Meebo Platform: A Widget Platform?

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Meebo Platform: A Widget Platform?

by Avatar	Stumble this!	November 21st 2007

Yes, yes it is.

This affirmation comes from a friend asking me if Meebo new apps could be considered Widgets.

Because they are widgets from a modular sense, in the same line of thinking of Windows Live Spaces and most Silverlight widgets right now: they are loaded up inside a Iframe, the rest depends of the code of the widget being supported or not. but Meebo Apps are pretty much JavaScript and Flash apps. something that can easily be reiterated by the Meebo platform page.

Aps developed in Meebo are simply run by the opening of a specific iframe that launches the desired option in the Meebo launcher (by the very clever rocketship button.

It is clear to me now that Meebo does follow a specific line of inspiration while replicating a desktop client; and that should be Yahoo!. from corny emoticons, to corny backgrounds and the way the video chat works, but with the recent news of Games in Meebo it becomes crystal clear that they do follow more closely Yahoo! than Live Messenger or Gtalk.

And if you follow on the widgets as modular services idea, it really shows that it is right to think that way when you see some of the names in the list of the Meebo partners.

This developments in Meebo also push on the idea of embedded services where you tie and bind the providing of a service thanks to a widget module linked with a API; something that will become more and more frequent.

I will review Meebo Platform in more detail in a later post, meanwhile if you want to try out the widgets you only need to enter with any of your IM id`s to check it out without the need of any registrations.

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