Ajax-based IM, Meebo

Om Malik | Wednesday, September 14, 2005 | 3:02 PM PT | 155 comments

As Ajax spreads it wings, folks are using it to come up with cool new apps. Writely, was one. Latest – Meebo, a web-based IM client. Through Ajax, the folks at meebo were able to create a virtual application-like experience within a single web browsing window. meebo integrates a user’s accounts from AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, and ICQ into a single buddy list that is automatically populated upon signing into the meebo web site. Sort of like Trillian/Adium, but in a browser window. The interface is so simple and elegant. It is still alpha so be kind. It as a few issues, so be kinder. But this is slowly turning browser into more than just a browser. Like Writely, Meebo is a three-person start-up. Elaine Wherry – the Ajax guru; Sandy Jen – Server side programming; and Seth Sternberg – jack of everything else. Mark Jen has an indepth look at this app.

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  • [...] Wow! Today has been a pretty crazy day for us holed up in Sandy’s apartment. We definitely didn’t expect the volume of response to our launch! Early in the day Mark and Om blogged meebo. We got a lot of pickup from that and started to see a bunch of other folks covering meebo on feedster and technorati such as TechCrunch and Solution Watch. [...]

     
  • Abandonnez gaim et Trillian, voici Meebo

    Ca faisait longtemps que je cherchais une appli dans ce style, et a ma connaissance, il n’existait que msn Webmessenger, mais il ne me permet pas comme mon Gaim d’avoir tout mes IM dans la même appli. Il manque toutefois Jabber…

     
  • [...] Om Malik reported late yesterday about a three person startup company, Meebo, who has built an Ajax-enabled web frontend integrating IM accounts from AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, and ICQ. I’ve checked it out, and though there are some privacy concerns, it’s pretty damn cool. All the IM clients just float around inside a web browser. [...]

     
  • Meebo, the Ajax-based IM

    Mark Jen has the goods on the latest Web feature coming from three folks from Stanford. Tired of having those multiple buddy lists from different instant messenger services? Meebo integrates your accounts from AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, and I…

     
  • Meebo: Web Based Instant Messaging Client

    I saw that Om Malik mentioned a new web based (Ajax) instant messaging client called meebo. Pretty neat, if you need to login on some locked down machine or one that isn’t yours. But I have the same heartburn with…

     
  • Meebo, An Ajax-based Instant Messenger

    I just came across Meebo, which is a browser-based IM client built using Ajax. Meebo is sort of like Trillian, but inside the browser window. It integrates a user’s accounts from AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, and ICQ into a single buddy list th…

     
  • Meebo: A New IM Service in the Right Place at the Right Time

     
  • [...] A few weeks back I introduced you folks to Meebo, a browser-based IM aggregation client that leveraged technologies collectively known as AJAX. Now meet Gtalkr, a Flash-based implementation of Google Talk. I have been playing around with it for a few days, and as a Mac user, I can finally enjoy the GTalk IM Service. It is fairly simple product to use. Go to this website, use your Gmail ID and log in. Nothing to download, nothing to install. But ease of use is not the only thing. In many ways it is like GTalk plus. (I wish it looked prettier, but it works nicely [...]

     
  • [...] For a while, the word on the street has been that Meebo, barely 13 weeks old has been out raising some cash. But did they? Apparently yes! The amount of money they have raised is $3.5 million, at about $9 million pre-money valuation from Sequoia Capital, and Roelof Botha has joined the company’s board. The company has been growing pretty rapidly, about 250,000 logins and 7 million messages as of yesterday, and the Meebo Musketeers have built a good platform. [...]

     
  • Free qcp ringtones….

    Free verizon ringtones. Free ringtones. Ringtones free. Free cingular ringtones….

     
  • [...] web-based instant messaging, is celebrating its second anniversary today. The three-person company we first wrote about in September 2005 is growing up literally and figuratively. The company is expanding beyond its instant messaging [...]

     
  • [...] are the best way for IM services to differentiate from the new, more slick web-based IM aggregators such as Meebo, and still retain unique brand [...]

     
  • [...] I am not a big fan of Google Mail and prefer a desktop client – Apple Mail is pretty good. I use Meebo as my IM client and the only other desktop software I typically use everyday is the Skype [...]

     

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