As a meaningless name, meebo.com does have a certain ‘feel’ about it that seems appropriate for its function.  The service was started as one of the founders had a problem remembering their 13 instant messenger accounts. Meebo aggregates your messenger accounts in one place, so you can be super-connected. Yep. Meeee! It’s all about Meeeee! bo.To give them credit, they were fairly early-wave in their adoption of a silly name, and are shamelessly upfront about it.

http://www.meebo.com/history/ contains a whole section called “why the name meebo?” that runs to an amazing 4 paragraphs.  The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

The tl;dr of the rambling excuse is literally TDCWA:

“They came up with about fifty… entered all fifty names, one by one, into a browser…the rest were taken…they picked Meebo and voilà!”

I did in fact give this service a go once, but using it for my single lowly icq number seemed a bit of a waste. Their subsequent success at shoehorning a decidedly desktop-app based service (IM) into a shiny webapp that breaks the Alexa 500 means I’m going to give them a break on their name choice. I mean really, what would you have called it.  AllYourIMAccountsAreBelongToUs.com?

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