Meebo Launches Community IM on Flixster

Last night Meebo announced that it rolled out the first live version of its Community IM service on Flixster, the movie social network. Back in July I wrote about Meebo’s new service and called it a “Userplane-like platform”. Ultimately it is very similar in that both Userplane and Meebo have ultimately launched a Facebook-like chat platform available for third-party sites. This one looks pretty cool as displayed in the video below.

When it comes to the social web, it’s pretty clear that Facebook has been leading the pack for the past year and a half. Even Yahoo! duplicated many of the features provided by the Facebook platform and Facebook Connect in their new services announced last night. This new chat platform also includes updates and notifications.

One of the cool features of this new service is that if you want to continue a conversation but don’t want to stay on the site you are at you can pop-out the conversation to another window on Meebo.com. I’m not quite sure how valuable this component actually is to be honest since you are still going to need at least one browser window open.

Either way, the trend toward new types of internal community chat platforms is an interesting one and over the past 6 to 12 months there have been some significant releases by the largest players. We will continue to follow the chat space as it evolves over the coming months.

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