Userplane was a
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service that offered both group-chat and one-to-one messenger services, which gave website owners the ability to offer chat between their users in a
wall-gardened experience.
Userplane was founded in 2001 by
Mike Jones,
Nate Thelen and
Javier Hall, in
Santa Monica, California
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.
Userplane powers chat experiences for many of the top 25 dating sites and language learning sites.
The
Inuyasha Journey was the most active Userplane community, hosting tens of thousands of active users.
Timeline
Userplane was founded in 2001 by
Mike Jones,
Nate Thelen and
Javier Hall.
In 2006, Userplane was acquired by
AOL
AOL (formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City, and a brand marketed by Yahoo! Inc.
The service traces its history to an online ...
for $40M.
August 2008, CEO Mike Jones leaves Userplane to join MySpace as CEO.
October 2008,
JS-Kit teams up with Userplane to distribute chat widgets.
During 2011, Userplane launched its new SDK platform with Webmessenger3 and Presencebar.
MaturesonCam
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On September 24, 2013, Userplane ended services.
References
External links
*http://www.userplane.com
*http://www.userplane.com/blog/
Chat websites
Companies established in 2001
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