Meebo.com went live in September 2005 and has received two rounds of funding totalling approx. 12.5 million USD.  In addition to being a medium of exchange itself, it also offers a community and some very cool features, such as meebo.me – a widget that you can add (personalized) to your webpage and then chat with the people that get to your webpage. Their newest thing however is meebo rooms: with meebo.rooms you can create and customize your own “chat channel” complete with videos and other media that you like to add. Others can subscribe to your room. This is an interesting feature for private users as well as for businesses: Meebo already announced a couple of partnerships, blip.tv and NBC among them.

But how is Meebo making money? They are doing some adsales  and they probably charge some of their b2b services / cooperations. Anyway, by continuing to create neat services like meebo.rooms etc. and by promoting their business worldwide they will continue to grow and will certainly be around for a while.