Meebo, the company that enables real-time social interactions, today announced its Meebo App for iPhone and iPod touch is now available from the App Store. Meebo lets users chat with their buddies on every major Instant Messaging (IM) and social network in a single buddy list

“Meebo is excited to deliver an app for iPhone and iPod touch that is fast to load and fun to use,” said Seth Sternberg, founder and CEO, Meebo. “We can’t wait to start reading the reviews and hearing directly from users about their experience running the Meebo App.”

Optimized for speed, simplicity and performance the Meebo App offers a best-of-breed chat experience for consumers, backed by the company’s 4+ years of experience in the real-time messaging space:
-     Log into Meebo and your online buddies load speedily on your buddy list. Access contacts on AIM, Gmail, Facebook, Myspace, and other major social services.
-     Receive push notifications when you get a new IM, even when the app is closed. Tapping the notification instantly launches Meebo so you can reply to the message.
-     Select a buddy to initiate a conversation, view profile info, or check their status message. Manage multiple conversations simultaneously with the flick of a finger.
-     Switch to landscape mode for easy communication with a wider keyboard.
-     Post a status message to keep your buddies up to date. Set your presence to “Invisible” or “Away,” and then switch back to “Available” mode while online.
-     Seamlessly manage your chat sessions as you switch back and forth between the Meebo App on iPhone or iPod touch and meebo.com.
-     Keep your chat history in sync between your iPhone or iPod touch and meebo.com so you can view your complete chat history whenever you like, wherever you like.

The Meebo app is available for free from the App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore/.

For more information about working with Meebo, please visit business.meebo.com.

About Meebo:
With over 100 million people sharing over 6 billion messages and 75 million links every month, Meebo is one of the Web’s fastest growing social media companies. Founded in September 2005, Meebo enables real-time social interactions with instant messaging at meebo.com, on mobile, and on partner sites across the Web. Over 120 leading publishers use Meebo for their sites. Partners running Meebo measure increases in social sharing, audience growth, engagement, and revenue. Meebo is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Today, Meebo launched a real-time notifications service for web sites as a new feature of the Meebo Bar. With the new service, online publishers can now promote content via notifications in real time to move traffic around their site, direct users to fresh content, and keep site visitors informed with instant short messages.

Meebo, a social media company that reaches over 115 million people monthly, today launched a real-time notifications service for web sites as a new feature of the Meebo Bar. Publishers can now promote content via notifications in real time to move traffic around their site, direct users to fresh content, and keep site visitors informed with instant short messages. The result is increased engagement via a lightweight new programming option for publishers. Adweek is the first site to show off the new functionality of the latest Meebo Bar on Adweek.com.

The release marks the ninth major update Meebo has made to its Meebo Bar, which is used by over 150 leading online publishers today, and 3000+ websites via Meebo’s self-serve offering at bar.meebo.com. The Meebo Bar comprises a lightweight suite of social applications, including drag-and-drop sharing, custom buttons and bar programming options, instant messaging, integrated advertising and promotional platform, and starting today, a real-time notifications service.

Adweek plans to use Meebo’s new service to further enable readers to keep on top of the latest happenings in the advertising world, from online video advertising to the latest funny TV commercials. Via the Meebo Bar, Adweek.com can easily promote fresh content on the site by pushing content through Meebo’s notifications engine. Each new piece of content is highlighted with a “toast” notification on the Meebo Bar, and when activated, a custom Adweek menu rises vertically to show what’s new. The user can then click to visit that highlighted article or section.

“Meebo’s new real-time notifications service will help readers connect to Adweek content as the story develops, and as the news breaks – at a level of immediacy in line with the pace of the advertising industry,” said Lisa Sullivan-Cross, VP, Online for Adweek.

Meebo is offering individual Web sites a way to push real-time content promotions, messages, pictures, links, and other media to their own audiences via a simple interface on the Meebo Dashboard (dashboard.meebo.com), or via the new Meebo Promotions API. The Meebo Bar can also include real-time notifications for updates to RSS feeds via PubSubHubbub. Support for other protocols is planned.

“With our latest updates to the Meebo Bar, we’ve taken a big step forward in bridging the gap between the promise and the reality of social media. When publishers can communicate with their audiences at the precise moment they have updates, or new content, Meebo brings content owners even closer to their audiences,” said Seth Sternberg, CEO and Founder, Meebo. “This new service aligns with the goals of our partners: greater opportunities for traffic growth, revenue, and user engagement.”

With more customizable features than ever, the new Meebo Bar is simple and quick for publishers to implement. For more information about ways to work with Meebo, and how to get the latest version of the Meebo Bar, please visit business.meebo.com.

About Meebo
With over 115 million people sharing over 6 billion messages and 75 million links every month, Meebo is one of the Web’s fastest growing social media companies. Founded in September 2005, Meebo enables real-time social interactions with instant messaging at meebo.com and on partner sites across the Web. Over 150 leading publishers use Meebo for their sites. Partners running Meebo measure increases in social sharing, audience growth, engagement, and revenue. Meebo is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.