http://www.meebo.com

If you’ve never heard me preach the good news of meebo, pull up a pew and lend an ear.

Meebo started off as a very interesting idea. Let’s take a chat client and throw it into a web browser window. Many of you who follow MSN / AIM / Yahoo know that this has been done by each of the respective companies into something they call a web messenger. It’s usually a Java or ActiveX version of their full featured software that runs in a browser window. However, when meebo decided to undertake this vision, they envisioned something totally different. Where the webmessengers would force you to keep separate browser windows open for each of the contact lists, as well as another window to keep each conversation you were wanting to have, meebo went to a one-windowed approach. They used a web technology called AJAX to create all these floating windows inside of your one browser window. Where you had to download either an ActiveX control or Java with plugins for whatever messenger you were wanting to run, as long as you’ve had a browser built within the last 3 years, meebo will work for you. It uses JavaScript and XML, both of which are built into browsers by default, to do everything that it needs to.  Take a look, check it out, and see what you think.  It comes in really handy when you are out on a computer that’s not your own and you need to get onto messengers somehow.

Let me know how it goes.