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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.
The "cloud" really replaced "desktop computing"... And by cloud i mean Google and desktop Microsoft. But you knew that.
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Speaking of google, when the hell are they going to release a GChat app for iOS? The GMail web page on iOS doesn't have GChat, so I went searching for an app on the Apple App Store a while back and found one. I'm pretty sure it was just a UIWebView wrapper which sent a different user-agent to fetch the desktop version of GChat, and it wasn't long before it broke (I think google had changed the GChat URL).
it's just xmpp, just download an iOS XMPP client and you're all set. Same with FB chat.
Oh, come on. Fuck this. Can we ever trust a service to keep running for even a third of our lifetime?
You're not serious, are you? What's the average lifetime of a company - 10 years? And since the pace of change keeps accelerating, that means the average life keeps getting shorter (used to be 15 years, etc).
I can't count on my fingers the number of services I considered adopting (and vouching for) that were shot down mid-flight in the past year and half. It's getting to hard to trust any business for more than short-term commitment, not just unproven ones.
What is with all the hate? Meebo tried, tried again, they failed, so they exited. 1. Meebo Messenger was great, but was not pulling in nearly enough revenue 2. Meebo tried to pivot to an advertising bar for more revenue with no luck Understand that Google probably didn't buy Meebo with the intent of shutting its services. Meebo was most likely already failing (hence the 70MM overall raise and 100MM exit), and would h…
Indeed. The Meebo Product/Eng team by all accounts was excellent. Same for the exec team. At the end of the day they were bitten by the same things Yahoo Messenger and MSN Messenger figured out a long time ago. Monetizing IM is hard. But at least they had the gumption to "go for it". Respect.
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Huh, so if Meebo is already "dead" why did Google buy Meebo? Google bought Meebo last week! Surely the conclusion from this is that Google bought Meebo FOR the Meebo bar, not that the Meebo bar has failed. The Meebo bar product is the one they're continuing!
Google bought Meebo for the team, not the product.
I guess the 'dont be evil' phase of google is long past huh.
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Huh, so if Meebo is already "dead" why did Google buy Meebo? Google bought Meebo last week! Surely the conclusion from this is that Google bought Meebo FOR the Meebo bar, not that the Meebo bar has failed. The Meebo bar product is the one they're continuing!
Google has a precedent of buying up startups that "discover" and conquer a new piece of mainstream media web sites. They bought Feedburner way back in 2007 because they'd come to own RSS feeds at almost all the major publishers. Now they're buying Meebo because that will let them own the toolbar across the bottom of lots of major publishers...where they will certainly start surfacing Google + bullcrap that no one wan…
They are now. A random website with the Meebo bar: http://www.gossipcop.com/tim-poe-americas-got-talent-stutter...
Sorry 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,…
With the penetration of smartphones, I bet that that's become a better alternative than web IM for most people.
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+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).
Let's not kid ourselves, browser based instant messaging across different protocols is not that interesting anymore. Facebook, What's App and iMessages won. This will free up this capable team to work on something more current.
I kind of don't get it. Why do big companies buy other successful companies just to shut it down? Can't they just rebrand it or something? If they can't why even buy? Just for acquiring the technical talent?
Using Meebo's code base to make their own application might have been preferable to rebranding it in this case.