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Filed under: Asides, WordPress | Tags: IM | September 14th, 2005

Meebo IM

Meebo is IM Chat 2.0, and in the tradition of many Web 2.0 ventures they have a WordPress blog. Hat tip: Derkilicious.

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12 Responses

  • ceejayoz | September 14th, 2005 @ 7:01 pm | Reply

    A third-party website asking for AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, and ICQ passwords?

    Methinks they might have a bit of a trust issue cropping up.

  • Dmitri Von Klein | September 14th, 2005 @ 9:22 pm | Reply

    Trust is an issue indeed, with that being said, this is very handy dandy!

    Thanks for the heads up Matt man.

  • Nikki | September 14th, 2005 @ 11:41 pm | Reply

    Few features missing. I could have really used this while travelling. Ability to set up account rather than having to log in separately for each IM

  • mike bailey | September 15th, 2005 @ 3:50 pm | Reply

    I tried that out last night, It’s pretty great.

  • fl0yd | September 16th, 2005 @ 4:18 am | Reply

    will it be integrated into a wordpress-like blog?

  • eric | September 16th, 2005 @ 8:07 am | Reply

    I’m not sure I see the point in meebo, other than a rarely-useful way to log on from restricted computers. It looks nice, and it works, but my interest ends well short of fascination.

    How is this IM 2.0? Is it because it uses ajax? Needing to leave a browser window open to carry on a conversation (and remain logged in) seems pretty web 0.5 to me. I’d say it’s more or less a pared-back Trillian, run in a browser, with all the limitations that brings with it. IM 2.0 is when I can log in once – to Google Talk, or AIM, or whatever – and talk to someone on any other network. As it stands now, interesting effort, mediocre concept.

  • AlienTiger | September 18th, 2005 @ 10:58 am | Reply

    some people will always be nay-sayers, and others idiots :)
    meebo is an awsome concept, many people arnt able to install programs on their respective machines for whatever reasons, so haveing a web interface come in real handy, what abou when you goto a friends house who dosent have a specific im service installed, just pull up meebo :)

    in anycase i too am skeptical to use it tho, due to privacy issues, i dont see any guarentee i can believe that they arnt sjsut harvesting passwords, and that kinda makes me wanna avoid it for now

  • Greg | December 1st, 2006 @ 4:30 am | Reply

    You guyz ever heard of eBuddy? Supports MSN, Yahoo and AIM (AOL).

    They got a clear private/legal policy. See for yourself…

    http://www.ebuddy.com

  • Shuan | December 22nd, 2006 @ 5:24 am | Reply

    Yo, good tip – eBuddy looks and works better than Meebo, and it’s all integratged into one browser!

    A really good alternative to Meebo.

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