Meebo and Google Talk with Google Apps
Posted on June 24, 2008
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Many moons ago I tried to use my hosted Google ID (via Google Apps) with meebo and had no success. At the time, I just shrugged and moved on — my regular Google Talk ID was working fine.
Since then, I’ve standardized the office on Google Talk[1]. I have other IM clients I like and use at work, but sometimes at home it’s nice to be available for work IM. When running Windows I’ve lately been gravitating to Digsby[2] but when dabbling with Linux I usually fall-back to meebo.
Tonight I decided to figure out how to get meebo working with my Google Apps account. Turned out to be very trivial. In fact, the meebo folks have it documented in a wiki on the FAQ & Troubleshooting page. From there I learned that the Google Apps help site has a page as well. Who knew?
All I had to do was create a handful of SRV DNS records and 3 minutes later I had the account added and working in meebo.
I love it. I was expecting a long and challenging battle and was done in 5 minutes 
[1] See Virus’d — The Follow-up for details on the banning of other IM protocols.
[2] More at I’m Digging Digsby
Tags: DNS, google-apps, google-talk, im, meebo
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I love Google Talk. Now that they support AIM, I have even more reasons to use it. Great post by the way.