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Meebo discontinued: shutting down on July 11, 2012
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Re: Meebo discontinued: shutting down on July 11, 2012
#32Sorry for the language, but WTF GOOGLE? Meebo has been around since forever (well, actually 2005) when it was only a web messenger and used by a LOT of people whenever you couldn't or wouldn't want to install a native messaging app, or messaging was blocked on your network. I actually know people that used Meebo exactly for that reason, no installation required and furthermore if you created yourself a Meebo account,…
+1. This is truly sad. One can only hope that the more Google kill, the more enterprenours will be unwilling to sell them their project (baby).
Re: Meebo discontinued: shutting down on July 11, 2012
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
The services that they're shutting down were all provided for free with no obvious source of significant revenue. If you were paying them and they were making a profit then you might have a better chance.
> The services that they're shutting down were all provided for free with no obvious source of significant revenue. You mean like GMail? You would have at least thought they could integrate the MSN/AIM/Yahoo messenger etc into GMail.
GMail does make some direct revenue for Google (ads and paid storage), but it was (and probably still is) their #1 method for onboarding users to the Google Accounts system. And that gets them access to pay for all sorts of Google products. GMail has been key in growing Google's active user base.
Re: Meebo discontinued: shutting down on July 11, 2012
#34Oh, come on. Fuck this. Can we ever trust a service to keep running for even a third of our lifetime?
The services that they're shutting down were all provided for free with no obvious source of significant revenue. If you were paying them and they were making a profit then you might have a better chance.
I haven't looked in to this particular instance, but in general...
why buy a company that has no significant revenue? It's not like it's some shock to google - "oh no, meebo doesn't make enough money!?"
So... yeah, the services were provided 'free' in some sense, but meebo was able to continue running before this. Just... yeah.. buy stuff, shut it down.
If it's not a significant source of revenue, it probably doesn't take a significant amount of cash to keep it running for another 6 months to a year.
EDIT: I should have added, I understand the logical reasoning behind buying a company for its assets/talent. Doesn't mean it's not annoying.
Re: Meebo discontinued: shutting down on July 11, 2012
#35Good, I've hated the meebo overlay since day 1.
Would you care to say why?
Re: Meebo discontinued: shutting down on July 11, 2012
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The services that they're shutting down were all provided for free with no obvious source of significant revenue. You mean like GMail? You would have at least thought they could integrate the MSN/AIM/Yahoo messenger etc into GMail.
AIM has been integrated in Gmail since 2007. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/gmail-chat-aim-crazy-d...
You can unfortunately no longer log into an AIM account in Gmail and have those contacts appear like in the blog post you linked to. They got rid of that feature a couple years ago.
Re: Meebo discontinued: shutting down on July 11, 2012
#37I guess the 'dont be evil' phase of google is long past huh.
You must be new here. But seriously this is a surprisingly fast phase out with no further announcement from the new owners Google. No publicly stated alternatives or transition plan.
Re: Meebo discontinued: shutting down on July 11, 2012
#38Now that Meebo found an exit, they ditch IM users who the acquiring company, Google, does not care either.
Nobody could be blamed. But perhaps one thing meebo could do is to coordinate with meebo messenger alternatives to help users to switch.
Personally I use imo.im. I hope it can stay long and focused. At least so far it has a very IM-focused name. :)
Re: Meebo discontinued: shutting down on July 11, 2012
#39Oh, come on. Fuck this. Can we ever trust a service to keep running for even a third of our lifetime?
You might find this entertaining - I'm watching a speech by Alan Kay at the moment where he says that computing is more pop-culture than science: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvmTSpJU-Xc
Re: Meebo discontinued: shutting down on July 11, 2012
#40Good, I've hated the meebo overlay since day 1.
Would you care to say why?
I don't like anything with a fixed position with sole purpose of sharing to social networks. Looks very desperate and blocks the precious vertical pixels. I don't mid fixed stuff on the side of the content, but an overlay you can't scroll off? an immediate turn off.