Thanks to Tantek Çelik for setting up a wiki for us at http://NetSquared.pbwiki.com. I have posted partial chat transcripts there on the N2Y2 page. Here's day 1 and day 2.

I made these transcripts by just copying the log whenever I remembered, so there are some gaps especially at the beginning. Please fill in any bits if you also saved it.

Just two months after launching Meebo, Seth Sternberg spoke at our second San Francisco Net Tuesday in December of 2005.  According to Seth's recent post on the Meeblog, on October 2, 2006, the 500,000th person registered for a Meebo account and 42,000 unique Meebome widgets have been embedded on web pages.

We had a small but lively group last night at the San Francisco Net Tuesday. Raphe Patmore, CEO, and Jinnan Cai, Technical Director, from Buzka were there all the way from Perth, Australia. Buzka is "a simple way to share all your favorite web stuff" in what they call "spots." For example, Jinnan showed me the Refugee Detention spot he created (screenshot above) to share links about refugee issues in Australia. The interface is easy to navigate, and you can view the links by title, description or thumbnails (they have a server creating screenshots of the pages).

Dan Bernstein of Business and Marketing from Meebo, "the web messenger that lets you access IM from absolutely anywhere," showed us how a fifth grade teacher, Mrs. Uppman, put the Meebome widget on her classroom web site so that students and their parents can IM her about homework and other stuff. Cute!!

Dan also told us about a couple cool librarian sites: the Library and Information Technology blog and I Am a Librarian, which promotes instant messaging in libraries.

Finally, Craig Rosa told us about a discussion happening this week on the ASTC (Association of Science-Technology Centers) forum about social technologies. He said that one thread of the discussion was about how Flickr has become a money-saving tool for museums looking for images.

I just embedded a chat window into the Net Tuesday page, and it took me all of 20 seconds.  Serously, that was so easy I still can't believe it!

The makers of Gabbly, that oh-so-easy chat maker that powered the NetSquared remote conference, will be participating in an on- and off-line chat for tonight's Net Tuesday.  If you can't join us in person at the Hotel Utah, join us online at 7pm PST by just going to the Net Tuesday page (it may take a few seconds for the chat to load).  

In other chat news, there's a new service from an old friend of NetSquared, Meebo (Seth presented at our 2nd Net Tuesday).  It's called MeeboMe, and it's the talk of the town.  Like Gabbly, MeeboMe is easily embedded into your website.  While Meebo is a personal 1-1 chat service and works with a variety of Instant Messengers like AIM, Gabbly creates chat rooms and doesn't require a login.  They're very complementary tools, and both free and easy ways to bring a new dimension to your website. Yay free and easy!