I’ve been a bog fan of Meebo, and I’ve blogged about it before. It allows you to connect to multiple instant messaging systems through a web browser. Nothing to install! This map shows where people are using Meebo in the last 15 minutes. It updates every 15 minutes, so you can come back and check later.
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I’ve been a big fan of Meebo for quite some time. It allows you to access several Instant Messaging services through a web browser. The New York Times has a great article about Internet start-ups, and Meebo is prominently mentioned. 
Start Slide Show with PicLens LiteWhen Seth J. Sternberg and two colleagues started Meebo, a Web-based instant-messaging service, they didn’t go looking for venture capitalists. Using their credit cards, they financed the company themselves to the tune of $2,000 apiece. It was enough to cover their biggest expense — leasing a few computer servers at $120 a month each.
Within a month of its introduction in September 2005, Meebo was getting as many as 50,000 log-ins a day, and it needed more servers. It decided to take a modest $100,000 from three angel investors, wealthy individuals who typically contribute small amounts but do not get involved in management decisions.
Eventually, Meebo did raise money from venture investors — about $3.5 million from Sequoia Capital. But that was after the company was well on its way to showing that its service was a hit; Meebo had about 200,000 daily log-ins.
More good stuff from Google.
Online search engine leader Google Inc. is wedding its instant messaging and e-mail services in the same Web browser, hoping the convenience will lure users from the larger communications networks operated by its chief rivals.
The new chat feature to be unveiled Tuesday will provide users of Google’s Gmail service with a list of contacts drawn from past e-mail exchanges and then signal who’s available for online conversations.
Google hopes to make it even simpler to connect with an online contact by allowing users to initiate an electronic conversation within the same Web browser showing an e-mailbox, bypassing the need to switch to a separate instant messaging application.
I just started using this, and it’s pretty cool so far.
Gtalkr allows you to go anywhere, to any computer, and have access to your Google
Talk account.
I know I’ve posted about this on one of my previous blogs, but it deserves a repeat. Meebo is a site where you can chat using Yahoo Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, GTalk, ICQ, or MSN.
You don’t have to install anything!! Schools with computer labs should recommend this so that the students won’t keep trying to install these programs.
