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OK, so what the heck is meebo anyway? An AJAX-powered multi-instant messaging service client. What’s the business model?

Well, I guess it starts with VC funding from Sequoia to the tune of $9 million or so. From there, it looks like some bitchin’ parties and decent paychecks, to be followed by unemployment. Google rolled their own web client for GTalk based on AJAX last week as part of their “screw ‘em if we can do it ourselves” business model.

Maybe Meebo can sell to some phone company if they figure out how to get AJAX to run well on mobile browsers (and that latency thing)…

~ by Sean Gallagher on February 15, 2006.