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AOL releases new AIM Express

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AOL has introduced AIM Express, a new Flash-based web version of its AIM service, enabling users to chat with friends and family without needing to install software. AIM Express offers users a clean design and a richer Web-based instant messaging experience with easy access to their buddies from nearly anywhere.

AOL also announced the availability of AIM for Windows Mobile. Users of smartphones including the Motorola Q, Samsung BlackJack and many Palm Treos can now enjoy all the best features of AIM for the desktop while on-the-go, such as status messages and buddy icons. In addition, AIM for Windows Mobile also gives users the choice of sending text messages via SMS. Advertising will be supported by Third Screen Media, Platform-A’s mobile ad serving platform and network.

Originally posted on August 20, 2008 @ 10:36 am

Meebo launches IM for online communities

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Meebo announced a new product called Meebo Community Instant Messaging designed to integrate open instant messaging into online communities. Beginning with DanceJam, Flixster, myYearbook, Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids and Family Group’s AddictingGames, Piczo, SparkArt, Sugar Publishing and Tagged as major launch partners, the integrated IM service will enable live interaction and real-time conversation between members of online communities such as social media, gaming, and blog networks. The result is the creation of an open and federated instant messaging network based on the collective social graphs of some of the Web’s largest community sites. Users will be able to exchange IMs with friends and community members seamlessly on site, and then continue those conversations at meebo.com.

Originally posted on July 17, 2008 @ 9:43 am

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