[UPDATE - I put the chat room over on the side, just to see what, if anything, will happen if our readers can talk to each other. Lawsuits here we come!]
We talked about Meebo quite a while ago. They’re essentially a web-based IM client that supports a number of protocols including AIM and MSN. Well, they’ve just started offering embeddded rooms for websites like the one above. We’re going to hide this one here in case we need it for keynotes or breaking news but feel free to idle in it like it was 1998. While this isn’t very new or special, you can, potentially, place this same chatroom on your homepage and constantly be in contact with the CG team at any time, day or night. How about them apples?
I use meebo every day at work, because I don’t like trillian. And it’s nice and clean, just randomly disconnects me every now and then though..
I have had a meebo account now for about a month. I have not really utilized it yet. This does seem like an interesting feature and could be used in the Real Estate field.
for anyone interested, the chatroom works great in AnyFlash gadget for igoogle.
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the iframe gadgets combined the texts plus the “joined and left” guests (that got effin’ annoying)
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jb, i really dig the idea, i kinda think it’s a bit too much going on though (as the smiley-freaking-faces ad keep scrolling). plus it appears a page refresh causes a leave and new join, correct? i like it, keep it, but on it’s own page…