meebee recognized by Red Herring!

It always feels good to be recognized, especially when we've been hard at work here at the Hive, trying to revamp and redesign an even better meebee.com (more on that coming soon!).  So it felt good when we heard that meebee.com was "selected as one of this year's Red Herring 100 Europe finalists."  Red Herring noted they "screened hundreds of companies for the award so your achievement is no small feat."  Moreover, "The Red Herring editorial team selected the most innovative companies from a pool of hundreds from across Europe.  The nominees are evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their respective industries."

Check out more on the event here. And wish us luck in the next stage of the competition in Paris!

meebee fans: Get your own meebee merch!

The meebee team is proud to announce that we have tons of meebee gear! Aside from working on tons of new features that will make meebee even more fun, fast and friendly to use - we've also been designing sweet merch!! Cool t-shirts, bottle openers, fun stickers, snazzy backpacks - even poker chips! Some of you lucky fans got such gear at the massive SXSW. And those at Web 2.0 in San Fran can catch our CEO who is passing out our new gear (get the latest with all that here). Email us at meebeebuzz (at) meebee.com if you want to get your hands on the cool stuff.

meebee at Web 2.0 Expo

Just touched down in San Francisco last night for the always fun and exciting web 2.0 expo! Can't wait to meet all the other top players in the web industry to learn some new tips, share some new tips and hopefully find a few AWESOME web gurus to join the meebee team!

As our users continue to grow, our staff needs to grow as well! We will be in San Francisco for two weeks and are looking for highly motivated, talented and experienced web professionals. The meebee staff operates the same way as the site - Fun, Fast and Friendly. If you fancy yourself as a "tech wiz" and are looking to join an up and coming start-up then drop us a line - jobs (at) meebee.com. Most importantly send in your track record with examples of your awesome results. Be sure to include when you will be available to meet and where while at web 2.0!

1) Product Development Manager
Experienced in skilled development of web 2.0 apps and knowledge of mobile and social media apps. Will be responsible for helping with the overall development and advancement of the site, day to day web development projects and interacting with US based product dev. team. Additionally, will be responsible for managing our web 2.0 application and future development, experience in development of web 2.0 apps, Facebook apps, iPhone apps is ideal.

2) Marketing Manager
Expert in various social media and social marketing platforms. Must have an eye for detail and ambitious attitude to help secure major partnerships, article write-ups and grow user growth exponentially.

If you're a fit, then let us know! Send your resume and/or link to your online profile, plus 2 photos of you, to jobs (at) meebee.com.

Pain in the A Q&A: At SXSW with Venmo

And we're back...with another edition of our "Pain in the A Q&A." Two editions, actually. One is with Jameel from Venmo.com, which you can find below from SXSW. Venmo allows people to send money via a mobile platform, and has cool colorful shirts. They also chat about the pains of making meetings, but how meebee.com can take that pain away and give you more time to do fun stuff!


The second video is another interview at SXSW, but all in Japanese! Yup, JD flexes his languages skills (he used to live in Japan as a media juggernaut).


*Click here for other great meebee videos, from interviews with web celebs to iPad spoofs.
*Click here for more SXSW coverage: pics, videos and more.

Cool stats about your time!

At the Hive we're all about finding new ways to save time in each day and thought we'd share some cool stats about saving time. Feel free to add any cool stats you've heard in the past about saving/ wasting time! And don't forget to use meebee.com to save time and make life easy! Enjoy.

-On an average day, there are 17 million meetings in America.

-The average person uses 13 different methods to control and manage their time.

-1 hour of planning will save 10 hours of doing.
-The average worker sends and receives 190 messages per day.
-Taking 5 minutes per day, 5 days per week to improve one’s job will create 1,200 little improvements to a job over a 5 year period.
-When someone is asking for our time for a meeting, 80% of the time, there is an alternate date and time that will be acceptable.
-80% of employees do not want to go to work on Monday morning. By Friday, the rate only drops to 60%.
-20% of the average workday is spent on "crucial" and "important" things, while 80% of the average workday is spent on things that have "little value" or "no value".
-In the last 20 years, working time has increased by 15% and leisure time has decreased by 33%.
-60% of meeting attendees take notes to appear as if they are listening.
-78% of workers in America wish they had more time to "smell the roses".
-Angry people are twice as likely to suffer a heart attack as a person in better control of their emotions.
-It almost always takes twice as long to complete a task as what we originally thought it would take.
-The average working person spends less than 2 minutes per day in meaningful communication with their spouse or "significant other".
-The average working person spends less than 30 seconds a day in meaningful communication with their children.

*Statistics found on http://www.balancetime.com/articles/tm_facts_and_figures.htm

meebee even easier with Facebook Connect!

Yup, this week meebee.com is proud to  offer Facebook Connect! We here at meebee.com strive to take out the hassle of making meetups with friends, dates and business contacts. And in doing so, we strive to make meebee.com fun, fast and friendly. Also, we all have enough online accounts, profiles and logins. It's too much to keep track of sometimes. So, in staying true to meebee's focus, we've added Facebook Connect to our list of features that make meebee fun, fast and friendly!
So no need to set up a whole new login. Simply sync up meebee with your Facebook account and make meetings even easier!
For all of you that already have a meebee login, no worries. You can continue to use it and/or sign up with Facebook Connect.

meebee to make "splash" at Vator.tv competition

With only a few weeks into April, meebee has been creating a lot of buzz within the web world. It has been a non-stop rollercoaster ride since the end of SXSW in Austin. In less than a month we rocked the crowd at Innovate! 2010, Berlin and got accepted into the prestigious Red Herring event.

The ball is still rolling and right now we are focusing on the highly anticipated "The Next Web" event and getting the most votes for the Vator Splash competition. We entered the competiton and have already started to make an impact, BUT we need your help! The contest is based on getting votes from the people. All you need to do is 3 easy steps and then you're entered to win AWESOME prizes and chances to live cool life experiences!  Here's what you have to do to vote:

1) SIGNUP: Visit http://vator.tv/registration and fill out the short form (don't worry, they won't spam you unless you check the boxes at the bottom).
2) CONFIRM: Check your email and click the link in the the email from "Vator.tv."

3) VOTE: After clicking the link in your email, click on the blue "Competitions" tab, and then under "Running Competitions," click the "Vator Splash Competition (May)" link. Or go straight to it from: http://bit.ly/vatorsplash. Find meebee.com (blue logo) and click "Vote for this Company."

That's it! Thank you in advance and happy voting!

iPad: Environmentally Friendly and with Flash!

Ok, it's over. After a massive revealing, months of hype and a pushed-back launch date, Apple's iPad has finally launched. It seems the reviews are hit and miss: it's too heavy, can't multi-task and other technological glitches such as having no Flash capabilities. Really? Not so. meebee's CEO took on Steve Jobs for the second time (click here to see the first) to prove that the iPad does in fact have Flash (poof!). Plus, it's environmentally friendly? Enjoy the quick video spoof...

Breaking News: iPad to support Flash

Due to a flurry of complaints, parody videos and proposed boycotts of the soon to be released iPad, Steve Jobs and the Apple Corporation have decided to make some major changes to the highly publicized product before its April 3rd launch – the first being the addition of Flash.

According to a private source, the leak came from a Best Buy sales rep late Wednesday night. “I can’t say I’m surprised, it was ludicrous of Apple to expect the product to do well considering their serious lack in product features and relatively high cost” said David Strazner, a web developer out of Silicon Valley. It is a smart move on Apple’s part considering the amount of criticism they have received for the iPads inability to support flash in addition to a laundry list of other "should be standard" features for the $500 oversized iTouch. Analyst's are curious if this last minute stunt will be enough to win over the less than impressed iPad critics. There has yet to be an official statement made by Jobs and Apple at the moment but it is expected to come later in the day. See YouTube's response...

Help meebee out = get a free t-shirt!

As a startup, we come across a lot of decisions. Some are little, some are big (a list of open positions at meebee). But the "devil's in the details" as the saying goes, and we got stumped on this one. What should we name our "make a meeting" button? It appears throughout meebee.com, and on the very blog you're reading. It needs to be action inducing, catchy and clear. So, help us out and give us your input. One lucky "pollster" will win a free meebee t-shirt!