meebo

Meebo has grown from a simple website to an IM platform. Their main product is of course Meebo.com. When you first get to the site you can easily login to one or all of the following IM services: AIM, Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, Windows Live Messenger, ICQ and Jabber. Users are also given the option to login with their Meebo account. With a Meebo account users have access to all of their instant messaging accounts with a single sign-on, and all contacts across all networks can be seen in a single list.

Once logged-in, Meebo almost feels like a desktop client due to its use of Ajax. You can drag and drop the message boxes around the screen. And the core functionality (making IM more useful and easy to use) is quite nice.

Meebo Rooms is Meebo’s version of the chat room. It has some nice features including the ability to be embedded into a website and if anyone adds a link to media, say a YouTube video, the video is automatically embedded into the chat for users to view/hear. Meebo has partnered with a number of companies to offer branded Meebo Rooms. For example, there is a “Flixster’s Top Trailers” room where users can watch the top trailers from Flixster and chat about them at the same time.

Meebo users also have access to Meebo Me, an embeddable widget which puts an IM window onto any personal webpage. It lets you chat with your site visitors in real-time from Meebo.com.

Meebo has also worked on a few side projects. Go Meebo! encourages the community to spread the word about their beloved Meebo, Meebo Map shows approximately where IMs have been sent or received through Meebo in the past 15 minutes, and Meebo Repeater helps people access Meebo safely where access is restricted.