At meebo we keep a wall of post-notes where we track of all of the requested features from the blog, forum, and comments@meebo.com. When a feature is requested, it is moved up the queue. Today, you’ll probably notice a half dozen new features that we’re excited to release based upon everyone’s recent feedback.
1) Sound! A few weeks ago, Jennifer J emailed, “… it’s hard to know if someone is chatting with me if I don’t have the window in focus… are there any plans to implement notifier sounds? A little beep or even the system beep would really help.” Fortunately, Jian is a former DJ and one day he toted in his headphones, sound mixing board, and got to work. However, if you think silence is golden, you’ll notice a small audio button for disabling sound when you need to be discreet.
2) Mobile indicator This is one of those features that we would have never predicted would be so essential. However, the mobile request kept cropping up again and again. Most of the time Sandy is optimizing the backend but every once in a while she likes to dip her toes in the JavaScript too. The mobile indicator feature is all Sandy’s doing. If any of your buddies has forwarded their IMs to their mobile phones, you’ll notice a small mobile icon to the left of their names. If it weren’t for the forums we would have never realized how much-needed this feature really is!
3) IM anyone Check out the third icon from the left on the buddy list. Meebo users can message friends not included on their buddy lists or use this feature as a shortcut to pull up an IM window without searching through the buddy list and double-clicking on a name.
4) Emoticons We also posted an official emoticon page which will get linked to the wiki shortly. We’re planning on adding more in the future, so if you have any suggestions for ones you’d like to see, please feel free to let us know.
5) Navigate away prompt We know how frustrating it is to unintentionally lose your IM history because you clicked on the wrong link or hit the wrong key while messaging. Hari wrote, “If we sign out, ideally it should ask for confirmation and close window.” Now when someone navigates away from meebo, they’ll be asked to confirm that they want to leave meebo before closing their IM session if they have not already logged out. No more lost messages!
6) Lots of bug fixes I’m probably the most proud of all of the bug fixes that went into this release that might be harder to spot. First off, we fixed the IE5.5 issue (thanks so much zys and grebe who originally isolated the problem to IE5.x!), fixed a Firefox cursor issues, enabled right clicks in the IM window, and enabled more linking from the textarea.
We’re really proud of this release and we hope that everyone will enjoy the new features. A special thanks to Trina from Kansas City for all of the words of encouragement and to all of those who have taken time to give us feedback through the forum, the blog, and email. Let us know what you’d like to see next!
-Elaine
[ comments ] [ past blogs ]
March 20th, 2006 at 12:46 am
Whoah, sounds like you guys did update a lot of things!
Fantastic! Thanks for all the hard work
March 20th, 2006 at 2:50 am
Hello, the sound are cool but its annoying to hear a sound every time I write. My sugestion is to hear the sound only when a buddy types… not when I type
March 20th, 2006 at 6:23 am
I am very happy about the Firefox cursor bug fix!
March 20th, 2006 at 6:55 am
Hey, awesome new features, but I’d like to suggest that you should be able to click the links in the profile of your buddies.
Thanks, again, for the awesome browser-based chatting system.
March 20th, 2006 at 6:57 am
And also, I’d like to be able to have the ability to change and save my MSN display name. Thanks!
March 20th, 2006 at 7:56 am
Hi, I’m behind a proxy and only with your work I can go out !!!.
The sounds is very useful, but I can’t hear when somebody write me, just when I write.
March 20th, 2006 at 8:03 am
It just keeps getting better and better! Thanks!
March 20th, 2006 at 8:23 am
Excellent work! I’m really delighted to see the mobile indicator–that’s always been a problem for me, but now that you have it, meebo’s got everything I could want from an IM client (PLUS not having to download anything)!
Very impressive, folks–keep up the good work!
March 20th, 2006 at 8:57 am
Thanks for all the hard work to make meebo better. It is a great success, and keeps on improving all the time.
As for requests for emoticons that we would like, I would like to see the left hand and right hand hugs from MSN, ({) and (}).
March 20th, 2006 at 9:29 am
Hi i figured the sound was to notify me when someone was talking to me or online or something, but i can’t hear any sounds. I’m sure my volume is allll the way up and the icon is clicked showing the bars. Is it because I’m in firefox? maybe i’ll try something else
March 20th, 2006 at 9:34 am
Don’t quit the day job Jian
March 20th, 2006 at 9:58 am
you guys are awesome!
March 20th, 2006 at 10:09 am
Hey,
Just wanted to say that this is a great site that you guys got going here. Really good work all around and thanks to everyone involved. Also, I was wondering where are you guys based out of? Thanks again.
Brian
March 20th, 2006 at 10:28 am
hey…. im not really understanding how to use the sound… there is no sound icon on my meebo
… was lookin forward to it..
March 20th, 2006 at 10:52 am
Great update and keep up the great work Team, Meebo is almost as good as my gaim in my opinion. I’m starting to love meebo ALOT, great work again and just remember when your up drinking x amount of coffee or caffinated drinks that there are members who love your work. Meebo is a great product and service and I cant wait to see the “finished” product. Also meebo has inspired me to learn ajax with my php. Once again, this is a great spot on the net and I enjoy it.
March 20th, 2006 at 11:29 am
Great Job guys! i’ve been telling all my friends about the site.. especially the ones who have to use the school’s computer lab and it takes forever to DL aim, yim, or start up msn messenger..
any way i can help, let me know!
March 20th, 2006 at 11:30 am
Well all these updates just flip my flops!
March 20th, 2006 at 11:35 am
Problem with IE 7.0 beta Live…
I know, is a Beta, but, meebo is nathing in this browser!
March 20th, 2006 at 12:36 pm
I think you should be able to have pictures like on msn.sarah xxx
March 20th, 2006 at 12:47 pm
I’ve got the same problem as Rachel. Don’t hear a beep, although my housemate, who’se using IE does hear beeps and boings.
When I try in IE it does give beeps and stuff, but very weak. Maybe that’s due to my sound-setup though…
March 20th, 2006 at 12:57 pm
I hear a very weak incoming beep, also. Too faint to notice!
You know what else would be super-useful? A blinking taskbar notification for incoming messages — I always miss them, it’s too hard to notice the scrolling title bar.
Keep up the good work!!
March 20th, 2006 at 1:07 pm
i’m using safari now and i still hear nothing, it won’t even load all the way in my internet explorer.
March 20th, 2006 at 1:43 pm
hey its awsome that you guys updated but i have no sound it won’t wor maybe its just my computer i dont know well everyting you guys did is cool and thanks
March 20th, 2006 at 1:55 pm
thanks and keep up the good work, I love the emoticons and the ability to log on to more than one IM at a time.
Scott
March 20th, 2006 at 2:00 pm
Hello Every body
thank u very much for the nice website am allways use it so am very happy b/c I speak with my family in my country (IRAQ) & I speak with athore people i cant speak with them all time
take care
bye
March 20th, 2006 at 2:02 pm
thanks for the updates. any chance you guys will be addressing the ‘apostrophe’ issue with gtalk. it’s the only thing that is preventing me from dropping the gtalk .exe altogether. once you’re able to correct it, i’ll complete my conversion to a full-blown meebo-head.
March 20th, 2006 at 2:04 pm
Gr8 work, im at skwl so i can finally use an msn to keep in touch with friends etc.
March 20th, 2006 at 2:10 pm
Excellent!!
I’m very thankful to those who sugested the “Navigate Away Promt” and to you Guys for implementing it to Meebo.
Most of times I open links that use the window Meebo is running. So I lost everything and have to re-login to Meebo.
Now with this feature I am able to stop those links and never loose chat history.
THANKS
March 20th, 2006 at 3:52 pm
Awesome updates! The only thing that was there and is now missing (that I liked) is that the title bar would flash when there was an incoming IM. If I’m not at my computer it was nice to see the text scrolling through to alert me that I missing an IM. Maybe turn that feature on when there’s no sound?
March 20th, 2006 at 3:53 pm
u guys r doing a realllly good job w/ all these enhancements, my fave so far is the phone feature that indicates if some one is logged on from their fone!!! i kept sending msgs to my buddy cuz i thought they were ‘online’ then i got a msg back that sed, my IM was forwarded to their cell phone, yikes…anyway , thanks!
March 20th, 2006 at 4:11 pm
This is great. I love how you guys pay attention to what the community requests. We love you guys!
March 20th, 2006 at 4:13 pm
Hey I’m uh not seeing how to turn the sound off… where is this elusive sound button?
March 20th, 2006 at 4:28 pm
Wow, I love the firefox cursor fix. The sound was the biggest thing for me, though, it’s perfect and it’s my main AIM client. Great work.
March 20th, 2006 at 4:56 pm
hey do u guys no a fake hotmail login or myspace? i need to get on asap
March 20th, 2006 at 4:59 pm
I like to use meebo very much. The new improvements are great! Kudos! More power to you!
March 20th, 2006 at 5:13 pm
WOW the new stuff is great! Meebo’s getting better and better by the moment
Only one problem yet persists, and that’s getting disconnected ever so often…. is there someway that could be put to an end? PLS 
Thanks for the great site styll!
March 20th, 2006 at 5:43 pm
wow,thanks for all the new features. Very helpful. Keep it up!
March 20th, 2006 at 5:52 pm
hey i love meebo but can u like make it to where like umm u can copy and paste ur conversation on other IM’s.
thanks,Bailey
March 20th, 2006 at 6:04 pm
glad to see people are enjoying the sounds! Jess and adrienne and anyone else not seeing the sound icon, to hear the new meebo sounds, you’ll need to get the flash player plugin here: (http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer). We currently support versions 6 and on. We decided not to bother the folks at work who can’t have flash on their machines with those pesky plugin-upgrade messages.
some people are finding the receive sound hard to hear so we’ll be sure to bump that up.
Rachel and Bokkie, if you’re still having trouble hearing sounds after crankin up the volume, send us an email at comments@meebo.com and we’ll see if we can find out what’s going on.
Hi Dan, the sound icon is next to the ‘help’ link near the top of the page and can be clicked to toggle the sound on and off. If you’re using the same machine, it will remember your settings from last time too.
March 20th, 2006 at 6:21 pm
You guys have done some very outstanding work. You are truly innovators. Just so you know you help out more people than you think. I know of some Military members stationed in Iraq and elsewhere that utilize your services to talk to their spouses and family members, to keep them abreast on the members status and livlihood. Keep up the good work, you are moving in the right direction.
March 20th, 2006 at 7:04 pm
meebo is great, love it, but how about saving the messages! cause i cant! LOL
March 20th, 2006 at 7:27 pm
well done.gud work and fast improvement.i realy apreciate ur work.i wish u guyz will improve this much faster.
i like to sugest these things to be improve.when a message received if u can make the task bar icon blinking thatz better.and introducing sounds are realy good.but need to have a much louder alert when message arrived.
And also nudge facility and more smileys are also realy improving ur productz quality.
again well done.and keep on your good work.and thanks alot.
March 20th, 2006 at 7:46 pm
meebo is great for this blog b/c u can talk about what ever u wont, so i talk well brittney is my home dogg, shortell is giggles, hus is my bff, and scott is just my scottypoo. and i think STRATH ROX
o and FOB rules.FOB;P
March 20th, 2006 at 8:14 pm
I work for an ISP and YM is a major no-no! I missed the look and feel of YM coz we had to use Trillian. But not anymore! We got meebo!
March 20th, 2006 at 8:15 pm
How i wish meebo supports ym conference..
March 20th, 2006 at 8:18 pm
I like the way you guyrs have updated the website!! I think its cool! But I have on suggestion! I think we should be able to send our buddy list to other screen names that we have *aim* and to be able to recieve other buddy lists from other screen names! That would be so great and I would love this site forever!
March 20th, 2006 at 8:29 pm
Hey thanks for the updates, but I prefer to not have a navigate away prompt? Can you offer an option to turn that off when you log into Meebo? Thanks for the updates and Meebo overall!
March 20th, 2006 at 10:18 pm
This is really becoming a polished product! Kudos!
March 20th, 2006 at 11:21 pm
hey u know u should make it so u can go into confrences…some how i think that would be cutting edge for online chatting …without the messy…cause i havent seen it before. lol ..so yeh..do it make it so u can go into confrences on yahoo,aim,msn…
March 20th, 2006 at 11:51 pm
Great job!!! In such a short period of time you’ve made life easier for us!!! Keep it up!
March 21st, 2006 at 12:38 am
gr8 job…seems like real hardwork has been put up in all these things…but i would also like to have the option of saving my chat histories to b included…plz try to make it..if poss…
March 21st, 2006 at 12:51 am
Hi
I love the sound update, the sound is lovely, not too annoying (like ICQ).
I noticed that some people whanted a blinking taskbar when messages are incoming. This is one of the reasons that I’m using meebo. The blinking taskbars of MSN and ICQ disturbs me too much at work.
If you implement thing that blink more or more noise please make sure that the user can turn them of of use a alternative style.
Thanks for a great experience =)
March 21st, 2006 at 1:49 am
i have sound disabled on the computer im using, i would use this webmessenger except when someone messages me i have no idea.if the window popd up or blinked i wouyld be eternally gratefull:)
troy
March 21st, 2006 at 4:26 am
Thank You guys for this extremely useful site! I recently sent my computer for repairs n had to use my university’s computer for assignments, etc.. i thought my life would be miserable from there on bcoz the uni comp doesnt allow ym, aol, msn msgr etc.. luckily a friend of mine suggested this site, n it has done wonders. got to chat, discuss n lots more.. thanks guys.. u saved me. cheers from ireland.
March 21st, 2006 at 4:28 am
Your service is very great.
March 21st, 2006 at 4:37 am
ur service is great but create the chat rooms that are in yahoo messenger
March 21st, 2006 at 5:19 am
great work by www17.meebo.com.
keep it up.
we hope to see better in future.
March 21st, 2006 at 6:50 am
Great upgrades.
Can u see if the following can be included:
1. At times I’m receiving buzzes. But I cannot buzz back.
Can u add a “Buzz” button to the interface.
2. If chat rooms can be accessed from Meebo.
But really guys. It’s not that we are complaining. U see, the above can make a gr8 site gr8er still.
March 21st, 2006 at 6:54 am
Hey this is brill this is the only site i can use for msn on my site just add a block button and id be really pleased!
March 21st, 2006 at 6:54 am
The sound feature doesn’t seem to work in my pc. I am using firefox 1.5.0.1 in windows XP. Hope you can fix it soon.
Waiting for sound…
March 21st, 2006 at 7:46 am
Emoticon required: Good ol’ evil face: >:)
March 21st, 2006 at 8:23 am
Will you please fix the bug that creates a popup with your latest blog post?
March 21st, 2006 at 8:44 am
Alot of times the pics to the left of peoples sn’s do not load properly. Its not really a big deal but it is kind of annoying. It happens mostly if you click to talk to that person and not so much for people who you do not talk to. Thanks for such a great site.
March 21st, 2006 at 9:04 am
Thank you very much! Saunds are ideal.
from Russia
March 21st, 2006 at 9:11 am
Wonderful release as always, go Team :Meebo:
March 21st, 2006 at 9:15 am
wow!!! improvng!!!….nice to see that.
March 21st, 2006 at 10:11 am
umm is there any way that i and my friend get on meebo at school becuase are school has blocked everything so if there is any new ways to get to meebo can u please tell me so i cna get on at school
thank u
and i tihkn that you all are doing a great job on the site
March 21st, 2006 at 10:31 am
hi
i think meebo is great! its easy to use and soo much clearer than sp,me other chat rooms…
i do need a bit of help tho…. im not too keen on the “nagivating out of the page” whih you guys have done… i mean when im in a rush and have to go, i normally just exit, but now i have to confirm…
how can u stop that for me?
nevertheless…YOU GUYS ARE GREAT!!!
March 21st, 2006 at 10:40 am
The beep rocks!
THANK YOU !!
March 21st, 2006 at 12:01 pm
I love the new sound option! its very useful now i dont leave people waiting when i get distracted!!!
thanks! I love this site!
March 21st, 2006 at 12:05 pm
You guys are GREAT!!!
always improving….
: )
(how about creating personal chat room options?)
March 21st, 2006 at 12:39 pm
Msn Nicknames! you cant change it! its horrible whenever i need to change it i have to get a friend to go on my account and do it for me. please add a name changer on it so i can change my msn nicknames whenever i want. thank you
March 21st, 2006 at 1:06 pm
hey guys.. i really like the updates… it’s a realy sweet site!! but one more thing, could u add some kind of option where u can see when people sign in like the ones on MSN? coz if the window is not in focus u can’t really know who’s on or off.. anyways.. just wondering.. thanks for everything!
–Keep up the good work
=D RoUbZ
March 21st, 2006 at 1:34 pm
Just wanted to add my voice to those saying, “Well done” – the service you guys are providing and constantly enhancing is second to none and I applaud your efforts. Thanks very much
March 21st, 2006 at 1:44 pm
Afternoon all!
Cheers for a great service – here’s a few for you to add to your wall of post-it’s:
1. A drop-down selector for sorting the buddy list in different ways, group by protocol, by status etc etc – this can be done client side, but it would be nice to have the preference saved into your account.
2. A checkbox in the sign-on account box (accessed from the bottom of the buddy list), for “Add this account to ‘My Meebo’ account” – it took me three attempts of adding accounts that way to realise that they didn’t stick unless added via the “My Meebo” menu! Alternatively you could make this the default and have a checkbox for “Do not add this account to ‘My Meebo’” – this would almost be preferable, as it’s more intuitive.
3. I just noticed that there is no obvious way to change your nickname for any accounts – It would be nice if the accounts list on the left had your current nickname next to it, and clicking on the nickname transformed it into a pre-populated textbox for editing – Clicking outside the textbox would obviously save this. This should also be saved into your “My Meebo” account.
4. Buddy aliases. Please PLEASE allow me to set an alias for any buddy! (Emo nicknames are the bane of my life…)
5. It would be awesome if you wrote a contact-management API, with support for groups etc. This would enable synchronisation of full clients with meebo, shifting contacts between groups and the like. (This obviously requires customisable buddy groups in the first place)
6. Contact grouping (Again dependent on buddy groups, as they’re subgroups) – essentially allow you to create a group for a user and place all their accounts from the different services into this group. The order that they are in the group defines the order in which the accounts are shown once the group is collapsed to show a single account. See Gaim for this concept.
Bit of a tall order all that really, but something to think about anyway!
March 21st, 2006 at 1:57 pm
Hi!
how can i change my nick?
kisses
March 21st, 2006 at 2:08 pm
How about an irc support?
March 21st, 2006 at 2:31 pm
Postit notes all over a wall? How about a bugzilla site to keep track of these requests?
March 21st, 2006 at 2:34 pm
Okay meebo is a life saver!! My boyfriend is out of country right now and talking on the phone can be expensive, my parents wont allow me to download messenger because dad thinks it tends to mess up the computer. Its really nice to be able to access this from anywhere (except school-its filtered) and is easy and fun to use. Im on everyday and this just keeps getting better with the stuff you guys add. Thank you so much!
a good thing to look into is a time recieved thing. I know you guys have it for when you log on but if someone leaves an message when your offline.. it gives you the time that you logged on and not the original sent time. ya know what i mean? well ya.. keep up the good work ya’ll !
March 21st, 2006 at 4:03 pm
Meebo seems to be getting slower and slower, both in loading the pages and in doing operations like moving a window around. Is this because of increased usage or increasing complexity of the page (or both)? If it’s the latter, could you make a visually minimal version so things will work faster?
March 21st, 2006 at 4:05 pm
id just like to say this is an amazing site ..but would be so much better if we could somehow use colors in our away messages. or make a profile.
but its really coming a long.
thanks,
ashley
March 21st, 2006 at 5:01 pm
I don´t understand that abiout sound…. I don´t see any place where I could “Queez” my friends…
March 21st, 2006 at 6:11 pm
Awesome! I love the new features!
Loads much better too. I am so happy you fixed the MSN problem!
March 21st, 2006 at 6:17 pm
Great features! Keep up the good work.
March 21st, 2006 at 8:15 pm
I have been using Meebo for so long now, it is become as natural to log in into meebo, as it is to open my mailbox
I esp. love the confirmation message that pops when we have to navigate away from the page.
Great work !!
March 21st, 2006 at 9:10 pm
ahh, this is awesome stuff.
thanks for your great work guys =]
March 21st, 2006 at 9:57 pm
May I suggest you to make Y!Meebo (
) to be able to do Conferences.. pls?
March 21st, 2006 at 10:28 pm
can’t to see the next release.. eehehe!! tnx for the update!! hope you could do the chat/conference thing.. =)
March 21st, 2006 at 10:56 pm
the emoticons are really very coool
P)
March 21st, 2006 at 11:45 pm
Maybe I’m dense, but how do you give a buddy an alias?
March 22nd, 2006 at 2:19 am
i m very happy to use this iste,thank you meebo, its really very awesome
March 22nd, 2006 at 7:07 am
wow you guys that is great, I have a request, sometimes a person is online but you really dont want to talk to them, can there be an option to block/unblock?
thanks
-Sally
March 23rd, 2006 at 12:52 am
estoy probando mandar correo por meebo
mayi
March 23rd, 2006 at 12:55 am
dime si recibiste
mayi
March 23rd, 2006 at 1:09 am
dime si recibiste con distinta identidad mia
March 23rd, 2006 at 9:40 pm
a simple request: please switch the audio clips. the one for sending is louder and clearer than the one for recieving. this would be great thanks
March 24th, 2006 at 2:21 am
Hey guys,
Anything else is just great in this meebo!
as an everyday meebo user, I’m so glad all these updates are done so often, to make it better and better, but I just have 2 small remarks: since the sound came, my browser’s (firefox) title bar does not blink anymore to indicate incomming messages while in the middle of a conversation (it does still when someone BEGINS a conversation), and second, I believe that the sound when I type something is not really useful, since I know I typed, I don’t need to be reminded of that
March 25th, 2006 at 11:16 am
i am not only commenting the wonderful blog u put up… but i am alsotelling everyone that alyssa’s questions is now up in busness! that meens that 24, 7 is a time to ask alyssa a question: anything from LOVE to a FAMILY CRICES i have been there and known that for years. i am a profesional. i can help with your emotions and every part of your life. after asking your question sign it at the bottom saying to:alyssa then tune into this blog everyday to see the results i give you. thank you and have a great day! and remeber i am here to help.
March 31st, 2006 at 6:28 am
Hi
March 31st, 2006 at 11:59 am
Hi, I wish if meebo would have this feature ‘Sending and Receving Files’ between users. As this feature would be very useful for us, to transfer our projects, and small files.
I know that it will take too much load on your server, if you enable file transfer services, but then you can apply an idea of p2p softwares, which connects user from user, and there is no third person(server) involved between.
April 1st, 2006 at 6:09 pm
Hi
April 2nd, 2006 at 4:24 pm
hey guys if wanna talk my instantmessage is hollisterbowler
April 2nd, 2006 at 4:26 pm
hi
April 6th, 2006 at 11:55 pm
Hi, the sound is good. It will be great if a sound can be given if some buddies are online and when someone go offline.
April 11th, 2006 at 2:53 pm
i was just asking can you make it so you can cut and paste things on to the IBM
Thank you,
crystal
April 17th, 2006 at 11:01 pm
[...] Wer Jabber, ICQ, MSN, yahoo, AIM oder GTalk auf der Arbeit nutzen möchte ohne eine Software installieren zu müssen, der ist mit meebo sehr gut beraten. Dieser kleine Multi-Protocol-Browser-Client ist schick und wird ständig weiterentwickelt. Mittlerweile gibt es ihn sogar in über 30 Sprachen! [...]
March 27th, 2007 at 9:42 am
ian copeland
Approved articles about ian copeland.
April 1st, 2007 at 5:59 am
hey how do u add buddies
April 23rd, 2007 at 3:42 pm
indian teen
Advantages of indian teen.
May 17th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
my beeping isn’t working anymore! what can I do to fix it?
October 1st, 2007 at 10:24 am
whats the limit for chat history logs …because i am a regular user of meebo for nearly 6 months ….and today i found all my chat history totally erased….
…. ..why so ? please explain …
May 1st, 2009 at 1:33 am
agapav trela ton mano !!!!11