

Meebo adds Facebook and MySpace chat for full chat goodness - moses1400
http://www.centernetworks.com/meebo-facebook-myspace-chat

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trickjarrett
Meebo is an impressive breakout from the past few years, they keep pushing the
envelope and are really doing an amazing job at finding their revenue stream
as well as finding new functionality which brings their users back over and
over.

What's next? Complete interoperability?

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axod
It's funny how little you hear about Meebo compared to say Twitter. Meebo do a
good job in the main, although I'm not convinced Meebo rooms was a good idea.

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mdasen
It's true. Probably because Meebo tends against lock-in and everyone is
obsessed with being the next company with lock-in and, therefore, Microsoft-
like profits.

Twitter has users with accounts, histories, people they follow. Same with
Facebook, MySpace, etc. Meebo can be "easily" replaced by a competitor. Easily
in this case means, you don't have to transfer all your data nor do you need
to get your friends to move services.

That's why we aren't as giddy about Meebo. They need to keep working really
hard to stay one step ahead of the competition. As opposed to
Twitter/Facebook/MySpace who have to work just hard enough that users won't
take the effort to transfer data and bug their friends to switch to a
competitor.

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ntoshev
I agree, Google can be replaced just as "easily".

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fourlittlebees
Am I the only person in the world who intentionally avoids both those apps
like the plague? Facebook chat doesn't work in Camino. All hail Camino.

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neilc
No one I know uses Facebook Chat.

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gustaf
Facebook have shown that IM on websites is really just a commodity at this
point. The technology is not the hard part but them owning the social graph is
powerful here. I do believe that Facebook Chat will succeed and I think it
already is.

However, chat have never been easy to monetize so right now it's adding to the
amount of time that users spend on facebook. Which is good

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zack
Haha, no way! This is great news. Now, I only wish I had access to my Facebook
chat list within my Gmail client. I already have both AIM and GChat rolled
into one, and that's great. Then, I just need an iPhone client, and some way
to integrate it with both texting and email.

Exchange for chat + email + texting, all specced out with an API for easy
integration into browser-side clients...

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ntoshev
Meebo works well in the iPhone browser.

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river_styx
Great, now I can chat with all the annoying acquaintances and old highschool
friends who randomly add me on Facebook. I think I'll pass.

