Did you know you can chat with your visitors using Meebo?

Meebo has already gained a lot of popularity among the masses for their amazing web based chat service that lets you simultaneously login to MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, Gmail, AIM and IRC networks and chat with your friends there.

Though I usually login to my respective messengers, I have been using their service quite extensively and am a very satisfied user of the same.

With the launch of MeeboMe, they now let visitors to your site chat with you live, if you are logged into Meebo. While this is not a new concept, this is usually a paid service offered by several companies.

I am not sure if I will make full utilization of MeeboMe, but I have generated a widget as you can see below. (you may not be able to see it if you are using a feed reader)

Have given it a test run and I am pleased with the results so far. I may just decide to make it permanent!

One good feature I noticed is it’s tracking of the visitor even across browsers (I assume using their IP Address ?)
I’m sure this may be considered by users to be a privacy related issue. I don’t think it should be that much of a worry, because a good number of stat scripts are already doing basic tracking.

Just wish that they generate XHTML Compliant code. ~~Or maybe I should write a plugin for this?~~ The meebo me Plugin for WordPress is now available for download.

I have signed up at their forum and am providing some suggestions for making it even better.

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Post Date :: Wednesday, Aug 2nd, 2006 at 9:14 pm
Category :: Computers & Technology
Tags :: AIM, chat, computers, gmail, IRC, jabber, Meebo, meebome, msn, yahoo
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