Every employee’s email address has been switched from to A switch like this is often a precursor to the launch of a Webmail product. But there is another clue pointing to somethingbigger than that brewing at Meebo. Certainly, adding email notifications that pop up like IM’s and then take you to your Web-based email service of choice would be just as much a convenience for Web-based users as for desktop users. That does leave room for a “non-standard” email client. so i think it’s unlikely we’ll build a standard email client into .” He writes (via email): “everything we do is oriented around real-time communication. Why not add this to as well? Sternberg tries to shoot that notion down.
The notifier is also a good place to test new features since most of Meebo’s members use the browser-based versions of its service. Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg characterizes this as a “convenience feature” for desktop users: “Basically, we’re creating the same bridge between the webmail services and the desktop that we’ve already created between Meebo’s web site and the desktop.”