Meebo, the Web’s live communication platform, today announced an additional round of partners who signed up to use Meebo Community IM for their own users, making Meebo the largest open IM network on the Web. In combination with the eight launch partners announced in July, the network of partners signed up to use Meebo now has a total unduplicated global reach of 72.9 million (August 2008) and an unduplicated reach in the US of 26.2 million (August 2008), according to comScore Media Metrix. Meebo’s latest offering, Meebo Community IM, integrates open instant messaging into online communities, enabling live communication and real-time notifications between members of social media, entertainment, gaming, and blog networks. Users are also able to communicate with each other at meebo.com, resulting in an open and federated instant...
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