Meebo Gets Chatrooms

The web based multi protocol messenger, Meebo has unveiled a new feature called Meebo Rooms. Basically, it’s a chat room and you can create or join any room. You can add chat rooms to your Meebo buddy list, inorder to get notified whenever someone drops messages in the chat room, but this feature can get annoying, if the room is highly active. Every room will feature a media player which will play YouTube and Metacafe videos whenever someone posts a link to those videos, the same functionality works for Flickr photos as well.

Meebochat

It is also possible to embed chat rooms to you site (just like MeeboMe). You are allowed to choose between different widget sizes (with or without media players) or you also have the option to choose your own size as well.

A room can hold upto 80 members. In an interview with TechCrunch, Meebo CEO, Seth Sternberg said that they are working on extending the number, without affecting the stability of the room. As a solution to this problem, they will create clone rooms whenever a room reaches the 80 members limit.

In other Meebo News, they’ve started advertising between videos. Any video posted in Meebo Rooms will include 15 – 30 seconds ads in between.

This post was published by on May 16, 2007

About the Author: Thilak Rao works as a Social Media Expert. He is one of the first professional bloggers from India, and he loves to write, travel and click photos. Follow him on Twitter @thilak

  • http://techmantra.net Vikram

    WOW ! This is really Cool !!

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    nice info thanks for sharing

  • http://technixupdate.com abhishek bhatnagar

    thats looks cool i think it worth giving it a try..thanks

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