Jubii

Jubii is, today, the name of several Community gates Internet in Europe and on the other side of the Atlantic offering various services. Property of Lycos Europe, it takes again on its account the name of its Danish gate acquired in 2000 with most extremely of the Bulle Internet. Also, " Jubii" mean in Danish " wow! " and " decides; Youbi". Often introduced in France the such successor of Caramail because of his Community aspect, it especially seems to affirm the such sucessor Web 2.0 of the various services already offered by Lycos Europe.

Caramail, designated predecessor: history and presentation

Birth of a great French-speaking community

Caramail is initially a webmail founded in 1997 by Orianne Garcia, Alexandre Roos and Christophe Schaming. Its name plays on the Homophonie with “Caramel”. Very quickly, a service of discussions on line (Cat) was added, then forums, then other ancillary services like auctions or a system of safeguard of documents (“caramalette”). More and more of Net surfers join the service and particularly its Cat, which will do of Caramail one of the communities of French-speaking users most important.

Its repurchase by Lycos Europe

In 2000, the Spray group repurchases Caramail. Spray is then made repurchase the same year by Lycos Europe. The access to Caramail is done from now on starting from the Portail Lycos and either starting from a clean interface.

Sails very about it at the time of the beginnings of Internet in France (Caramail was then the number one of the free webmails), Caramail suffered from many engineering problems and its excess of aggressives publicities following its integration with Lycos. The experienced users were largely diverted of this service. Many suppliers of access whose Free complained about the performances of the technical infrastructure chosen by Lycos for the transit of the emails. The waiters are generally saturated when they are not simply inalienable! Processing times of several days are currency.

Profiting from an enormous notoriety and carrying out a consequent turnover at his beginnings, one can say that the management of Caramail by the transferees was calamitous. In spite of the growth of the number of Net surfers, the cat and the transport of Caramail never reached the success which they had in 1999-2000.

The technical side being improved and the services following about the total evolution of its competitors, Caramail was maintained in the average of the other free webmails. The problems of too long times of loading, of aggressive publicities (in particular a publicity in full screen, with the personal coordinates of the user, immediately at the time of connection to the service) will have however perduré until the disappearance of the service in 2007.

Evolution of CaraChat, service headlight of the community become " Lycos" cat;

The first version of the Cat, in HTML and little made safe, reaching its limit of 1 000 simultaneous users, a second version in Java is written by Arnaud Lemaitre. This version is made safe and moreover, it is moderate: the indelicate users can be ejected and them removed illegal living rooms of discussion. At a peak, nearly thirty waiters allowed to provide a dialog on line to more 40 000 simultaneous users.

It was possible to make simple research like the city, the age or the Pseudonyme of a connected user.

Paying functions of Smiley S appeared after the repurchase by Lycos.

From the success of the cat, subscribers undertook to develop alternate customers with the Java interface. Among most famous, one will find KaraibeTchat, Caraclient, CaraWinChat… intended to facilitate the life of the users, but also of the advertizing robots. These customers circumvented the advertizing systems and the systems of authentification. Lycos sought to block these customers, by threatening their shelterers or by modifying aspects of their protocol. The developers were to then redécouvrir the protocol to integrate it within their customers (Retro-engineering)

The maintenance of this version of the cat becoming increasingly expensive, because of pollution, because of its popularity, it was given up, then stopped on January 25th, 2005 definitively little by little, to leave room at the end of February 2005 to its successor.

A new Cat in HTML standardized with the image of the other Cat of Lycos Europe ends up replacing it without gaining the success of its predecessor. The number of connected simultaneous pains to exceed the 5 000 users. This Cat has functions which are lacking with its predecessor, loses others of them. One can note for example the messages of the robots, messages going of the reception to the reprimand while passing by the council, but also the system of rows giving access additional functionalities.

Problems of safety

Caramail with its service of Cat encountered many problems and acquired a hackable reputation of webmail by no matter whom. With very many recoveries, its waiters were visited and its erased information, copied or deteriorated. For example, at certain times it sufficed for any user to change URL page to become moderating even administrator of the Cat. Many periods of maintenance during several days also tarnished the image of the transport.

Jubii, sucessor Web 2.0 indicated: new prospects for Lycos Europe?

Repurchase of the Danish gate Jubii by Lycos Europe in 2000

Based in Copenhagen, Jubii is in the beginning a gate Danish Web having been born in 1995. In 2000, it is repurchased by Lycos Europe. This one thus has the appearance of the other Lycos gates. Only the logo changes.

2005 and the development of the services JubiiBlog and SprayBlog

In 2005, the Jubii mark appears in France through the service of blog JubiiBlog also present in Germany, in Denmark, in Spain, in Great Britain, in Italy, in the Netherlands and in Sweden under the SprayBlog mark.

2007 and birth of new Jubii services, pillars of a new Community gate

In 2007, Jubii appears a such Community Portail Web centralizing means of communication and of expression around a Webmail being moulted in a true personal space. Also, that recalls it to much the claims of the old French-speaking community Caramail. Thus, Jubii intends to propose compared to the precedent Webmail more safety and, with the possiblility to receive and to send Courriel, is added that to pass from the phone calls. Is also profiled other services such that of Chat, of Site of meeting, Blog, exchange of vidéos…

Following the repurchase of Lycos states-unien by the South Korean company Daum, the various services offered not Lycos Europe seems to change patronym. JubiiDate Love@Lycos and JubiiWorld with the Chat Lycos… the future of will Lycos Europe intends to succeed pass by Jubii? Lycos Europe made, in any case, rider only on the other side of the Atlantic where it launched its own Jubii gate. Recent Jubii gates still opened in France, in Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, with the Netherlands and the Denmark through JubiiConnect.

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