We just celebrated our 2nd-year birthday with a little party up in San Francisco. The whole team has been working around the clock so it was nice to get some entertainment (Guitar Hero!) and finger food. It was really great to see so many of the folks who’ve helped us along the way as we’ve built meebo. Now, we promised we’d let you all in on our little birthday surprise, so here it is!

We’re super excited to debut applications inside meebo! Just click on that shiny new rocket ship icon in any IM window and then select which app you want to launch with your buddy. The first type of application we’re showcasing? Drumroll please… Voice and video chat.

So many of you have asked for this feature from day one and now you can video/audio call (TokBox), voice chat (Pudding Media), and group voice call (TalkShoe) on meebo, plus you can even create your own live TV show (UStream) to share with your friends!

Why stop there? There are so many cool applications you can dream up to connect people live! Play games? Go shopping? Watch TV? Find restaurants? They’re all coming soon and we know we can’t possibly code all the neat ideas out there, so we thought, why not open it up to all of you? We’re opening our doors and letting meebo applications be open for anyone to develop! Got an idea? Just visit http://www.meebo.com/platform and you can learn about the meebo platform API, obtain a unique key, and get access to a starter kit to help you build and test your application in meebo.com. JavaScript or Flash, it’s your choice.

When we were all thinking about how to describe our platform, we thought of a great phrase that represents the synchronous and live nature of meebo applications:

“I want to ______ with you.”

I have no idea what you all will come up with, but I bet it’ll be pretty creative! On November 27, we’re hosting another Lunch 2.0 at meebo, followed by an all-day and all-night dev camp for users, interested developers, and potential partners. If you’re far, far away from Mountain View, we’ll offer “virtual office hours” to connect remote developers with the meebo team via video and audio calls. Stay tuned for more details…

As always, we can’t wait to hear your feedback on all of this new stuff! We did our best to squash every bug that came up in the last few weeks, but if you find one (or two, or three), it would be so awesome if you emailed us at comments at meebo dot com or left us a message in the forum. We’ll definitely be working on getting things solid over the next few weeks to get ready for even more fun stuff showing up behind that cool rocket ship.

Can’t wait to hear what you think!

cheers,
sandy

[via the meebo blog]