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Meebo reaches over 70 million with new partnerships

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Meebo announced an additional round of partners who signed up to use Meebo Community IM for their own users, making Meebo the largest open IM network on the web. In combination with the eight launch partners announced in July, the network of partners signed up to use Meebo now has a total unduplicated global reach of 72.9 million and an unduplicated reach in the US of 26.2 million.

Meebo’s latest offering, Meebo Community IM, integrates open instant messaging into online communities, enabling live communication and real-time notifications between members of social media, entertainment, gaming, and blog networks. Users are also able to communicate with each other at meebo.com, resulting in an open and federated instant messaging network based on the collective social graphs of some of the Web’s largest community sites and instant messaging services. Meebo Community IM partners signed to date include Bleacher Report, DanceJam, Dhingana, Fanpop, Flixster, Global Grind, IBeatYou, myYearbook, Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids and Family Group’s AddictingGames, OrangeShark, Piczo, PerfSpot, SparkArt, Sugar Publishing, Tagged, UGAME.net, Yaari, Zinch, and Zorpia.

Originally posted on October 14, 2008 @ 9:10 am

How about an online community on vitamins?

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The Vitamin Shoppe has launched a new free online community complete with message boards, expert leaders, and an abundance of health, wellness, and sports nutrition advice.

The Vitamin Shoppe online community also has a variety of experts on the boards who not only host discussions, but can answer specific questions.

The community forum also allows members to develop specific profiles about their workout, diet, and supplementation practices. They can track their progress in an online journal and share that with the community or just with friends. They can participate in discussions from topics as diverse as losing weight to bodybuilding to nutrition, to various health conditions.

“The online community is a natural extension of the conversations that happen in our stores everyday,” said Lou Weiss, VP and General Manager of Vitamin Shoppe Direct. “Our members are coming together in this community to not only share their experiences, but also to get the unparalleled knowledge and advice that Vitamin Shoppe is known for.”

Originally posted on August 25, 2008 @ 7:39 am