google is smart enough to realize that buying user bases doesnt work so it must be the meebo metrics and their client install base? over the last few years it seems like meebo has been struggling to make chat more of a commodity than it actually is, IMO and at this price its more like a push for investors. as for g+ - desperate times call for desperate measures.

perhaps fridge will go into stasis and come back in freak super-human form, complete with anime-style avatars with bulbous heads which bop along as you post. :P