Meebo Onyx and Updates
Posted on August 19, 2007
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Have you seen the “new” Meebo onyx skin yet? It’s pretty cool! I guess it was announced about a month ago — I’m a bit behind, it would seem.
Although I was a Meebo fanatic for quite some time (past mentions), I’ve drifted away from it these last few months — mainly because I can’t use it at the office anymore. Our firewall there now has two load-balanced connections to the Internet and Meebo is, to my knowledge, the only app around that can’t handle that.
Thus, I’ve been using Pidgin at work. And since I use Pidgin at work on my laptop, I’ve been using it at home on my laptop as well. Habit, I suppose.
Lately, however, I’ve been having some connectivity issues with the MeeboMe/Pidgin integration (mentioned here a couple months ago). Sometimes, in mid-chat, it would disconnect me and leave the person I’m chatting with feeling a bit distressed. Because of that, I’ve been spending more time using Meebo when at home.
And there you go; the long winded reason why I finally noticed the lovely onyx skin today. Here’s a taste:
I’m still not really digging the Meebo Rooms thing though. “Teen Love”, “Hot Teen Party Chat”, “Romantic Kiss” would tend to suggest to me that meebo wasn’t targeting adults with these things.
Tags: im, meebo, Pidgin, rooms
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Have you seen the iPhone version of Meebo? It’s wonderful and works really well.
Hey Michael,
I’ve just seen pictures (so far I’ve held an iPhone for about 10 minutes). The screenshots are very nice though — if I was an iPhone user, I’d definitely be all over it.
BTW, have you tried Mundu? Have been hearing about that one lately (in TechCrunch, etc.)
Until this moment, I’d never even heard of Mundo before. Looks interesting — think people will pay (not much, $11?) for that instead of using the meebo offering?
Hm, this looks very good. I may have to try it out if you like it so much. I’ve used trillian in the past.
I have been using it rarely from the day meebo was started but you know, it somehow lacks originality,
there are many web based IMs but most of them are somewhat not like:D like opera, it had tabs long before firefox but could not take off…
Hi Jane, thanks for stopping by. By all means, give meebo a shot. It won’t cost anything and there’s nothing to install
Glad to know that I’m not the only one that can’t Meebo at work
the concept is good to me as i can technically chat with my blog readers when i place my meebo in my blog, but being a horribly outdated dial-up user it’s so pointless for me to have it in my blog because i’m forever not able to connect to that damn thing despite being online. -_- i much prefer a chat box in this context.
Good point, “adidas” - dial-up kind of negates the usefulness of something like MeeboMe!