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Roundtable: Decoding Taste Through Social Graphs

Devon Glenn — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:18:12 +0000

NEW YORK – Whether users are shopping, browsing, or talking about their interests online, the success of the social graph depends on how well companies can interpret the results and use them to predict behavior, said experts at the APPNATION NYC Mobile + TV 3.0 Summit in SoHo this afternoon.

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What Every Social Media Marketer Should Know About Meebo

Neil Glassman — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:15:51 +0000

By integrating social networks and communication channels into a single solution, Meebo presents users with the ability to discover and share in real time.

Using the platform to increase interaction with users and offer loyalty rewards, site publishers may benefit from Meebo’s social sharing with increased repeat visitors, engagement and revenue. Advertisers may take advantage of targeted, rich-media display ads.

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Learn from This: Cheetos Makes Goofing Off Pay Off

Neil Glassman — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:09:19 +0000

Game mechanics are a proven means for brands to initiate and maintain engagement with users. It’s become an essential social media strategy.

Using a newly available platform from Meebo, Cheetos snacks has launched a campaign, accented by its mischievous brand image, that adds discovery and social sharing to a game that’s played across the web, not on a specific social media platform.

Consumers compete in the Cheetos Billion Minute Break to become the greatest break-taker alive. Built on the Meebo Quest Platform, the campaign rewards participants for doing something they already enjoy — exploring the web — to increase awareness and engagement with a product that’s a perfect accompaniment for downtime.

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Envolve Steps on Meebo’s Toes With Real-time Chat Translation

Ellie Cachette — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:00:32 +0000

Predictions for the next wave of networks are that people will be spending less time on Facebook and more time on niche sites that are more custom to users needs and provide more relevance than generic news feeds. Envolve just launched a series of API plug-ins that will make it easier for existing networks and sites to implement a chat bar which is not a new concept. Companies like Meebo and Orgoo have been working on their growth the past year, with Meebo recently closing $25MM in funding l to help expand its reach. Chat bars are not new but social strategies are changings.

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Maxim Leverages Meebo Bar To Help Readers Share Photos of Women… and Whatever Else Is At Maxim

Neil Glassman — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:15:55 +0000

Next time a visitor to Maxim.com decides it’s time to belly up to the bar, it might be the Meebo Bar. The two companies announced that Maxim.com has joined the more than 7,000 sites currently running the Meebo Bar, providing its visitors with a way to discover, share, and chat about Maxim content with their friends through various social networks.
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Meebo Gives Teen Girls yet Another way to Socialize by Partnering with Seventeen.com

Lauren Dugan — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:35:38 +0000

As if they needed another excuse to tweet and text their favorite summer dresses or latest celebrity sightings, teen girls can now socialize on the website of the popular Seventeen Magazine. Meebo and Seventeen.com have announced a partnership to provide social functionality for visitors to Seventeen.com, a website aimed primarily at teen girls.

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Meebo's XAuth Attempts To Challenge Facebook Connect

Raj Dash — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:27:14 +0000

Facebook might be trying to take over the Web in order to provide users with more targeted ads, but if Meebo has their way, websites will use XAuth to authenticate user login instead of Facebook Connect — also possibly with the purpose of serving up ads. The advtange for Meebo is that not only would XAuth broaden the social media user base for login authentication, but they have some big names behind them, including Google.
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Meebo Ramps Up Ads with New Partner Network

Kristen Nicole — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:07:09 +0000

Meebo, the chat widget tool, had already launched its own ad network some time ago. Now the company is launching ads on its own partner network, with Toyota being the first marketer to advertise. With 85 publishers signed up for its partner network, Meebo is enabling brands to run ads on a larger scale directly through Meebo’s company, with the same results they’ve grown accustomed to on Meebo.com.

What’s this really mean? In Meebo’s long-standing effort to expand its own network, web presence and visibility, the integrated communication tool has launched several tools and gained several partners, many of which have teamed up with the company for marketing purposes. This is in part due to the fact that Meebo’s integrated communication tools enable brands to connect directly with consumers through multimedia brand messages, chat, and advertisements. On the consumer end, these communication tools provide great channels for product and brand discussion as well as valuable feedback that marketers can use in their larger data pools.
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Meebo Upgrades Chat, Makes Media-Sharing Easier Across the Social Web

Kristen Nicole — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:00:34 +0000

Meebo has made some major upgrades to one of its product services, the Meebo Bar. As a turnkey solution for integrating chat into a site where those site users can interact directly with each other, the Meebo bar enabled a community feel within any integrated destination site. The upgrade to this aspect of Meebo is the ability to pull all your chat buddies into your buddy list, regardless of which partner site you’re using to access Meebo. In short, any partner site with Meebo chat integration now supports all your chat buddies across the supported chat clients. As you may well know, these supported chat clients include AOL, Yahoo, Gchat, Facebook, and more.

The purpose of this particular upgrade is actually twofold; it not only brings a more comprehensive chat option to end users for seamless access to all their buddies, but it provides an easier and more direct way of sharing web content. To that end, another upgrade to Meebo is the sharing option, which allows users to share content from their current web page across chat, email, Facebook and Twitter. What we’re looking at here is a combining of direct media-sharing via chat with social web redistribution of content.
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Meebo Teams with myYearbook to Expand IM

Kristen Nicole — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:11:18 +0000

Meebo’s latest partnership is with myYearbook, the social networking site started by teenagers for fellow high schoolers. The partnership includes myYearbook using Meebo chat as a prominent feature on every page of its site, providing chat tools for Meebo users and guests alike.

The partnership should be a win-win for both Meebo and myYearbook, as instant messaging is a highly requested feature from myYearbook users. myYearbook is one of the largest networks dedicated to the high school age demographic. This specific user base is also quite active when it comes to online activity, making it a good fit for Meebo’s chat and media-sharing tools.
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Meebo Weds MySpace and Facebook, Sort Of

arnoldzafra — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 08:29:12 +0000

We know it’s the closest to the impossible thing to happen – the union of MySpace and Facebook as we all know that these two top social networks are nemesis for so long now. It would probably take a lot to make them work together, oh well at least Meebo wants to try as the official Meebo blog announced that Meebo now support IM sessions from MySpace and Facebook right smack into the Meebo IM client. continued…

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Universal Music Still Believes in Chat, Partners with Meebo

Kristen Nicole — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:27:13 +0000

Meebo, the online chat service that lets you log into all your instant messenger clients from a central location, has announced its agreement with Universal Music Group as its latest partner. This deal signifies a branding opportunity for both Meebo and UMG, as the music company will be able to distribute premium content through Meebo’s various services and enable users to share it with their friends from there.
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Interview With Seth Sternberg, CEO of Meebo

Nick O'Neill — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:00:14 +0000

Last night Meebo announced a slew of new partners for its white-label instant messaging service. The announcement also included statements that the company now has almost 73 million monthly users which is most definitely a bold statement. I took the opportunity to speak with Seth Sternberg, CEO of Meebo, about what these announcements mean for his company and what the future holds.

We discussed Meebo and potential integration with mobile platforms as well as how his product fits on the social web. Meebo offers a product which is nearly identical to Userplane and heavily resembles Facebook’s new chat client. I spoke with Seth about these similarities and what all of the recent chat services means for the future of chat on the web.

Check out our interview below to learn more about the future of Meebo and chat on the web!

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Meebo Gets More Partners

arnoldzafra — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:48:14 +0000

Instant Messaging and online communications client Meebo has some great news to spread. Hot on the heels of reaching around 72.9 million users, with around 26.2 million of which are US based, as reported by comScore, Meebo is also announcing that they have reached partnership agreement with more web-based services. continued…

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Userplane Announces More Partnerships Amidst Meebo Hype

Nick O'Neill — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:05:50 +0000

Today, Userplane has announced partnerships with three additional providers, Small Worlds Labs, Magnify and Pringo. Users of the new platforms leverage the power of Userplane’s chat and instant messaging applications. At this point it appears that there is a war of press releases going on in the social platform instant messaging space. While Userplane has been providing solutions to social networks for years, only last week did we learn that the new chat solutions are similar to Facebook chat, integrating directly with a social network’s user base and user connections.

Just last night Meebo announced that they too would be offering external web-based chat solutions to third-party websites. While the company already had a widget-based chatroom solution, the new offerings go head to head with Userplane. Will the company be able to take away clients from the company which previously faced little if no competition?

Not sure but given Meebo’s rapid growth over the past few years, there will definitely be new found tension between the two companies. Userplane was acquired by AOL back in 2006 and has since continued on an aggressive path, sparking partnerships with many third-party sites to embed their robust chat solution.

As I said last night, web-based chat solutions for social platforms has suddenly become an area to keep your eyes on.

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