Meebo History

Meebo was founded in 2005 by Sandy Jen, Seth Sternberg, and Elaine Wherry. It received funding from Sequoia Capital Series A (led by Roelof Botha) and Series B funds of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (led by Tim Draper). On November 3, 2006, Meebo XX was released.

hile this is in its initial stage, the project's success lies in combining the characteristics of Trillian or Gaim with the availability AIM Express. Meebo enables online in "invisible", and multiple messaging services. Meebo added feature of allowing the creation of user accounts meebo the February 16, 2006, which enables users to use a single login to connect to multiple services. As of May 4 of that year, also gives the possibility of storing the recording of conversations associated with a user account meebo. Users with login meebo also have the ability to rename contacts.

As of March 19, 2006, incorporated Meebo notification sound to send and receive messages, and the ability to send messages to contacts who are not in the contact list of the user.

On August 2, 2006, Meebo launched widget "meebo me," which allows users to embed a version of meebo in his personal website. Additionally, on October 11 of that year announced an alliance with Amie Street to include widget "meebo me" in each of your pages user.

Some companies and schools restrict the use of meebo students and employees through firewalls. In response to this, the May 19, 2006, meebo launched meebo repeater, a tool that allows users to configure their own proxies to access the service from a Windows PC. As a result, many schools and companies have blocked access this page, anyway most is not blocking traffic on port 443 (HTTPS), which uses the cryptographic protocol SSL / TSL, and as a result is still possible to connect to the service.

Meebo enables some people who sit behind firewall networks (networks that block different instant messengers but have not blocked the domain name meebo.com) connect to the instant messaging and the user just connects to port 443 (HTTPS) and the service meebo is that then connects to different messaging protocols.