Meebo
Rating: 5
Version tested: Beta
Meebo is a universal chat Ajax-based web application. It enables you to access your AIM, Yahoo, MSN messenger, Google Talk, ICQ, and Jabber instant messaging services in the same place from any browser, without having to install any messaging software locally on your machine. It also provides you with the ability to embed a widget on a website where visitors can instant message your Meebo account in real time if you are logged on.
You are part of the new digital age, which means that you likely keep in touch with you friends, family, and co-worker across multiple IM clients (AIM, Yahoo, etc.). You’ve discovered that you can use a universal chat client like (freeware) GAIM or Miranda IM, and it’s made your life so much easier, but what do you do when you’re away from your computer; on the road or travelling or just using someone else’s machine?
Enter Meebo, a web app that enables you to (a) connect to all of the above mentioned IM clients inside your browser, from any location, without installing any software, and (b) if you have a website, you can embed a so-called Meebo-me widget into your site that would allow visitors of the site to IM you should you be logged into your Meebo account. I haven’t tried this but from the looks of it, it’s pretty cool stuff. Who knows, perhaps one day there will be a Meebo-me widget on freewaregenius!
More info on Meebo:
- Its still in alpha, so you may encounter some glitches, though I didn’t.
- Upon signing on to your Meebo account, a consolidated, single buddy list is populated from all of your different IM accounts.
- The user interface works very well and is pretty fast and responsive.
- Meebo still do not have emoticon support as of this writing. Since this is alpha software in the instant messaging world, I am guessing that it will be there sometime soon.
All in all this is really worth looking into. I don’t think I will abandon my beloved GAIM2 when I’m using my laptop, but I did create a Meebo account, and I know where to go when I need it.
Go to the Meebo home page.
I’ve used this on occasion, once I get my studio website up, I’ll use their “widget” option.
Been using it at university ever since it came out. It just keeps getting better.
this is tooo coooooooool!!!!!!!!!!!!
My high school has just started this laptop program this year, which gives every highschooler (9-12) a laptop to use at school and home (don’t worry about the abusive children, because all students are required to get a form of insurance on their laptop) Well, with this laptop students cant use the popular msn messenger, so we have discovered MEEBO!!! I love it! Problem is that the school keeps blocking the sites that we find to go onto it. [Like there is wwwl.meebo.com, www26.meebo.com, www18.meebo.com,wwwm.meebo.com.] Anyway, I was wondering if I could get a list of all the turns and keys of the system. What are all the websites? Because I am not too happy to have to find a new site every day! Thanks:D
http://forum.meebo.com/viewtopic.php?p=66012
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Cool website and help me from cannot sign in msn messenger
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hai… is there any other way that i can download meebo other than going to the meebo website? i cannot access the website from office PC as that website is banned due to the Company policy..
dude, me is being extremely gay recently and shutting off, its not just my computer cause its doing it to all my friends. then it takes like ten minutes to get back on..it does this like every hour
i want to install meebo messenger at own computer