Sandy, Seth, and I regularly meet on Sunday afternoons. We usually meet over lunch, set out weekly goals, and just catch up before another week begins. Today when I walked into Sandy’s apartment, I had to laugh. Sandy didn’t move from her computer chair and held her part of the 2-3 hour conversation in front of her glowing monitors consulting with Simon and keeping an eye on meebo me’s servers. It reminds me of the initial meebo launch back in September 2005 when Sandy tended to our two tiny meebo servers in true Matrix-style. Sandy spent those first two weeks perched from her office chair, picking out runaway processes and spotting memory leaks from streaming columns of numbers.
Today, Sandy and Simon are tweaking and optimizing the backend — she and Simon expect meebo me to run more smoothly this week. Thanks for everyone’s help through email, on the forum, and just for being patient while we continued to make meebo me better. We’ve got an ever-growing to-do list to get meebo me where we think it needs to be and we’re looking forward to bringing these improvements to the meebo community.
Jason (the same rockstar intern who created the meebo map) gathered some meebo me statistics on Friday, barely 48 hours into the launch. On early Friday, approximately 143,000 unique visitors had viewed a meebo widget on a page. On Thursday and Friday, around 24,000 websites hosted a meebo me widget. Of these active widgets, about 19% reside on myspace.com pages, 5% on wordpress blogs, and a handful on xanga and other sites. We also saw 29 widgets with over 1000 visitors each during this period. Just one of these super-spreaders accounted for over 14% of our meebo me traffic. You can safely guess that Sandy and Simon have been very busy 
Given the team’s extra efforts launching meebo me, there’s nothing as gratifying as seeing the product improve and spread. When we get a chance, Sandy’s looking forward to posting a blog on the technical challenges meebo me has faced (scaling is always top of mind). Jason’s working on some up-to-the-minute stats scripts to track the meebo me traffic and we’ll keep you updated with those new numbers. In the meanwhile, please let us know if you see anything suspicious through the forum or over email. We genuinely appreciate your feedback and support!
Take Care!
-Elaine
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August 6th, 2006 at 11:10 pm
Thanks to you guys! Can’t be happier to know that the best, free things are becoming even better.. Keep up the good work!
August 6th, 2006 at 11:57 pm
Hellow i am sanjay
August 6th, 2006 at 11:59 pm
hi
August 7th, 2006 at 12:15 am
Its really time to automate processes and get certain work flows going. It seems your baby is growing to fast and crushing your lifes with work… Sunday working? sitting in front of the monitor 4 hours to watch servers?
August 7th, 2006 at 12:15 am
hey, hi all of u
how r u
happy friendship day
have a nice time
sids.
August 7th, 2006 at 12:31 am
hey….happppy friendship day….:)
ii reallly like the blogs that sandy writes……
keeep it up…
August 7th, 2006 at 12:40 am
happy kindly days for everey body.
August 7th, 2006 at 12:43 am
I am from iran.
August 7th, 2006 at 12:55 am
The meebo widget is a fantastic tool ! I’ve just added it on my blog to discuss with visitors and it works great. I hope my friends will start to use the widget tool too…
You guys are doing a really nice job ! congratulations !!!
August 7th, 2006 at 2:21 am
i love you elaine, hope this will help you keep going…
August 7th, 2006 at 4:39 am
The widget is awsome !!!
now, if only i can get the users to leave comments and chat with me
Thanks guys, for a fantastic piece of software.
August 7th, 2006 at 4:48 am
I am unable to send group message. It will be better sending a message to all by selecting a group.
August 7th, 2006 at 7:37 am
Hi Elaine, Really cute dear send me an e-mail we can chat a bit
August 7th, 2006 at 8:19 am
Have you all given any thought to Big Brother or similar monitoring software? What you are doing is incredible, but it’s totally eating your lives.
August 7th, 2006 at 10:04 am
Good work guys! I notice a dramatic improvement in the MeeboMe services. On an unrelated note, is Sandy single?
kidding.
August 7th, 2006 at 11:16 am
I cant even Imagine the scalibility issues you guys are going through or will encounter, I am 100% behind your efforts though. BTW I love meebo!
August 7th, 2006 at 8:55 pm
Hi,
This is yogesh Nagpal from delhi,INDIA.I want to thanks meebo team who has developed such a wonderful web messangerthrough which i m always online on hotmail,gmail and yahoo id’s during official hours as well as nonofficial hours.I m working as an software engineer.Through Meebo i m always in touch with my family,parents and of course the loved ones.
Thanks to meebo development team,
With regards,
Yogesh Nagpal,
Software Engineer,
New Delhi(INDIA)
August 7th, 2006 at 10:18 pm
Super cool…Super Good! Couldnt thank the meebo team enough! And keep those blogs flowing…Thank you Elanie and team!
August 7th, 2006 at 10:34 pm
am confused How do you guys make money
August 7th, 2006 at 11:07 pm
Hey there mate was up, ive been using this software for quiet some time now. Always used in office or college computer where there is no access to yahoo chat. Hey thanks even though I had a couple of fines on me due to chatting where you shouldnt do it, but what the hell sometimes it gets boring.
Chill
August 8th, 2006 at 12:59 am
great work meebo!
August 8th, 2006 at 1:47 am
Hi !!
Was just testing this out how it works…
August 8th, 2006 at 5:18 am
any one can do this work
August 8th, 2006 at 5:21 am
hi. everybody piz chat daily..
August 8th, 2006 at 5:22 am
Hi, I am Atiq from Bangladesh. Bangladesh is a very very beautifull country in the world. I invete everyone to Bangladesh. You can add my mail address this is atiq425@yahoo.com
ok no more today
thanks to everyone
Atiqur Rahman
August 8th, 2006 at 6:19 am
You guys have any candid “in action” pictures of you guys? I wanna see the “matrix-style” that you guys have. That’s soooo coool if you could! Thanks!
August 8th, 2006 at 10:19 am
hey hey ppl u can add ma adde itz pinkbabe2006@hotmail.co.uk
August 8th, 2006 at 10:20 am
stop kicking my dog!!!
August 8th, 2006 at 10:22 am
Hey you kids, you better stop kicking my dog!!
August 8th, 2006 at 10:23 am
Thank you guys so much for meebo. it is my new favorite website. you guys are so amazing and dedicated. YAY for meebo!
August 8th, 2006 at 10:36 am
hi waz up
August 8th, 2006 at 11:14 am
Can you guys build a function to disable the blog, or just put a link to it instead of that being the first window? What if AOL Instant Messenger started up with a blog in a window everytime?
August 8th, 2006 at 3:03 pm
HI!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ve completed my first Greasemonkey script that uses your FABULOUS (huh… is it spelled right??) Widget. It integrates meebo with del.icio.us and flickrs
If you are a flickr user, please, give it a try, I’m looking for feedback!!
http://www.flickr.com/groups/flickrhacks/discuss/72157594229661831/
August 8th, 2006 at 3:34 pm
When I first read the intro I though it said “Sadly, Seth, and I regularly meet on Sunday afternoons.”
August 8th, 2006 at 9:13 pm
heii im from Peru haha and im sorry if i say something weird or just something that doesnt makes sense…. (my english is not that good) but anywayz… i was wondering if theres any way to put a webcam feature on meebo…. coz i really really need something like that… pls haha it would be cool if u answered back just saying yes or no… thank you very much. and yeah u did an awesome job! meebo rulz haha
August 9th, 2006 at 1:34 am
hey guys i really lie kteh widget! i put it on myspace great idea i love it i put it up the first day i came out
September 1st, 2006 at 2:48 am
hello seth how r u? hope fine i read about u n i got very much impressed so i would like like to offer u my friendship plz accept n don’t ignore .,., i don’t want o give any comment just want to say u r so cute plz reply me on my mail id pankaj_goyal60@rediffmail.com ok waiting for u .,.,., let me introduce myself .,.,./,. im pankaj doing enggineering im indian of 20 years old ok i like to make new friends i will tell u more about me later on ok waiting for ur mail bbye take care bbye
September 6th, 2006 at 8:51 am
Sandy….
I love you…..
Beautiful AND smart…… wow
September 21st, 2006 at 1:36 am
Its a good idea to keep us engagging with every one whom we knows.:)
May 8th, 2007 at 4:36 am
my opinion is same like yours
June 5th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
hello
my friend
i’m geneveve
January 16th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
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