Information Addicts

Most of us use more than one instant messaging client to chat and keep in touch with our friends and loved ones.
What I find most annoying is having multiple windows open for each client program and having to logon to each one of them.
Also if you travel or you are at work and use a PC it is very difficult or impossible to access them as most IM clients have to be installed on the PC.

This is were Meebo comes into its own because it doesn’t have to be installed, meaning that you can access your chats on any PC anywhere in the world with a compatible Web browser, (the app works with IE 5x, 6x and 7x, Firefox and Safari).
It’s very easy to set up, all you have to do is create an account, don’t worry as your information will not be used for any other purposes, then logon with the username and password that you created. This then allows you to use AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ and Jabber all at once if you wish.

Meebo has become vey popular, with users exchanging over 80 million instant messages daily. In addition, Meebo has been named to the following lists:
-Time’s Top 50 Coolest Websites for 2006
-PC World’s The 100 Best Products of 2006
-PC World’s The 100 Best Products of 2007
-Top 100 Webware sites for 2007

If you are wondering how secure Meebo is, then this Web 2.0 Ajax application encrypts log-in passwords using JavaScript, decrypting the server side with OpenSSL.
Now you can use Meebo within Firefox using this plugin, or you can even use it within Netvibes.
Head on over to Meebo and give it a try.
Happy chatting.

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