meebo Launches "meebo rooms, Partner Edition" to Connect People Live on Major Media and Entertainment Sites and Social Networks.Company collaborates with 20 music industry partners to power live community across the Web MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- meebo, a website for instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or (IM), today announced a partner-friendly version of recently-launched meebo rooms. meebo rooms are places where people can chat and view media live with IM buddies, both inside meebo.com and across the Web on their own sites. Since launching meebo rooms on May 15, over seventy-five thousand rooms have been created by meebo users and partners. meebo rooms, Partner Edition, adds extra functionality to meet the requirements of highly-trafficked and feature-rich sites. First to adopt this new functionality are the music industry communities of Amie Street Amie Street is an indie online music store and social network service created in 2006 by Brown University seniors Elliott Breece, Elias Roman, and Joshua Boltuch, in Providence, Rhode Island. They have since graduated and moved the company to Long Island City in Queens, New York. , BuddyLube, Capitol Records Capitol Records is a major United States-based record label, owned by EMI, located in Hollywood, California. Its headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine. , Columbia Records For the Columbia Records label which was a unit of EMI, see . For the Columbia Records label in Japan, see . Columbia Records is the oldest surviving brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888, and was the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as , Fearless Records Fearless Records is a punk rock-oriented record label that, according to their website, has been signing artists since 1994. They are based out of Westminster, California. , Flyer Records, Hollywood Records Hollywood Records is a record label owned by Disney. It mainly focuses on pop music. The label was started in 1989 and initially distributed by Elektra Records in the US and Canada until 1995 when distribution switched to PolyGram (which became Universal Music Group in 1998. , Island Def Jam Here is a list of artists signed to The Island Def Jam Music Group. 0-9
[ imp. & p. p. os> r>; p. pr. & vb. n. os> MIMS Medical Information Management System MIMS Multimedia Integrated Modeling System (US EPA) MIMS Membrane Introduction Mass Spectrometry , Mudvayne, Portugal the Man, Saosin, Straylight Run and T-Pain. Other artists' rooms will be built in the coming weeks. "At meebo, our mission is to connect people live across the Web," said Martin Green, VP of Business, meebo. "With the partner edition of rooms, sites can use meebo to build fan loyalty, increase their audience and grow their business." Chat is back VH1's WorldOfPop.com will go live with meebo rooms, Partner Edition, on July 9th to coincide with the debut of the channel's new season of the "2007 World Series of Pop Culture." At WorldOfPop.com, registered users can choose to join a meebo room while watching VH1 content (in between bouts of pop culture trivia and other grueling games). Over the next several weeks, top media companies and social networks will embed meebo rooms, Partner Edition, into their websites to enhance live engagement with their audiences. All embedded meebo rooms additionally provide brands and content providers with a unique opportunity to distribute content and branding, instantly, to the over one million people that log into meebo every day. "We're incredibly excited about enabling our community with chat functionality," said David Hyman, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and founder, MOG. "I believe it will take MOG closer to its goal of bridging relationships between people through music tastes and enabling music discovery in the process. Visit mog.com/chat and start chatting today." meebo rooms for artist pages In conjunction with this announcement, meebo is joining forces with 9 major record labels, including Capitol Records, Columbia Records, Fearless Records, Flyer Records, Island Def Jam Music Group, Jive Records, Nettwerk Music Group, Universal Motown/Universal Republic, and Virgin Records to connect fans live in seamless conversation on artists' official pages, Myspace profiles, and on personal pages, embedded by fans. meebo will be working with Columbia Records to promote Kelly Rowland's upcoming album, Ms. Kelly, which will be released on July 3, 2007. Visitors on official sites dedicated to Kelly including KellyRowland.com, Myspace.com/KellyRowland, as well as at meebo.com/room/KellyRowland will be able to participate in a live conversation about the music from her new album. On June 5, 2007, T-Pain, a Jive Records artist, promoted his highly-anticipated sophomore release, Epiphany, on meebo rooms in an unprecedented fashion. The Tallahassee, Florida-born rapper directed fans on his Myspace page to visit rooms on meebo (set up by region) to preview his album in full. Eager fans chatted and sampled the album live in an interactive listening party format. Partner Edition functionalities include: * Brand customization and Flash skinning. Partner Edition gives brands full control of the look and feel of their meebo rooms to create a seamless user and design experience between your brand and meebo technology. * Automated capacity spillover spill·o·ver n. 1. The act or an instance of spilling over. 2. An amount or quantity spilled over. 3. A side effect arising from or as if from an unpredicted source: . Designed for highly-trafficked media sites and artist pages, new rooms spawn automatically when capacity is reached. * Advertising tracking. Partners can seamlessly embed and track advertising in a room's media queue to monetize traffic inside meebo rooms. * Traffic and data reporting. Partner Edition offers enhanced traffic and data reporting capability to measure campaign effectiveness and results. * Integration with partners' existing registration system. Partner Edition authenticates logged user sessions and lets users take their registered names and buddy icons into the room with them, without requiring a meebo account. For more information on meebo rooms, Partner Edition, please visit blog.meebo.com/partners. About meebo Inc. meebo is a website for instant messaging. Founded in September 2005, meebo continues to catch on with IMers across the globe. After announcing 500,000 user-accounts in October 2006, meebo has more than quadrupled its registered users to 2.3 million in just six months with more than six million unique people logging in A colloquial term for the process of making the initial record of the names of individuals who have been brought to the police station upon their arrest. The process of logging in is also called booking. monthly. More than 1 million meebo sessions are initiated daily with average sessions of 70 minutes. meebo's investors include Sequoia Capital and Draper Fisher Jurvetson Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California with affiliate offices in more than 30 cities around the world and over $4.5 billion in capital commitments. . Visit meebo.com today to connect with people live on the Web. All brands, names, or trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners. |
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