Monthly Archives: November 2007

Goodbye Meebo & Co: GMail + AIM

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Screenshots of Google Talk’s Integration with AIM with Gmail

From the start, Meebo reeked of being a feature turned into a company. I’m sorry, but really? Taking a proprietary messaging service, building on top of it, and trying to pass it off with a profit?

Meebo was nice. I used it from time to time when I had to get online and the computer I was on didn’t allow for installing AIM. But that was it.

I’ve always wondered why none of the bigger companies like Google or even… Facebook didn’t do this. Especially Facebook: Heck, they could start their own internal instant messaging suite, upping their ridiculous “time spent” stat.

I’m sure uncov‘s going to have a field day with this one.

IMAP on Google: Took Them Long Enough…

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I guess Google thought I wasn’t cool enough, because starting last week, Gmail had been phasing in IMAP. But today, they’ve finally announced the darn thing for everyone.

Seriously. Took them long enough! I guess it wasn’t ranked high on the list of priorities at Google, seeing how iPhone users are like one in a million (and yes, I know there are non-iPhone users who would be interested in IMAP… but I’m sure the push for it had to do something with it). But still, I trusted Google to step it up and to bring their A game. I didn’t want to create some kind of kludge forwarding system to Yahoo! and have to deal with other accounts.

Huzzah.