A few months ago, Dare Obasanjo ripped me a new one for praising Meebo in Meebo and the Coming Battle For the Software Long Tail

People don’t have enough imagination? At the end of the day, it is an AJAX version of Trillian. That’s probably one of the most unimaginative applications I could come up with.

Where are the competitors?

Lack of competitors usually shows a business is a bad idea. That’s the first lesson of starting a business. The reason it is a bad idea is the same reason building an AJAX site that shows you Google and Yahoo!’s search results is a bad idea. And if you can’t figure out why that’s a bad idea…I can’t help you there.

Apparently Dare has changed his mind. Not trying to pick fight (ok, maybe to gloat a little bit?)

I’m a loyal reader, in fact, I find his blog insightful and thought provoking. And in this case, I can see why he didnt really change his mind. It is MeeboMe that he found “fucking cool” not Meebo itself.

Meebo in its first incarnation is not that innovative of an idea . . . that I have to agree with. However, it is offering a sizable value proposition as proven by its near instaneous scale. As a result, Meebo was able to leverage that traction into new products such as MeeboMe that IS INNOVATIVE and ground breaking. . .AND popularly recieved.

As an optimist, I was focused on Meebo’s potentials (read multistep strategies) and opportunities while Dare focuse on its current product & execution. Nothing wrong with either approach really. And ofcourse, in the end, bloggers always reserve the right to change our mind . . . we write posts in matter of minutes; more often than not, a stream of conciousness post rather than a cogent essay . . . this is the beauty of the blogosphere, its a conversation rather than a publication . . . Next time, when I change my mind (almost every week) I hope someone goes easy on me