***UPDATE****
Thanks for the feedback you’ve all sent through about the #reallyNewMeebo. We’re very excited about our new journey and there’s a lot more to come in the future.
In the meantime, it seems there’s a bit of confusion on how to find the classic version of Meebo, and also whether your chat logs are still available (they are!). To find the classic Meebo Messenger:
- Go to meebo.com/messenger, log in, and start chatting!
- From meebo.com:
- Logged in to Meebo? Click on the button “Looking for the Meebo Messenger?” located at the bottom right hand side under “Recommended People.”
- Logged out of Meebo? Click on the button “Looking for the Meebo Messenger?” directly under the “Sign In” window at meebo.com.
Thanks!
This is one of the most interesting blog posts I’ve written in the history of Meebo…because it’s about a ground up re-imagination.
Literally weeks after Elaine, Sandy and I launched the original
Meebo, people running web sites asked us to build a version of Meebo that would run inside their sites. We focused on that challenge for a couple of years, and ultimately built the Meebo Bar. You can see an example of it at
tvguide.com. According to comScore, in November the Meebo Bar crested 100 million US uniques monthly – that’s almost half the U.S. internet audience!
But as we focused on Meebo and the users on other people’s sites, we shifted focus from our own destination site at
meebo.com. Startups need to stay focused or perish. That focus paid off. The Meebo Bar did wonders for us as a business – almost 6 billion monthly page views and reach to more than 250 million monthly uniques worldwide according to Quantcast. Revenue is solidly in the mid 8 figure zone, up significantly from the year before.
And now it’s time to turn our attention back to our users at
meebo.com – our core destination site.
Today, Meebo is launching a re-imagination of what meebo.com can be. And trust me, if you saw what we have up our sleeves, you’d understand how much this is just the very, very beginning. But baby steps first.
First, when you visit meebo.com, you’ll notice it looks very different. For starters, the Meebo Bar is now a part of meebo.com. You can still chat with your friends across networks – but this is now done through the same experience that thousands of other sites enjoy today.
Second, just like we make it super easy to chat with your friends across networks, now you can really easily share with them too. All you do is drag a Meebo Check-in
bookmarklet up into your bookmarks bar, and with one click you can now share to your friends across the web. When you check in to interesting stuff you find around the web, you choose whether that link is shared to Facebook, Twitter, or both.
But it gets even more interesting.
Back at Meebo, we’re giving you some pretty interesting stats. For starters, you get:
- a history of all the cool pictures, videos, sites and stories you’ve checked into.
- real time updates on how many people have clicked on your links, broken down by Facebook, Twitter, and Meebo.
- to see how many clicks your friends are getting by following them (my favorite part…it gets competitive, fast. I’m behind my #1 nemesis, but I will catch up!)
There’s lots more to the re-imagined Meebo: a new logo, representing our destination’s re-imagination; a new color scheme; but so much more. I hope you’ll explore it to find all the little subtleties our incredible product team has worked in. You can also, of course, get back to the original
Meebo Messenger if you choose.
The last thing I want to leave you with is that this is very much just the beginning. We hope that what we’re launching today is enough to capture your imagination. We hope that what’s to come will ultimately make your web browsing experience magical. For information, please go
here.
