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Meebo Community IM to Launch on Flixster; Looks Just Like Facebook Chat
Mashable! — Flixster will be deploying Meebo Community IM later this evening. The product, which has been in the works since early this year, allows Flixster users to chat with one another using Meebo from inside of the Flixster interface, with a service that looks remarkably similar to Facebook Chat. Users get a buddy list showing which of their Flixster friends are currently signed on, their statuses, and notifications of their recent activities, such as rating movies. The instant messaging conversations take place within a taskbar that will reside at the bottom of the Flixster UI – just like on Facebook. Here’s a demo of how it ...

Roundup: Yahoo developer platform launches, Wal-Mart sells G1, and more
VentureBeat — Here’s the latest action: So many games, so little time — The typical household video game collection boasts 48 titles but eleven percent of gamers own unopened games. That’s according to a new survey by analyst firm the NPD Group. Desktop software still relevant, Microsoft chief executive Ballmer maintains — His email to customers, here. Yahoo launches developer platform — See our preview from last week. Discounted G1 phones go on sale at Wal-Mart today — The Android-powered ...

Meebo Launches Community IM on Flixster
SocialTimes.com — Last night Meebo announced that it rolled out the first live version of its Community IM service on Flixster, the movie social network. Back in July I wrote about Meebo’s new service and called it a “Userplane-like platform”. Ultimately it is very similar in that both Userplane and Meebo have ultimately launched a Facebook-like chat platform available for third-party sites. This one looks pretty cool as displayed in the video below. When it comes to the social web, it’s pretty clear that Facebook has been leading the pack for the past year and a half. Even Yahoo! duplicated many of the features provided by the ...