Chat live with your visitors - The Meebo way

Meebo.com, a well known Instant Messaging site that offers IM in Yahoo, MSN, AIM, Gtalk, ICQ and Jabber without any downloads. They have launched a new widget for websites and bloggs. This widget enables bloggers and webmasters chat live with the visitors. Take a look at this screenshot.

Its a flash object. It is a small piece of code to be embedded. You need to have a meebo account. Registration is free. Just a Meebo user ID is enough to chat live with the visitors. You need disclose your yahoo or MSN or GTalk ID. This is a great idea. This is the meebo screen when a visitor sent an IM:

It quietly sits inside the browser window. It alerts by flashing the title bar when somebody pings.

Great idea. Well executed.

Get this Widget here.

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How to use instant messengers without downloading them

Are you into a network that doesn't allow you to use Yahoo Messenger software?
Are you not allowed to use MSN Messenger by your corporate firewall?
Problem using AOL Messenger in a Net Cafe?
Is GTalk not availabe (of course, its not) for your MAC?

Then, This post is for you!!

You can use these popular Messenger services without downloading them. Meebo will come handy in these situations.

What is Meebo?

Meebo is a website that helps us use the Popular mesenger services thru Web.

You can login with your ID and password in the forms in the site itself. Simple to use. Additionally, you can register with them to maintain all your IDs of various Messenger services seamlessly. There are many sites around for the same purpose, but I find this site best. This site is existing for quite sometime and has many users registered with them. So, We can believe them.


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How to use Yahoo, MSN and other IMs with multiple IDs at a time

Many of us have integrated Instant Messengers in our life. The first thing we do after logging in to the computer is to login in Yahoo, MSN and other IDs to communicate with our contacts. I personally use Yahoo, MSN, GTalk, AOL and ICQ.

I have more then one ID on each service and I need to login to all the IDs at the same time. Unfortunately, all these services let us login with only one Id at a time. Huh... What is the solution?
That is what I am going to write in this post. :-)
The native clients of these services dont allow us to login in multiple IDs simultaneously. So, we need to get third party client softwares to accomplish the task. I am going to explain the very popular IM Client - Trillian.

Trillian is very popular among the IT pros. Its very simple to use, yet very powerful. Here is a step-by-step method to use Trillian:

1. Download Trillian:

Trillian comes it two veriety; Paid and Free. Lets use the free version, as it covers most of the features that the paid version has. Here is the download link:

http://www.download.com/Trillian/3000-2150-10047473.html?part=dl-trillian&subj=dl&tag=button

2. Install it:
Installing Trillian is quite an easy task. It doesn't demand any special training.

3. Add connections:

You can add Yahoo, MSN, AIM, ICQ or IRC IDs in Trillian. You can add more than one IDs of these Services.

4. Add contacts:

The contacts that are already added with the IDs are displayed automatically. In addition to that you can add, remove, rename, edit, etc. contacts in Trillian too. The changes you make with the contacts in Trillian will be reflected in Native Clients too. For example, if you delete a contact in one of your yahoo IDs, it will be deleted from your contact list in the Yahoo database itself.

5. Start Messaging:
Thats it. You can start sending messages to any contact as you normally would in Native Clients. Right click on the contact names to see the possible actions with that contact.

Looks great, doesn't it? It has many features like audio chat, group chat, bulk messaging, etc.
Check it out and enjoy!!