meebo

From 4 June 2012: Google Inc.

Meebo was based on Pidgin instant messaging client-side application based on Ajax and led accounts of AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, XMPP, and MySpaceIM Google Talk together on one page in the messenger style.

History

Meebo was founded by three young entrepreneurs, launched on 4 September 2005 on the private use and made ​​available to the public on 14 September 2005. On 16 December 2005 it was confirmed that meebo funding from Sequoia Capital received. On June 4, 2012 meebo was acquired by Google Inc.. In preparation for the official sale before 90 % of the employees of the New York offices were directly discharged (number of employees approximately 200 employees in mid-2011 ). The acquisition was July 11, 2012, all services up to the Meebo Bar, a browser add-on set. End of April 2013 it was announced by Google and on the Meebo website that on June 6, 2013, the Meebo Bar also the last remaining Meebo product will be set. About 20 of 200 formerly Meebo employees switched to Google to participate in the development of Google services.

Features

Through disclosure of the access could be handled via the meebo page of the traffic of multiple services. meebo supported the ability to log on to a server invisibly and with multiple services to get in touch.

Meebo had built an extension on 16 February 2006, which made it possible to create meebo accounts. This allowed the user with a single sign- on can start to use multiple instant messaging services. Since May 4, 2006 meebo had the ability to retrieve message history for meebo accounts. This meebo had this feature built shortly after Google.

On 19 March 2006, meebo extended to transmit and receive signal sounds, and the ability to send messages to users who do not appear in the contact list. meebo made ​​it possible to use even without downloading and installing messenger programs such services, which could be accessed easily on contact lists and message history.

Some companies and school firewalls prevented access to meebo for staff and students. Therefore meebo had published on 19 May 2006 the meebo repeater, a program that allowed users to set up their own proxy on a Windows PC to use meebo still can.

Since September 10, 2007, there were an additional function: it was the possibility of file transfers offered. Since then, it has been possible for registered meebo users to send files to others. The file has been uploaded to the meebo server. However, the receiver did not require a meebo account, he received only an Internet address where he could download the file.

Since 18 October 2007, a Firefox extension was also available, which integrated a sidebar, which represented the contacts and their status.

Beginning of 2009, published a beta version of meebo meebo notifier, a program that signed up at the request automatically when the operating system starts with a meebo id. Once a message arrived, the program showed a pop up from the taskbar preview the message and opened the meebo page by clicking on the system tray icon.

Meebo offered the opportunity to log on using Jabber for registered users. Login name was [email protected]. In the contact list, but only for the meebo account related contacts were available, Transports were not offered.

Meebo on your smartphone

Since 6 November 2008 there was a meebo application for the Android operating system which, inter alia, on many HTC, Acer, Huawei, LG, Samsung and Motorola smartphones as well as on the Google Phone Nexus One was applied. The meebo application is the Google Play Store for free download.

On 15 February 2010 a meebo application for the Apple iPhone was released. You could use the 3.0 available from OS "Push Notification ", which make it permissible for new messages attentive, even though the application was not active.

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