Meebo.com is a pretty snazzy new multi-IM client (meaning, it works with AOL, Yahoo, MSN and ICQ) on the same system.
I really like the clean interface and the simplicity makes you think, bloatware really is out! (Well, I had to bear it when there weren’t other options). I for one, think it’s a good demonstration of the meta-technology now known as AJAX.
I like Trillian, I really do, but that still does not justify Trillian taking up about 14mb of system RAM at all times.
Also, with my other set of micro-utlities, like tinyurl.com, yousendit.com and pastebin.com, I am closer and closer to getting a simple touchscreen, running firefox on a light-weight version of linux (with scripts to load up the browser and all the required”web-apps” in different tabs for my parents.
Need to fix it? Restart. Crashed? Restart. Need to clear windows? Restart.
Hmm, all these years of tinkering with Pocket PC’s and their soft reset buttons definitely gets to you.
However, back to the topic, Meebo looks good, feels good and hopefully will be a solid long-term app.
[thnx to Digg]
17 Sep 2005 at 5:27 pm
Yes, this rocks!
28 Sep 2005 at 6:52 am
Brothah!! Do you check the footprint of da browsers when such stuff runs? I dont see people worrying about how much resources browsers hog
28 Sep 2005 at 8:55 am
Yeah, but you see, you are comparing the resource hog of, say, GoogleMaps vs. Google Earth or MS Mappoint or Y! Mail vs. Outlook/Notes.
Thats where the memory footprint does not matter.
If I can run everything, and have my browser take 50 megs of ram … thats better than Outlook taking 30 megs, Trillian taking 30 megs, etc, etc
22 Dec 2005 at 6:06 pm
I bet Meebo will fail! What is your bet?
But can Meebo meet the following success factors?
However, here are my questions and doubts for each of these:
> “If you are building a Web startup with the intention of flipping it
> to one of the majors, only three things matter;
> – technology/IP,
> – users
> – the quality of your technical team,”
1 what IP do they have? can someone just own an IP on something so simple? a
webbased IM is so easy to make…
2 users? how many real users do they have? people are addicted to MSN,
AIM, etc.
If meebo dies one day to another, how many people will actually look for a replacement of that one instead of going back to MSN?
3 technical team? 2 people? does that convince everyone…? It’s fine with me, I’ve seen many coders, but I am not sure that can convince easily
against the power of big groups.
> “If the company has market leadership in a new product space or market segment than the valuation goes up significantly,”
market leadership? talk to me more about it. What type of leadership do they have? They’re not replacing the IM, they don’t have the technology of the IM, they can be stopped anytime by a server that wouldn’t allow them to connect,
then can be sued anytime by people who don’t understand they’re sending their
password to meebo server… (it’s not written is it?)
5.how much of the market do they “own” really?
> “Meebo has essentially created a persistent connection/relationship
> with their users.”
who said that?
> “why go with a zero-revenue model that’s going to be sold for $50 million tops when you could pick a business model with the potential to generate some really, really serious cash?”
sure, it could generate cash. If it does, MSN, AIM, etc, have no difficuly in matching this offer, or to prevent meebo from making any money. Remember that meebo revenues depend on the good will of MSN AIM, etc who still haven’t
prevented meebo from connecting onto their server.
What is their plan B if MSN/AIM block all connections?
Thus, my bet that meebo cannot succeed!
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