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meebo’s hits another milestone with over 20 million unique users per month

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meebo.pngmeebo announced a significant milestone in user adoption. In addition to reaching 6.5 million unique users monthly at meebo.com, the company has seen adoption and usage of meebo rooms widgets grow substantially from the May 2007 launch. In November alone, 16.5 million unique users visited meebo widgets distributed across the Web by partners and users. Combining users of both meebo.com and meebo widgets, the company now estimates its reach at more than 20 million people in November 2007.

Today, meebo also announced that it has tailored meebo rooms, Partner Edition, to function seamlessly inside Facebook applications. Social network application providers BuddyMedia, (fluff)Friends, RockYou, Slide, The Broth and WaterCooler, Inc. have begun implementing meebo rooms, Partner Edition, to connect people live with their friends directly inside highly-trafficked applications.

Beginning next year, meebo rooms, Partner Edition, will give developers a hassle-free revenue stream for integrating live interaction functionality into their communities and applications. meebo will run unobtrusive, user-friendly and engaging ads inside meebo rooms and will then share a portion of the revenue with partners.

Newly-released Partner Edition functionalities include:

• Brand customization and Flash skinning. Partner Edition gives brands full control of the look and feel of their meebo rooms to create a seamless user and design experience between your brand and meebo technology.

• Integration with Facebook’s existing registration system. Facebook Edition authenticates logged user sessions and lets users take their registered names and user photos into the room with them, without requiring a meebo account.

• Automated capacity spillover. Designed for highly-trafficked application and canvas pages, new rooms spawn automatically when capacity is reached.

• Advertising tracking. Partners can seamlessly embed and track advertising in a room’s media queue to monetize traffic inside meebo rooms.

• Traffic and data reporting. Facebook Edition offers enhanced traffic and data reporting capability to measure campaign effectiveness and results.

Originally posted on December 13, 2007 @ 10:21 am

meebo partners with VideoEgg to enhance monetization on meebo Platform

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meebo.pngmeebo has partnered with VideoEgg Inc. to give meebo Platform application developers the ability to monetize their applications. The partnership brings VideoEgg’s Eggnetwork Advertising Platform (EAP) to developers building synchronous and multiuser applications for the meebo Platform.

The launch of the meebo Platform is creating additional live interactions amongst meebo users and their IM buddies with the addition of rich applications that include webcam, voice calling, and Flash games. Now with VideoEgg, the meebo Platform gives third-party developers a hassle-free monetization of their applications. meebo and VideoEgg will run unobtrusive, user-friendly and engaging ads while applications run. meebo will share ad click through revenue with its third-party application developers. Alternatively, meebo offers third-party developers the ability to opt out of the revenue-sharing arrangement and run their own ads on their application.

Originally posted on December 7, 2007 @ 12:46 pm

Joost chooses meebo to power Channel Chat

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meebo.pngmeebo announced a partnership with Joost to power Channel Chat across Joost’s global TV distribution platform. This partnership will enable Joost to combine its rich, full-length video experience with meebo’s best-of-breed group chat solution, meebo rooms.

The partnership closely follows the buzz around the announcement of the launch of the meebo Platform, an iPhone-optimized edition of meebo, and the meebo Extension for Firefox – and therefore marks the company’s fourth significant innovation in less than three months. The release also coincides with an extended period of rapid usage growth for meebo.

Originally posted on November 6, 2007 @ 8:19 am

File transfer on meebo raises the bar for web-based IM

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meebo.jpgFile Transfer today comes to meebo as its users can now seamlessly transfer files to your IM buddies, on meebo or off meebo, regardless of which IM network they’re on, no software or download required.

At its core, meebo’s File Transfer utilizes the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), core features of Amazon Web Services. Together, they provide an affordable, scalable and fault-tolerant solution to file storage and retrieval in a web environment.

“We’re pleased to offer meebo the infrastructure solutions they need to expand their offerings for their customers,” said Steve Rabuchin, Director of Developer Relations for Amazon Web Services. “meebo has a record of innovating for its customers – our suite of web services helps them stay singularly focused on that goal.”

Originally posted on September 11, 2007 @ 8:31 am

Add Your BBM Code to Your Facebook Profile

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So you got a new BlackBerry handheld device and is now starting to explore the great BlackBerry Messenger (BBM). The problem is you don’t know of any friends who are as cool as you who happen to have a BlackBerry phone as well. So that renders your cool BB Pin and BBM useless. Here’s a good news. Why not start sharing your PIN to others? Put it in your Facebook profile. Sounds good right?

A new BlackBerry Facebook app just became available, allowing you to put your BBM QR Code to your Facebook profile so that other BBM users who happen to be in your Facebook network can scan it and add you to their BBM buddy list.

It’s a pretty clever idea. Something that I would definitely want to try since I really haven’t maximized the use of my BBM since I got my BlackBerry phone.

To try this one out, just head over to the bb_barcodegenerator app on Facebook. You will be asked for your BlackBerry PIN, choose a layout for your BB QR Code, then have the app generate it for you. From there you can opt to display the QR Code on your Facebook profile, either in the sidebar or overlaid onto your profile picture. Then wait till your friends and others within who can view your profile scan it and add you to their BBM list. Then you can start chatting away.

The barcode generator works with BBM running on version 5.0. So if your phone’s BBM is still on an earlier version, now may be the right time to update.

Via IntoMobile

Originally posted on March 19, 2010 @ 5:39 pm