Google should definitely buy ICQ next.
Google buys Meebo
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Re: Google buys Meebo
#102One thing no outlet has reported is that everyone except business development and select engineers were laid off as a result of the deal. This all comes from someone who left Meebo recently and is still close with people that work there. Not sure exactly how many, but it sounds like it was a good number. Note: I said it was the majority, that's what my friend made it sound like, but I'm not sure.. will update once I…
That sounds pretty bad if true. Is there a point of working for a startup if there's no financial upside, only the downside? Not being in the US, I'm curious if people getting laid-off from funded startups get severance packages.
I contracted for these guys, I bailed out of their full-time offer to follow my contract for a reason.
Re: Google buys Meebo
#103My first full-time job offer as I was wrapping up college in 2007 was from Meebo. At the time, they were about 12 employees. I didn't realize it at the time, as it was my first time going through the interview/offer dance, but having much more experience with these things now (from both sides of the process), I can honestly say it ranks as the best I've ever heard of. a) The technical portion of the interview was the…
what offer did you think was more attractive than what they offered?
Re: Google buys Meebo
#104If they are like a company I used to work for Meebo probably has a patent that reads as follows:
System and message for sending a message using a computer system
Re: Google buys Meebo
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have never seen that before - maybe my brain just tunes it out.
Adblock usually blocks it, for what that's worth.
Ghostery blocks it too.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does the toolbar even allow chatting with site staff like Olark? (seemingly no) whilst a useful thing to do right now: Olark is also expensive.
17 bucks a month is expensive? I find olark to be inexpensive and effective. No I am not an employee, just a happy customer.
$44 per month for more than 1 operator, which you'll need unless you sleep next to your PC.
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think that's true. They had a lot of people using their messenger client. More to do with mistakes and execution. Why did they take $70m in funding? That's a ridiculous amount of investment to take. Why couldn't they monetize that amount of eyeballs?
it's very difficult to monetize eyeballs without intent. If you're going to do that, you'd better do what fb did, and generate a fuckton [1] of pageviews. [1] Definition: lots and lots -- 1T / month in summer 2011 [2] [2] http://mashable.com/2011/08/24/facebook-1-trillion-pageviews...
Depends. It's easy to make a comfortable amount of money even without intent, but the problem comes when you have massive outgoings (office, staff, etc), and tons of investment, where making a good amount of revenue isn't good enough.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure if I'm adding meebocdn.com to my blacklist correctly. But I was able to block Slate's toolbar through the AdBlock interface...
I believe using the ghostery extension automatically blocks it as well. edit for links: link for Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mlomiejdfkolichcfl... ? link for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ghostery/
You forgot the link for Opera: https://addons.opera.com/en-gb/extensions/details/ghostery/
Re: Google buys Meebo
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Off topic, but what is underground assassins? Google is not helping.
I'm guessing - and I could be wrong - but based on the fact that its a real world thing - its likely the game where you get a bunch of people to play at hunting/assassinating each other as they go about their daily life. The objective is to tag enemy players and become the last player standing.
I've played assassins before, which I think is what you're describing. I'm wondering if Underground Assassins is a variation on the game, or just a different name.
Re: Google buys Meebo
#110I met the Meebo team at SXSW in 2008 and, being the uppity entrepreneur, I asked if I could stay in touch with them... Even though they were super busy, Seth would take a call over the phone when my startup was about to get acquired or when we were trying as hard as we could to raise money in late 2008. When I was playing a game of Underground Assassins in 2011, nobody knew my name. So they went by my t-shirt's logo…
Off topic, but what is underground assassins? Google is not helping.
Sorry, typed in haste. Undercover Assassins, see this: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/12/...