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Meebo Discontinuing All Services Except for Meebo Bar

Posted by Unknown on from the and-you-thought-microsoft-was-fast dept.

An anonymous reader writes with news of Meebo's fate, a mere six days after being acquired by Google. From the article: "Meebo, which began in 2005 as a browser based instant messaging program, will now cease most of its services by next month. The IM service supported various IM platforms such as Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, AIM, ICQ, MySpaceIM, Facebook Chat, Google Talk, CafeMom and others." Their cash cow, the Meebo bar, will "...continue to be available to site publishers and will see continued improvements and new features in the weeks and months ahead." With Meebo killing off their messenger, are there any good Android chat alternatives that aren't tied to Google Talk?

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  1. Yes, there is. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Imo.im is actually a better solution for multi-service instant messaging on Android than Meebo,

  2. eBuddy by Brain+Damaged+Bogan · · Score: 4, Informative

    eBuddy is a nice multi-IM client for android.

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  3. THIS IS A SUBJECT FIELD by X0563511 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm sorry, what connects with them? I don't see anything relevant in your message body.

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  4. Re:April fools? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    It means you may have Asperger syndrome because you couldn't figure out that GP was trying to say "in general..."