meebo lovesmo youbo

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)…

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Published:: 2.15.06 / 8pm

Category:: AJAX, Venture Capital

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tasha 5.26.06 / 3am

WHT IS THE URL FOR MEEBO?
BUT NOT MEEBO,COM?

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Once upon a time, there was a dot-communism, the heady philosophy of the first Internet boom that contended that any business model was good as long as it involved doing it first and doing it on the web.

Of course, the bubble burst. And a host of folks who had predicted the flaming demise of so many dot-commers lost a hobby by being right. Crap.

Then, along came “Web 2.0″. TechCrunch is Web 2.0’s official cheering section. People are throwing money at little startups again. Stoopid money. “Convergence” is being used freely in conversations again. Google has replaced AOL atop the pyramid of hypercapitalized Internet plays. Anybody with a hairbrained scheme, some JavaScript code and a web server can become a millionaire again.

Release the nay-sayers!

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