stream, Meebo expands on the web
Meebo has been seeing some new users through its service for integrating instant messaging into other web sites, and it could start to make more money as a result. Seven or so partner web sites generated 4.5 million unique visitors in March, it says, but that number jumped to 10.3 million last month when the company integrated the service, called CommunityIM, on social network MyYearbook and other sites.
Mountain View, Calif.-based Meebo first got traction as… Continue Reading
Meebo: Our chat service is working great for other sites
Do web users want instant messaging features tightly integrated into their favorite web sites? New data from instant message service Meebo suggests they do. The company introduced a white-label service last year so other sites could offer IM to users in the form of a toolbar at the bottom of their web pages. It includes ways to chat with existing friends on those sites as well as friends on Meebo’s home chat-aggregator site, or on… Continue Reading
Meebo’s chat advertising service expands to the web
Social networks like myYearbook and movie fan network Flixster already integrate Meebo’s white-label instant message service, Community IM , so their users can chat across instant message services without having to leave their sites. Those users will be getting small banner and icon ads within the chat toolbar on the Community IM interface later this month. Click on the icon and you get a 900 x 400 ad, like the one for Havaianas, below.
It’s not… Continue Reading
Can Push Notification force AT&T to rethink SMS fees?
Let me be clear right off the bat: Contrary to what some of you may believe, I do not hate text messaging. What I hate are the ridiculous fees mobile carriers push on us when we use it. These costs are so absurd that a number of times I’ve written about the need for a viable alternative to force carriers to bring the fees down. Now, it looks like we may have one of the… Continue Reading
Meebo launches Facebook chat, officially and securely this time
Instant message service aggregator Meebo is launching the first officially sanctioned version of Facebook’s IM service, Chat, to work on another web site. Basically, it lets you IM with friends who are logged into Chat on Facebook and chat with other friends on AIM, Gtalk, Yahoo Mail and other IM services all through a single interface.
It’s an official implementation of Connect, Facebook’s service for letting third parties access Facebook data from other sites. Previously, Meebo… Continue Reading
AOL using AIM chat to boost Bebo, challenge Meebo
AOL is working on a new initiative to make its instant message service, AIM, a central social feature to any web site, well-placed sources tell me. Starting next year, a user on a social network might use AIM to create an IM chat list from their friends list on their favorite social network. They could then IM each other without having to use a separate chat application.
Oh wait, what does that remind me of? Ah… Continue Reading
Meebo: IM friends with your MySpace, Facebook friends
Ever wanted to instant-message with all of your friends, across social networks? Starting today, you can chat with your friends on MySpace and Facebook, through online IM aggregator Meebo. The way it works is that you sign in to Meebo’s home site using your identity on either social network. Meebo already integrates with AOL’s AIM, Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk and Microsoft Live Messenger, so now you can chat with all of these friends together with… Continue Reading
Meebo partners with Hearst Magazines Digital Media, teen girls rejoice and chat
Meebo, the company that powers social interaction through instant messaging and group chat on its own and partner sites, has partnered with Hearst Magazines Digital Media, a unit of Hearst Magazines. Seventeen.com and Popularmechanics.com are two of the digital media properties that are integrating Meebo’s chat and instant messaging services to drive users to the sites and create active, passionate communities.
The key reason Hearst entered the deal is to increase engagement on its sites, according… Continue Reading
Roundup: Yahoo developer platform launches, Wal-Mart sells G1, and more
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So many games, so little time — The typical household video game collection boasts 48 titles, but 11 percent of gamers say they own unopened games. That’s according to a new survey by analyst firm the NPD Group.
Desktop software still relevant, Microsoft chief executive Ballmer maintains — His email to customers, here.
Yahoo launches developer platform — See our preview from last week.
Discounted G1 phones go on sale at Wal-Mart today — The Android-powered phone is available… Continue Reading
Meebo announces more partners for its new white-label IM service
Instant message aggregator Meebo is now providing its technology to other sites. Called CommunityIM, the unlaunched service has been racking up an increasingly long list of large and small new partners. Today, the Mountain View, Calif. company is announcing 11 new additions, including IBeatYou, OrangeShark, PerfSpot, UGAME.net, Yaari, Zinch, Zorpia, Bleacher Report, Dhingana, Fanpop and GlobalGrind.
CommunityIM is basically white-label IM. It lets users of a given site chat with friends on that site. It also… Continue Reading
Meebo shows off new interface, plans for its forthcoming community chat service
Meebo, a startup that lets you chat online with friends across rival instant message services, will next month launch a service called Community IM, a white-label platform where other sites can offer their own web-based IM services.
It’s the latest bid by the Mountain View Calif.-based company to expand beyond the 35 million users already on its home site and on its group-chat embeddable widgets, and so gain more advertising dollars.
Facebook spent around a year working… Continue Reading
Meebo launches instant message platform so other web sites can build branded chat services
Meebo is turning its instant message aggregator service into a “platform” that other web companies can use to build instant message features into their own sites. The new platform, officially called Meebo Community Instant Messaging, is a way for the company to take advantage of a trend in social web sites — sites turning their user bases into IM chat lists.
Myspace and Facebook, the two largest social networks in the world, have already launched their… Continue Reading
Roundup: Apple backdating probe dropped, AMD takes big write-off, Webroot founder missing
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Apple criminal backdating probes dropped: It’s a happy day for Apple, and not just because of the iPhone 3G launch. The criminal backdating probe of Steve Jobs and other Apple executives has been dropped, according to the San Jose Mercury News. Attorneys involved in defending various participants said the Justice Department concluded no charges should be brought against Jobs or anyone else invovled in the backdating. The Securities and Exchange Commission, however, is still pressing… Continue Reading
Instant message service Meebo sees traffic from its embedded chat rooms on Facebook
Meebo, the company that lets you chat to people across instant message services on its site, and across IM services in chat rooms you can embed on the web, also lets third-party developers build applications for its site and use its chat rooms within other sites. What this means is that Meebo users are using Meebo chat rooms within Facebook, to let Facebook users more easily message with each other.
Today, Mountain View, Calif.-based Meebo… Continue Reading
Meebo introduces interactive ads, another step towards social web sites making money
We were hard on instant message startup Meebo in March when it was raising a $25 million round at a $200 million valuation. While it has gained tens of millions of users in a couple of years, it has yet to generate significant revenue.
Today, in one of the Mountain View, Calif. company’s most explicit efforts yet to make money, it is introducing interactive ads.
Meebo’s ads will appear at the bottom of its chat windows (screenshot… Continue Reading
Thanks for coming to the VentureBeat party
VentureBeat threw a party last night to celebrate the launch our new digital media blog. (In truth, the blog is still a glorified tab on our main site, but we’re headed soon to a more separate offering.)
Held at the Ambassador club in San Francisco, hundreds of movers and shakers in digital media arena showed up — entrepreneurs, PR folks, even Warriors basketball star Baron Davis (below), an investor in IBeatYou (which also had an announcement… Continue Reading