Hi everyone,
meebo is finally out! Our AJAX IM client is hopefully something you’ll find fun and useful.
We’ve been working really hard to get the alpha out to everyone. We’ve been staying up late furiously fixing bugs and tweaking things — we hope you like what you see (and use!).
We’re compatible with AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, and MSN and we’re pretty well tested on IE and Firefox. We’re mainly a Windows and Linux bunch, so we don’t have a lot of Mac access… If anyone wants to help out, shoot us an email 
We were a bit surprised when we heard about another AJAX IM client through the blogs but we’ve got a different take on it. Check meebo out and let us know what you think at the forum. We’ve only got one server up so be gentle…
cheers!
sandy and elaine
September 14th, 2005 at 3:49 am
Cool product, ever considered to release the serverside source too ?
September 14th, 2005 at 8:08 pm
Hey guys! Congratulations! I just tested it on Safari and it seems to work at a basic level! This is going to be very useful when travelling or at the airport.
If you want a Mac loaner, lemme know, I’ll be glad to hook you up. We have a store in Palo Alto.
September 14th, 2005 at 8:16 pm
Meebo
This might not be much of a problem for you all, but for me whenever I am not at home, such as at my Dad’s or at school, it’s hard to keep up to date with my friends on AIM. There is now a good solution for this. I first saw an online AJAX…
September 14th, 2005 at 8:19 pm
Very cool.
September 14th, 2005 at 11:44 pm
Guys, Great job. However, I would appreciate it if you added a privacy statement on the site somewhere.
September 15th, 2005 at 12:15 am
I didn’t try your alpha because it worries me that my username and password are getting logged (even if inadvertantly) somewhere. Although there a lot of people out there that don’t know any better (evidenced by the success of phishing scams), I’m sure that a lot of potential customers out there aren’t going to be willing to enter their username and password on a third party site.
I might in theory trust (say) Vanguard with my passwords since I already trust them with my money. But it doesn’t go much beyond that.
I’m still planning to create a new account to test your product out though, since I made a javascript chat recently, from which I was referred to your site.
September 15th, 2005 at 1:10 am
I’m just waiting for it being Free Software and for Jabber support too…
September 15th, 2005 at 3:33 am
meebo
meebo: cliente de mensajería instantánea (IM) a través de web y basado en AJAX. Es compatible con AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN y están trabajando para que dentro de poco se pueda usar también con Jabber. Dicen que lo han probados en IE y Firefox y funcio…
September 15th, 2005 at 11:15 am
Meebo is great! I have a 5 hour wait between classes once a week, I thought that that would be a great time to arrange appointments or work out details with models or other photorgaphers. Sadly, however, my school blocks the use of IM’s. Meebo is the answer to my prayers! Thanks for keeping my productive!
September 15th, 2005 at 12:50 pm
When will other features be integrated… like… sign in invisible mode on Yahoo and etc.
September 15th, 2005 at 4:06 pm
Invisible mode signin would be wonderful, and if you had the capacity to have a user account so we could all signup and auto login in one click.
September 15th, 2005 at 9:04 pm
keep it feature-light to preserve speed and clean look, have it perform core functions well, and add features slowly. oh, and get bought by google, not microsoft
September 16th, 2005 at 6:24 pm
Hey Abbi – We’d love to grab a Mac loaner if you could spare one. Would def like to get full functionality on Safari if we can. Can you shoot an email to comments@meebo.com with your contact details?
Thanks!
Seth
September 19th, 2005 at 7:48 am
Hey guys,
Love what you did with UI: Very User friendly, simple and clean design. I hope you do not add too many features that would clutter up the interface. It would be nice as they said if you had some way of knowing for sure that there is no physical or logical storage of passwords on ure servers
.
But cheers, and Best of luck on your venture !!
Thanks,
J
September 19th, 2005 at 11:05 am
Very nice work !
What is your objective ? Are you planning meebo as a business ?
In that case, I am interesting in having some details…for Business Garden.
Thanks,
Ronan / Business Garden
September 19th, 2005 at 4:33 pm
“Thanks” to have deleted my previous comment…
But why ?
Because I find your site and service great ?
or because I asked is you are planning a business with Meebo ?
Ronan
September 19th, 2005 at 11:24 pm
Hey Ronan -
Sorry that your initial posting didn’t get up immediately. We have the software set to allow all posts to go straight to the forum, but apparently because you had multiple links in your posting, the software flagged it as potential spam. We’re definitely not censoring anyone, rest assured.
As to your question on meebo as a business:
Our top goal is to create a really useful IM client for people. We’re still working hard at that. meebo isn’t yet nearly as feature rich as we’d like it to be, so we’re listening to everyone in the forum and on the blog to figure out which features to add. However, we’ve also got some ideas on how we could turn meebo into a business once it’s truly full featured and highly useful. The ideas range from allowing third parties to integrate meebo into their webware / web content (a request we’ve seen a lot of through email) to charging for a premium version of meebo to ads (though very likely not contextual ads as we don’t want to make people uncomfortable!). The net is we’re not sure exactly how we’re going to turn meebo into a business, particularly while we focus on building the core product, but we’ll likely take the path most requested by users.
Seth
September 20th, 2005 at 2:41 am
Thanks for the reply, and sorry for my early reaction
I am interesing in the evolution of your service into a business and will check regularly your blog.
I also created a Topic in the forum meebo business ideas
Ronan / Business Garden
September 26th, 2005 at 8:47 pm
Hey i just wanted to say meebo is great ,im in the army and im in iraq right now.We cant download yahoo messenger or connect to it if we already have it which sucks because it really comes in handy to keep in contact with my family,but meebo works like a charm ,thanks
justin
September 27th, 2005 at 6:09 pm
Hey Justin….so very glad to hear that meebo helps you stay in touch with family back home. Good luck, and stay safe!
October 20th, 2005 at 8:48 pm
Thanks for creating such a great site! I’ve just joined this today and will definitely be coming back very often!!!
October 30th, 2005 at 7:09 pm
Great site, even better at my school– which they recently blocked all ways to get to this site. If there is another way to get to Meebo please tell me, thatd be awesome. Thanks in advance!
November 3rd, 2005 at 12:38 am
Cool Site, with simple and good interface
I love it
November 3rd, 2005 at 6:31 pm
This is very nice.
Is there anyway you can release the clien-server software for use on thrid party sites?
Thanks
November 4th, 2005 at 7:26 am
Meus parabéns, pelo belo trabalho que vocês fizeram em desenvolver esse aplicativo Meebo.
Grande abraço a todos vocês!!
Parabéns!
November 10th, 2005 at 3:31 am
Hey this is a wonderful product……i am impressed especially by the speed….
I was in search of a software just like this…..
Kudos again and keep up the good work..
Can you please tell me where to access the source code…
Thank you…:-)
November 14th, 2005 at 9:49 am
I really like meebo alot
i use it for AIM during school, but i cannot acess my ICQ acount
can you help me out
my email is
majkabeard@gmail.com
November 15th, 2005 at 3:28 am
meboo: webbasierter multiprotokoll Messenger
Wer einmal Programme wie Miranda, Trillian oder Gaim benutzt hat wird kaum freiwillig wieder auf die “Orginalprogramme” der Protokollanbieter zurückgreifen wollen: die Integration verschiedener Dienste in ein Programm ist einfach das Kil…
November 17th, 2005 at 2:04 am
thanks to you 3 developer…… you make our connection more easier
November 20th, 2005 at 2:45 pm
Grate !!
I like it (and like’s the grate implement of ajax…)
November 22nd, 2005 at 3:50 am
in case if meebo is blocked by IT dept …is there any other way we can access the same ???
thanks
dave
November 23rd, 2005 at 1:22 am
Hi,
This tool found to be a great alternative for me to be in touch with my friends when i am even in Office. Thanks a lot. Expecting more from ur team. Keep it up!
Regards,
Haresh
December 3rd, 2005 at 8:18 am
very impressive… can this be integrated via some website?
cheers!
Anuj
December 6th, 2005 at 6:57 am
I would like to try, but u know, I have to provide my username and password. But I still have to say that u guys do an excellent job.
I like AJAX, and also know that it will bring out a lot of brilliant products.
Thank all of u for giving such a wonderful site.
December 11th, 2005 at 11:26 am
vry nice site……… bt how did u manage 2 access yahoo database……. its really a mystery…..
December 19th, 2005 at 7:22 am
Very cool! Many thanks for this great site.
As a web site developer, I am SO curious to see the source for this. Any plans for open source? or just an overview of the technology used?
Thank again and good luck!
December 21st, 2005 at 3:44 am
Hi folks,
Its pleasure to say that enjoying a lot using this site and makes all happy.
December 25th, 2005 at 1:56 am
This site is really cool.
Great job Done here.
This space is too small to say anything about this site.
Luv u guys………
Thank again and good luck!
January 2nd, 2006 at 11:32 am
the application is cool… lets me use IM’s easily whenever i am on travel. thanks guys.
cheers!
Anuj
http://www.dimensionicad.com
January 3rd, 2006 at 2:03 pm
[...] Şifrelerinizin 1024-bitlik RSA anahtarı ile şifrelendiği ve güvenilir olduğu aşikar bu sistem ile, aynı anda istediğiniz kadar messenger açabilirsiniz. Ajax kullanılarak kodlanmış bu uygulama, teknolojisi gereği çok pratik. AIM ya da ICQ, Jabber ya da GTalk, Yahoo! Messenger ya da MSN… Ne kadar IM client (Anında mesajlaşma) yazılımı varsa hepsini destekliyor nerdeyse. Desteklenesi ve takdir edilesi bir uygulama olduğu için, öneriyoruz efendim. [...]
January 13th, 2006 at 11:21 am
hi,
i want to know client side source code in meebo IM
tailor
January 20th, 2006 at 4:55 am
hello!
i have a problem with using meebo becous all of meebo addresses http://www.meebo.com ,www.18.meebo.com are blocked in my school since some days..do you know any way to get ride of that proxi ?
thanx
January 20th, 2006 at 10:00 am
its a great application. please let me know is there a way that we can customise it to be an enterprise application. idea being that all IM’s done should get logged into the corporate account.
thanks!
http://www.dimensioni.net
January 20th, 2006 at 6:31 pm
Great site, and great application.
January 21st, 2006 at 11:09 pm
[...] Posted by Michael Arrington Company: Meebo Launched: Today, September 14, 2005 (Public Alpha) Location: Palo Alto, CA [...]
January 31st, 2006 at 1:35 pm
im web developer and y play with Ajax too
congratulations, nice job
PD: Sorry my stupid and bad english
January 31st, 2006 at 8:13 pm
This site is very useful especially for those who cannot use YM because of a firewall in their office. hehehehe
February 1st, 2006 at 9:37 am
Awesome work of ajax. Do u have any plans of making it Opensource. Would you like to share some concepts and methodologies you ahve implemented in making this application.
February 3rd, 2006 at 12:37 pm
You have singlehandedly resurrected my social life from the purgatory to which it was relegated by the evil (and paranoid) firewall masters. Many many MANY thanks!
February 8th, 2006 at 11:42 pm
Hey guys,
I come from china mainland, i logon meebo very fast! it’s batter than webmessenger.msn.com!!
i using Fedora Core 5 Test 2+ Firefox 1.5.0.1, meebo work very well!!
Love what you did with UI: Very User friendly, simple and clean design.
Thanks,
rock
February 9th, 2006 at 12:49 am
hey,
you have provided with different messenger list but haven’t provided rediff messenger which is also very famous.
February 27th, 2006 at 8:16 am
Very useful blog. Thank you.
http://www.semeistvoto.com
February 27th, 2006 at 9:59 pm
hi!
meebo is great!!!with the friendly interface i just discovered meebo
because of the restrictions in office to log in to yahoo.this solved everythgin and made my life easy.so graetful to meebo and the group.
it’s gteat if you could inset the emicons feature too,but for now its awsme.
keep it up meebo!
March 7th, 2006 at 5:48 am
meebo is great!!
everyone puts so much work into it all, you deserve all the praise you get !!!
good luck for the future
March 17th, 2006 at 12:46 am
I am going to add this with my web site for more permotion of this. nice very nice project. incredible project for start of new kind of web on net i am willing to do work with you with all my team
March 24th, 2006 at 11:26 am
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March 31st, 2006 at 10:27 am
Meebo is brilliant. As a programmer and designer, I can honestly admit to work well done. There are however alot of skeptics and worried users who think their aim or other login info will be compromised by your service. To all those users, you have to realize that Meebo “HAS” to store your login infos, how else can it auto-login your accounts all at once. But realize, they encrypt it in their database beyond decyphering by those who don’t have Meebo’s “keys”. So on the SLIM chance that our login info is compromised from Meebo’s database server, it will be in an encrypted form… there’s no way for anyone to get your password in “plain text” since the encryption/decryption takes place on their servers which are firewalled and secure… they wouldn’t risk their entire Project by even risking letting our accounts get compromised… Think of it like an loan agency having access to your credit score and social security number and bank account info… you have to trust them… I trust Meebo more than that. Honestly, Meebo is actually MORE secure than your AIM client… why? 80% of computers have spyware installed on their computer… You most likely… Most of these spyware applications steal passwords.. AIM passwords are stored in the registry and are EASILY decyphered… I’ve done it myself… Meebo’s passwords are encrypted and stored on a firewalled database server with “more than nessacary” encryption, 1024bit is beyond any supercomputer’s reach anytime soom… you really have nothing to worry about… But that’s from me, i could list all my credentials but that’s silly. Anyway, thanks Meebo. You’re making life alot easier. ™
March 31st, 2006 at 10:40 am
I forgot to mention, when you login to your aim,msn,etc accounts from the main page and not your Meebo account, your password isn’t stored. If you click “save” checkbox, it stores your password into a Cookie locally on your computer so if your scared to store your passwords on Meebos servers, use that instead.
April 1st, 2006 at 2:26 am
really great.
very good site
April 1st, 2006 at 2:27 am
vey good site
April 2nd, 2006 at 8:20 am
Keep it up
April 2nd, 2006 at 8:25 am
Very helpful for offshore web development companies. ease of communication.
April 5th, 2006 at 8:28 pm
Nice. But I have some serious concerns about using this service. In your Terms of Service you say you are not affiliated or endorsed by yahoo,AOL,google, microsoft or jabber, my question is then without their blessings how will you stop them from blocking you guys from their servers ?
I would somewhat presume from a corporate culture perspective that perhaps google,yahoo and jabber may not block you but I am skeptical about AOL and microsoft especially since they tend to be “propreitary” and “less tolerant” of acess from clients that are not branded from them.
Can you post some clarifications on your site about how this is being handled ?
Without a clear written clarification this wonderful tool might end up being just another internet “cool hack” application that died its natural death. THe internet community is getting smarter and your users may not want to pledge their loyalty with this site without any indication of what your long term strategy is in dealing with the “big kahunas” who control backend. I know I dont have the time and energy to participate in a new cool thing and find that its been killed by a court order or made to disappear into oblivion by a large corporate interest.
Dont get me wrong, I am not trying to dampen the product or downplay its potential just that you have to clearly indicate what the story is on the service guarantee else you will be just another blip on the radar crashing before a take off ..
Congratulations again on a wonderful product.
April 7th, 2006 at 1:52 pm
Great article. I am just sad I dont know how to reply properly, though, since I want to show my appreciation like many other.
April 11th, 2006 at 7:59 am
It really Good everybody is geting the friends in touch useing this meebo its really intresting and fun More and more thanks to this Site………..
April 11th, 2006 at 7:59 am
i love this Lots and ever
April 11th, 2006 at 8:41 am
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April 20th, 2006 at 12:29 pm
I’m sending your website URL out to all my friends and colleagues around the world. Very cool software. I’m hoping usage spreads quickly and your business and technical details get worked out.
May 10th, 2006 at 1:51 am
At work, I have been using this product, I like!
May 20th, 2006 at 2:26 am
Nice site dudes! And the app itself is brilliant, I love how you can use AIM AND MSN at ONCE!
May 20th, 2006 at 2:27 am
COOL!
May 22nd, 2006 at 5:03 am
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June 8th, 2006 at 2:33 pm
Meebo is really awesome…
June 17th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
Meebo > *
June 20th, 2006 at 10:48 am
this is really very nice
June 20th, 2006 at 10:49 am
hai this is relly very interesting
June 23rd, 2006 at 1:04 am
Would like to use it
June 23rd, 2006 at 1:05 am
let me in
June 23rd, 2006 at 1:08 am
it is imp for me to log in
June 25th, 2006 at 8:20 pm
Great Job Guys !!!!
September 10th, 2006 at 1:33 pm
[...] The young team (first-time entrepreneurs) – two IT girls from Stanford and one boy, who was with IBM and is a Yale graduate – only started with meebo 13 weeks ago and did manage to attrack major attention right from the start. With over 250,000 users daily using the in Ajax programmed application in order to chat over one or multiple IMs (MSN, AIM/ICQ, Jabber/GTalk and Yahoo! Messenger) simultaneously meebo is still in “alpha mode”. All in all, quite ambitious plans Sequoia has with them in order to judge this high valuation. Will be interesting to see how their business model evolves. [...]
September 11th, 2006 at 4:45 am
thanx
September 11th, 2006 at 8:34 am
Happy Birthday (in a few days time)
Great service
September 11th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
Very very Exelent i just wanted to say meebo is great ,im in the army and im in iraq right now.We cant download yahoo messenger or connect to it if we already have it which sucks because it really comes in handy to keep in contact with my family,but meebo works like a charm ,thanks.
justin Good luck,Thanks for creating such a great site!
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September 11th, 2006 at 11:52 pm
must raho dosto,bcoz future come after every moment
September 11th, 2006 at 11:56 pm
याद आये तो आखे बन्द न करना. हम चले भी जाये तो गम न करना. यह जरुरी नही की हर रिश्ते का कोई नाम हो. पर दोस्ती का एहसास कभी दिल से जुदा न करना
September 12th, 2006 at 12:04 am
याद आये तो आखे बन्द न करना. हम चले भी जाये तो गम न करना. यह जरुरी नही की हर रिश्ते का कोई नाम हो. पर दोस्ती का एहसास कभी दिल से जुदा न करना good luck
October 18th, 2006 at 1:35 am
Its good to be here in a new website! I hope will get lots of fans and exitement! Eh!
October 24th, 2006 at 5:19 am
no matter
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December 6th, 2006 at 3:14 am
hi,
This is really a cool thing that make me cool when ‘m being bored at my office….
It dosent create any log that make creates full advantage over myself…
i cant use messenger for that i go for this…
Total fun in MEEBO..
‘m using it for the past 5 months and its good in all the way… THEMES and everything….
Carry on …
December 30th, 2006 at 10:52 am
great! keep it up.
December 30th, 2006 at 10:54 am
this site will be very popular!
January 11th, 2007 at 5:11 am
hai
May 12th, 2007 at 11:14 am
I am scarredangel I have a support group for adults who were abused as children.
I am trying to set up my live chat on meebo and I can’t figure out how to set it up. Can you tell me how?
August 16th, 2007 at 1:35 am
why do people abuse childen about wat they do partnents get mad cusz childen have meebo there is nothing bad about meebo
and why do they
i say
September 19th, 2007 at 10:39 am
Happy (Late) Birthday, meebo!
September 27th, 2007 at 2:14 am
A belated happy birthday 2 u-meebo. You are doing a great job connecting users from absolutely anywhere…!!!!
March 16th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Hie
May 10th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
So where do I get to see this new IM AJAX client? Is there link somewhere?
May 10th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
This really got to be good as there is already so much competition in the IM market.
September 9th, 2008 at 7:20 am
very nice…im really really interested on the draggable window on meebo…i know its AJAX in action, if you mind, share me a little on how you do that (create a well skinned and draggable window)..meebo programmers..
November 10th, 2008 at 4:18 am
meebo is great!!
everyone puts so much work into it all, you deserve all the praise you get !!!
good luck for the future
January 27th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
Meebo im can help small website owners to integrate with their website which results in instant messeging with their clients. Hope you people come with newer product specially with apple extentions.
February 8th, 2009 at 2:46 am
I will download Meebo now and see if it is fun to use. Thanks.
July 27th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
Great job. However, I would appreciate it if you added a privacy statement on the site somewhere.
November 18th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Hi, I am not sure how to add your site in my news reader in outlook. Can you Help me, please
Thx you rock!