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Bulls vs. Bears

Overall, are you bullish or bearish on Meebo?
vote bullish
73%
70 votes
vote bearish
27%
26 votes

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Do You Agree? The Bulls Say:
  • 01/16/2008

    dave

    IM is a killer application

  • 01/16/2008

    dave

    Meebo solves the problem of IM platform incompatibility

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    07/10/2008

    ryang

    It doesn't, it's just a fancy web based IM agreegator, one still needs to signup to many IM networks
  • 02/14/2008

    steve

    Yahoo just shelved their competing product myM

  • 05/06/2008

    john

    They just raised $25 MM

  • 05/08/2008

    hollyster

    valuation of $250 million!

  • 05/21/2008

    bobfet1

    setting up all of your IM accounts is a simple process

  • 05/25/2008

    eyoung

    They web traffic has been growing nicely

  • 06/09/2008

    john

    They just launched interactive ads, a path to revenue model

  • 06/26/2008

    blogger

    They announced 35M visitors/month, including 8M visitors to chat rooms on Facebook

  • 07/01/2008

    grantw

    developments and developments, theyre only getting better

  • 07/01/2008

    irpip

    file transfers, audio/video chat, group chats, theres no other web-based clients as powerful

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    07/01/2008

    fshnchps

    as a result of this, they have a strong and loyal userbase!
  • 07/09/2008

    yuxin9303

    collaboration with tokbox is a plus!

  • 07/24/2008

    mngofasho

    employees are happy because of good lunches on castro :)

  • 07/25/2008

    irpip

    development of a meebo desktop client that takes advantage of meebo rooms will be interesting

  • 08/05/2008

    rtran

    getting more and more popular; fast and easy to use; lots of new features everytime i use it

  • 08/10/2008

    ablanky

    statisfies the instant messenger addict

  • 08/15/2008

    cyclon

    No installation necessary and portable

  • 08/17/2008

    bbrunelle

    Should fit the bill for IM users

  • 08/18/2008

    irpip

    they have started to roll out a lot of advertising on their service

  • 09/30/2008

    carmenrebeca

    easy, everything in one place, perfect for college students who can't DL apps to public comps

  • 11/17/2008

    stocker

    pretty slick and convenient

  • 03/11/2009

    voipsipguru

    Very Sleek and continue to innovate

  • 10/08/2009

    aszx

    Love it!

Do You Agree? The Bears Say:
  • 02/14/2008

    steve

    It seems to be relatively easy to copy from a technology stand point

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    07/10/2008

    ryang

    e.g. check ebuddy.com
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    10/05/2008

    mkjones

    Online presence / realtime notification is not a trivial problem. Not intractable (obviously), but building a comparable system would take a while.
  • 08/15/2008

    bugmenot

    Nothing new except the web-design... web-based multi-protocol clients have been around for ages.

  • 08/15/2008

    dmac

    Tends to crash alot and messages do not go through all the time.

  • 01/19/2009

    kagnatr

    have entered series c funding and still strugling to get thru..!!

  • 05/25/2009

    effica

    Seth is not a leader; Biz model MUST evolve; investors will be lucky to get their money back!

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    09/25/2009

    effica

    1. done; 2. let's see if Carter, Martin, Stephanie could evolve the biz model (doubt that - it should take only 1 person!); 3. investors have ~1.8M less since my last comment! Still have time but...
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