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Re: The most underhyped Silicon Valley success: Meebo

Fling Brands — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:31:44 -0000

Both Meebo and Twitter are great and serve vaguely similar purposes, but with hindsight as my guide, Twitter's mass media acceptance really gave a leg up in this imaginary race between the two companies.

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Re: The most underhyped Silicon Valley success: Meebo

Guest — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:04:40 -0000

Cant help but add: When an actor is recognized by the Character -- its called success.. so.. when ceo will be recognized by meebo.. it is success..

Re: The most underhyped Silicon Valley success: Meebo

Guest — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:02:55 -0000

BTW: Just to Clarify: I though Scobleizer ( i still cant pronounce your name) was some name after a BEER :) --> I just bookmarked your Blog --> not you.. if I were u.. I would take that as a compliment..

Cheers
Olga Lednichenko

Re: The most underhyped Silicon Valley success: Meebo

Guest — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:01:22 -0000

I use meemo at my Blog and I like it for other things as well.. But Robert.. I am confused : I thought its always better when a company ( betetr - product) is known not the company or the CEO behind the same.. Are you sure you didnt get the other way round?

Think P& G.. most people know their products.. few people can associate the or the company !

PS: I didnt know your name for a long time but I knew your blog for a long time ( I dont notice Robert) ..

Cheers
Olga Lednichenko

Re: The most underhyped Silicon Valley success: Meebo

Josh — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:43:23 -0000

@st0ragebear

I would a lot of people use Meebo is becuase they cant install anything (work, school etc) so wouldn't have firefox anyway. However they probably should fix that soon.

Re: The most underhyped Silicon Valley success: Meebo

primelens — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:14:26 -0000

I have been on Meebo since late last year. The service is great and is continually improving. I especially love the company blog update everytime you start Meebo.

Meebo me??? :)

Re: The most underhyped Silicon Valley success: Meebo

Gianni — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:09:47 -0000

Meebo is great! :)
http://www.helpmetogeta5d.tk/

Re: The most underhyped Silicon Valley success: Meebo

Prokofy — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:21:07 -0000

Gosh, I didn't think to tell you how important Meebo is! My teenagers use it at least an hour a day, it's a big constant in their lives, beyond AIM, beyond WoW or cell phones or anything. Why? Because you can run several services at once on it, AIM plus YM etc. Why else? Because it's very simple, you just go on the web.

Most people don't want to post for everyone else to see it, they just want to have personal conversations with their friends, but several friends simultaneously and separately, Meebo suits their needs perfectly.

Re: The most underhyped Silicon Valley success: Meebo

novelistkat — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:36:02 -0000

I really enjoy Meebo. So glad you reviewed it.

Re: The most underhyped Silicon Valley success: Meebo

Jef — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:29:13 -0000

Great post and it echos pop culture. Most of the best music, movies, whatever is underhyped. Meanwhile, pop music is full of crap. Pop in any medium usually sucks. Always has, always will.

Re: The most underhyped Silicon Valley success: Meebo

st0ragebear — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:08:51 -0000

Did it ever occur to you that perhaps why "most of their their users are on Internet Explorer" is because meebo is INCOMPATIBLE with the latest version of Firefox? (That's right, neither FF3 or FF3.1 work AT ALL with meebo) There's a shining example of a web site for ya.

Re: The most underhyped Silicon Valley success: Meebo

Josh — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:07:41 -0000

@EBWhite. What the hell? Does that give you some kind of satisfaction? Do you not even feel slightly lame for pointing out a mis-capitalized non-verb? It's like you think intelligence has something to do with pure grammatical correctness.

Anyway, great post Robert! First time you've got me to comment and I've been following your blog since January...

As some of these comments show though, it's clear to see why what Tech enthusiasts think simply doesn't equate to mainstream appeal. The success of Meebo is because 90% of people who use IM, use it because they just want to chat to their friends!

File transfers, sharing, all those extra features... who cares really. The reality is Meebo is successful because it works just about everywhere and anywhere and does exactly what the mainstream wants... chat.

Re: The most underhyped Silicon Valley success: Meebo

Go Matt... — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:22:53 -0000

You know the amazing thing about all this new media and hype and all your self agrandizement on here and FriendFeed...

Is that still one of the top most popular websites out there in hits and searches and relevance is still The Drudgereport. And it's not a blog, a feed, doesn't even have RSS capability. It's just plain old fashioned Internet muckraking by hand.

Re: The most underhyped Silicon Valley success: Meebo

Yert — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:05:40 -0000

I second the motion to put a Meebo Room on your blog Scoble. Otherwise your just letting Meebo sink into the depths.

Re: The most underhyped Silicon Valley success: Meebo

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Re: The most underhyped Silicon Valley success: Meebo

E.B. White — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:41:45 -0000

okay. I stand corrected on "video". But still consider it poor English.
Bruce, I'd love to update it. But Strunk thinks we should incorporate text writing

Re: The most underhyped Silicon Valley success: Meebo

brooks van norman — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:09:19 -0000

Meebo Mobile and Meebo's Firefox extension rock. Video, like everything else has a very short shelf life. TubeMogul's got some great stats on this if anyone's interested.

Re: The most underhyped Silicon Valley success: Meebo

Guest — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:50:08 -0000

I used Meebo when I worked for a company that didn't allow us to install IM clients. I never blogged about it because it just wasn't very interesting and IM has been around for many years. The most excitement I saw around an IM client was ICQ and that's because it was something new. That's what Twitter has going for it: It's something new.

Re: The most underhyped Silicon Valley success: Meebo

Chris Bucchere — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:04:22 -0000

@Josh Catone: I disagree that meebo doesn't have a vibrant developer community. There are 50+ third party applications (which doesn't hold a candle to Facebook's 10,000+ applications, but still it shows that people are developing for the platform). Also, there are thousands of people who embed "meebo me" widgets and thousands more who integrate meebo rooms (which can be skinned to match your site).

I've been using meebo since the alpha in 2005 and since day one, they've been my IM client of choice. No install, cross-IM-vendor support, good buddy-list management, FF plugin, works on port 80 to subvert firewall restrictions, great UI, unobtrusive ads, free, fast, skinnable, etc.

My history with IM:

http://feedhaus.blogspot.co...

One of the meebo applications I built:

http://feedhaus.blogspot.co...

Re: The most underhyped Silicon Valley success: Meebo

Bruce Curley — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:59:57 -0000

E.B. White...what do you think about Robert's word "monetizable?"

Are you still updating "Elements of Style?"

Re: The most underhyped Silicon Valley success: Meebo

sam — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:59:44 -0000

and what IS meebo?

Re: The most underhyped Silicon Valley success: Meebo

seth — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:33:19 -0000

Hey Catchwa & Les - when we first launched meebo, you would have been right on the money. The primary use case was at work, followed by school and then home. Over time, the user case switched to where meebo's now primarily used at people's homes, followed by school and work. I think it's a bit like Hotmail is to email - you can get the same experience everywhere, so you use it no matter where you are, including at home. So people likely found meebo at work and then brought it home with them.

Re: The most underhyped Silicon Valley success: Meebo

Tom Schavo — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:02:48 -0000

i use meebo regularly, helps me get all messengers into one.

Re: The most underhyped Silicon Valley success: Meebo

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Re: The most underhyped Silicon Valley success: Meebo

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