Meebo Platform
Meebo CEO and co-founder Seth Sternberg said, “If Google is a search site, and YouTube is a video site, and MySpace is where you leave messages for people, we want to be the site where people interact live.”
Meebo’s API is designed around adding collaborative applications on top of its instant messaging architecture, based on the open-source Jabber protocol. Initially launched as a Web-based method of accessing the major IM networks, Meebo added its own Jabber-based IM network to its browser-based client.
The Meebo Platform extends the Jabber protocol to allow for other types of data to be passed across the network by Meebo sessions, either within an AJAX browser or another client application that uses the API.
I’ve been using Meebo for a long time because I can access all my IM clients in the browser without having all the applications slowing down my computer. It seems like Meebo is becoming more feature rich and Facebook is becoming more “live”…
Will Meebo become a serious social network or will it somehow fuse into the Facebook/MySpace ecosystem?
