Minutes: 5/15/2008 - IM/Chat Widgets
Minutes: 5/15/2008 - IM/Chat Widgets
By Dana | May 15, 2008
Meebo, Plugoo and Hab.la may sound like anime characters but they are actually pretty cool Web widgets which allow users to “talk” to you right from your Website. We will will be having an open discussion about Chat Widgets, sharing our favorites and demonstrating how they work. If you have a favorite that I didn’t mention, feel free to bring it along. If you have it embedded on any of your UCR pages, we would love to see it and hear about your experiences.
These are the different im/chat widgets and services that we demonstrated at the meeting.
Public:
- Meebo
- www.meebo.com
- Make a meebo account and put other accounts into it
- Add meebo Me widget to page
- Monitor from Web
- Meebo rooms
- Bonus Web based IM aggregator
- Hab.la
- http://hab.la
- Sign up for Hab.la
- Add Hab.La to Jabber Client (may require Pro versions)
- Add widget to page
- Plugoo
- www.plugoo.com
- Add widget to page
- Works with any MSN capable client
- Qik, Video streaming with IM
- www.Qik.com
- Here is the demo of Qik on the Nokia N95 Phone:
- Group chat widget
- www.firef.ly
- button on page
- anyone who clicks on the button joins the pages group chat.
Specialized:
- Qwidget
- Library’s chat reference widget (See “Ask a Librarian” link)
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