The Meebo bar, the noted product from the social media publishing company founded in 2005, will be discontinued on Thursday as the team focuses its full attention on Google+ products. Meebo was acquired by Google in June 2012.…
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Google Video, iGoogle and other products closing for good
As part of its continued pursuit of "focus" Google is shutting down five more products. That includes Google Video, iGoogle, Google Mini, Google Talk Chatback and its Symbian Search App, the company announced in a blog post Tuesday afternoon.…
Read MoreSkype Launches In-App Advertising, Limited To Windows For Now
As Skype gears up to list on the Nasdaq, the free Internet voice and video calling company is rolling out more services to generate revenue.……
Read MoreMeebo Brings the “Check-In” to the Web
You can "check in" to locations in the real world, and now Meebo is bringing the same idea to the web. The company is launching a new version of its website toolbar that allows users to check into different sites and follow other users.…
Read MoreMeebo Rallies Open Posse to Battle Facebook
A new open platform called XAuth is being released Monday by Meebo, with the support of Google, Microsoft, MySpace, Yahoo, JanRain, Disqus, and Gigya. XAuth detects whether or not a user is logged into web services elsewhere so a publisher can prominently display those preferred sites.…
Read MoreNimbuzz: Voice, Social Networking and Instant Messaging in One
There are many apps available that try to bring together various communication protocols. I’m always interested in programs that manage multiple services,…
Read MoreMeebo’s Ad, Content-Sharing Bar To Run On Nielsen Business Sites
IM and content-sharing platform Meebo has signed an ad-sharing deal with Nielsen Business Media, that will place its Meebo Bar on sites like……
Read MoreVoxOx: Voice, Video, Texting and Instant Messaging In One Package
I spend a lot of time each day communicating with colleagues and clients, by phone, email, on social networks, and via the…
Read MoreMeebo, IMVU Try Enticing Advertisers With New Partnerships
Social media ad forecasts mostly focus on networks like Facebook and MySpace, but brands are also running campaigns on IM-based services lik……
Read MoreVid-Biz: Magnify.net, AT&T, Jathia
Magnify.net Raises $750K; Innovation Ventures led this Series A1 round for the video publishing company. (Silicon Alley Insider) AT&T’s Viral Series Not…
Read MoreMeebo's Jen: How to Find Hard-to-Find Talent
At GigaOM’s recent Structure 08 event, Meebo co-founder and engineering chief, Sandy Jen, joined a panel to talk about scaling your computing…
Read MoreWhat Makes Gaming Social?
While it may temping to lump every game that has chat or a shared leaderboard under the social gaming umbrella, to do so muddies the water of a category that just may be the natural progression from social networking. It's time to define what we mean by social gaming, so that we can better focus on the actual value we are creating for the players themselves -- and avoid the trap of slapping a sparkly new phrase on any gaming startup that wanders onto the scene.…
Read MoreGeek Out: How Facebook Scales Chat
Neither Om nor I are shy about talking infrastructure, but the High Scalability blog has gone totally geek and parsed the details…
Read MoreTime Warner and Others Invest $25 Million in Meebo; Korea, Japan Expansion Plans
As we reported first earlier today, social IM firm Meebo has closed its third round of funding, and it came in at a big amount: $25 million.……
Read MoreSocial IM Firm Meebo Closes Funding; Announcement Tomorrow
Mountain View, CA-based Meebo, the popular web-based IM service, has closed its big round of funding, we have learned, and the announcement……
Read MoreGigaOM Daily: MySpace Mobile Launches, Meebo Money & More
[qi:083] MySpace Mobile is now live at http://m.myspace.com. You can do most of things you do on MySpace via the mobile page…
Read MoreWill It Scale?
That was the question asked of the four panelists on Monday’s Scalability Boot Camp Panel at South by Southwest. The panelists, who…
Read MoreMeebo Grows Up, Goes Beyond IM Roots, Launches Platform
[qi:006] Meebo, the Mountain View, Calif.-based start-up that popularized web-based instant messaging, is celebrating its second anniversary today. The three-person company we…
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