Meebo: Cool Web Messenger!

Put together on July 10, 2007 4:43 pm by Thomas
What do you think?

My job often takes me to strange and mysterious places. Most of these places tend to exist behind some company’s strict firewall, which has the nasty habit of restricting my communication with the outside world. The typical workaround that I’ve found are the web messengers.

The MSN web messenger sucks, big time. It’s typical of Microsoft to create a product and then let it die a slow death when it’s not making lots of money from it and there’s not too much competition around. However, they will need to bother pretty soon, as there seems to be a growing list of web messengers which support MSN accounts. My choice was Meebo.

I could instantly tell by the name that this was a Web 2.0 site. Small, easy to remember and makes you think of lava lamps (maybe that’s just me). It’s very simple, impressively lightweight, very stable, with plain functionality (no file exchange), supports lots of IM protocols and gets the job done. I’d like to stress the “lightweight” part. Nowadays I get the impression that all Web 2.0 apps are doing their best to make Firefox use up all my laptop’s memory. Meebo is a nice exception to this.

I’d suggest you give it a try even if you have MSN Messenger in your PCs. It’s pretty cool.

Update: I’ve been using Meebo non-stop the last couple of weeks and I have to say I’m very impressed. More to follow.

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