Social platform Meebo is shutting down the majority of its applications – just one week after announcing it is to be acquired by Google.
The only survivor of the cull is the Meebo bar – a chat widget that allows users of a particular site to chat. Meebo has promised the bar will continue to be available to site publishers ahead of “continued improvements and new features in the weeks and months ahead.”
The rest of Meebo’s services will cease to exist from 11 July and instructions on how to delete accounts or download information have been supplied.
All of Meebo’s mobile apps, including iPhone, Android and BlackBerry, will cease to work, but again chat logs can be downloaded until 11 July. Any user wishing to delete their account immediately can do so by visiting Meebo.
Meebo was founded in 2005 as a cross-platform instant messaging service and introduced the Meebo bar, which enabled people on the same site to chat to each other.
Google acquired Meebo last week, along with QuickOffice, and announced that it intended to integrate Meebo into its Google+ social network in an effort to combat rival Facebook
“Together with Google, we’re super jazzed to roll up our sleeves and get cracking on even bigger and better ways to help users and website owners alike,” said Meebo when announcing the takeover. ““We’ve had a blast building Meebo so far and we’re really excited to start the next leg of our journey.”
Google+ has struggled since its launch last year, but recently announced that it had 170 million users, although this figure has been disputed by critics who believe it is inflated.
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Well, Meebo chat rooms was a great tool.
Strangely, Meebo shut it down a while ago, but left with their toolbar which i like less.
Now, many meebo users needed to find replacements.
As not a lot was made in this arena in the past years, most of the chats out there are flash based which has issues with mobile and tablets. To solve the mobile issue people tend to look for HTML5 chats. But there are not many of those out there. Conclusions: The meebo substituted as i see it are RumbleTalk (service) or 123slashchat (download).
I think google made a good choice as meebo has great potential within Google+ .