Widget Wednesday: Meebo Me
The good people over at Meebo just announced a new service called MeeboMe that lets your visitors chat directly with you on any web page. This isn’t a shoutbox where every visitor can see each other–it’s a direct connection to you, just like an instant messenger. Working together, we built a Meebo widget for WordPress.
If you have a blog on WordPress.com and a widget-ready theme, just go to your Presentation -> Widgets admin page and drop the widget into your sidebar. Then go to meebome.com, get a bit of code and paste it into the widget. Save the changes. As long as you’re logged in at meebo.com, your visitors will be able to chat with you directly!
To kick it off in style, I’ve added the widget to my own blog.
In case your WordPress blog is not hosted on WordPress.com, you can paste the embed code right into a Text widget.
Posted: Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006 at 4:43 pm. Filed in Customization, Features, Widgets, WordPress.com.
Aug 2nd at 5:39 pm
Now that is a killer Widget. Thanx a Million guys!
Aug 2nd at 5:46 pm
Now that is a killer widget. Great work guys! Thanx a Million!
Aug 2nd at 5:47 pm
Nifty!
Aug 2nd at 6:05 pm
omigod… omigod… lemme try it… lemme try it!!
Aug 2nd at 6:12 pm
Whoah mad cool! Thanks!
Aug 2nd at 6:17 pm
Would it be wrong to quote Paris Hilton and just say, “That’s HAWT!”??? There’s just no better way to put it!
Aug 2nd at 6:17 pm
Nice! Anyway, the shoutbox would be appreciated in a future
Aug 2nd at 6:29 pm
That’s wonderful!!!
Aug 2nd at 6:39 pm
Nice, had just heard of Meebo today. Cheers!
Aug 2nd at 6:45 pm
That’s really cool.
I can just imagine all blogs with meebo widgets installed dropping to a standstill as the authors spend more time IMing than writing.
Aug 2nd at 6:51 pm
There’s only one problem with this widget. it tries to connect with every single page view you get. They need to have the default be **OFF** and each visitor must click on the widget for it to try to connect.
Aug 2nd at 7:29 pm
shaZAM!! dat b 2 cool.
Aug 2nd at 7:40 pm
That is awesome !! Good job guys, I think this widget will be very usefull !!
Thx
Aug 2nd at 7:57 pm
Slick widget guys, nice one!
Aug 2nd at 7:58 pm
Mine is better…
http://fileupload.ning.com/dl/?1762483
Aug 2nd at 8:00 pm
And gabbly should be on… not meebo.
cause meebo = crazy.
Aug 2nd at 8:22 pm
A very impressive WP Widget! Good work to the Meebo guys, and the WP Team (as usual).
Aug 2nd at 8:28 pm
this is so amazing. thanks billions
Aug 2nd at 8:41 pm
You guys are great!!!!! Thanks a million.
Aug 2nd at 8:58 pm
btw how do you keep your IM session saved. I keep msgsing myself and getting it everytime i ahve to log on to the meebo area. oh yeah this is amazing…
Aug 2nd at 8:59 pm
Excellent! You guys just keep churning out cooler and cooler stuff. Thanks!
Aug 2nd at 9:08 pm
That is pretty cool!
Thx guys.
Aug 2nd at 9:09 pm
Meebo is great, especially with the Meebo sidebar for Firefox and Flock! This is going to be awesome!
Aug 2nd at 9:42 pm
Wow guys! That is STUNNING! Thanks a lot! I also expect some integration with Odeo and Hellodeo in the future (that would rock!)
Aug 2nd at 10:00 pm
I like it but I don’t know how I feel about allowing clients to put embed tags into a text widget. I though those got stripped out.
Aug 2nd at 11:14 pm
Done! I had it to my blog. Experimentaly… For now I like a lot the desig and the speed is quite good. Let´s see if my readers adopt it.
Aug 2nd at 11:25 pm
oh this widget looks awesome. Ahh praise wordpress…you guys here are always giving us new stuff…totally rocks!
Aug 2nd at 11:32 pm
wow now that’s impressive
Aug 2nd at 11:45 pm
this is so much better than a shoutbox! it’s been a long wait, but certainly worth it. c’est magnifique!
Aug 2nd at 11:51 pm
Aug 3rd at 12:03 am
Oh my…so cool!!!!!!!!!
Aug 3rd at 12:18 am
Great widget. Are bothack and gapp related?
-Zack
Aug 3rd at 12:18 am
fantastic !
thanks
Aug 3rd at 12:36 am
I think it’s pretty dumb that the blog owner has to be logged into Meebo in order to talk to people via Meebo Me.
I’m sitting at home, I have Adium and Psi running for all of my conversations.
Why can’t meebo just see if I’m on, and message ME and run the conversation that way.
Qunu (IIRC, that’s what it’s called) does that just nicely.
I suppose I’m venting in the wrong direction, as I should probably take this ‘feature’ to Meebo, their app, not yours.
Thanks for the widget though, it’s a good idea. Now we just need to kick Meebo into being SMART with their new features.
Aug 3rd at 12:44 am
While Meboo is an awesome addition to a blog I think a shoutbox would still be in order.
Just a suggestion.
Aug 3rd at 12:45 am
thats pretty awesome
Aug 3rd at 2:12 am
you guys are beautiful
Aug 3rd at 5:46 am
la locura esto, WP rulez!
Aug 3rd at 6:17 am
Gabbly is a great chatter box!
Aug 3rd at 7:14 am
yey thanks! …a tagboard/shoutbox would still be useful though :p
Aug 3rd at 7:52 am
Blimey I put that as feedback yesterday! You guys move fast!
Aug 3rd at 8:02 am
Good Widget that! One Q though….do we have to remain Logged in on Meebo all the time? No Offlines?
Aug 3rd at 8:26 am
awesome feature
Aug 3rd at 8:45 am
It’s a great chatting-tool like all other chat messengers, however everytime you refresh the whole page of you blog, it also refreshes the connections and often it got errors. Can we at least choose a pop-up button instead?
Thank you for this but I, too, would prefer a shoutbox. But no, COMMENT BOX is great already.
Aug 3rd at 9:50 am
Meebo madness. This widget is awesome. Thanks guys!
Aug 3rd at 10:27 am
Great work guys! But the Gabbly shoutbox would be better appreciated!
Hope you guys can work towards that!
Aug 3rd at 12:03 pm
Awesomeness indeed!
Aug 3rd at 12:19 pm
The new login page is cool…
Aug 3rd at 12:21 pm
This is so way darn cool! Another excellent widget service!! Way to go to everyone who’s been working ever so hard on this!
Aug 3rd at 4:47 pm
Would be nice if Meebo actually worked. I’m on a solid cable connection and it keeps disconnecting me. Plus, people trying to message me are lost somewhere on their own and their messages never show up. Been through Meebo’s help section and didn’t find any answers. Great idea for a widget, but a better functioning one would definitely be a plus.
Aug 3rd at 5:11 pm
The best widget so far.
Aug 3rd at 7:13 pm
I wish I could see something other than a broken Quicktime link/image. So much for that idea.
Aug 3rd at 9:57 pm
Anyone know how to control the space between meebo widget and its neighboring widgets in the sidebar? Right now, if I add meebo in there, it is shown directly on top of my next section in the sidebar with no space in between, and it looks ugly.
Aug 4th at 1:28 am
I think I’d rather have a short spree of comment conversations than an actual one with a reader.
Aug 4th at 1:46 am
IE users…go to meebo.com first to register, then meebome.com to get the code.
Thanks for the GREAT widget!
Aug 4th at 2:19 am
Thanks for this great widget! You guys rock!
Aug 4th at 7:14 am
Hey I now have a Meebo….two minutes ago i didn’t even know what a Meebo is..
whooohooo Meebo!!!
Go meebo..go meebo…mee..mee ..bo boo!!
Aug 4th at 7:22 am
Great Job. I like it better than a shout box. Thanks
Aug 4th at 10:08 am
One of the best tools yet! Keep ‘em coming!
Aug 4th at 11:02 am
Unbelievable. I’m speechless.
Aug 4th at 11:01 pm
I’m going ahead and removing Meemo from my websites. I attempted to file a fairly serious bug report with their team today and it was met with some rather insulting comments from their unoffical support staff. I can not support a product or company that does such a thing and I’m going to encourage others to do so likewise.
Matt and crew, please forgive me for making such a statement but I can not allow this to go by me. I can not support such a product that goes on about how they want and encourage community support but hold such report in so little regard.
Thank you for your time,
-drmike
Aug 7th at 4:31 pm
drmike, can you send me a URL of your bug report? I would be curious to read it.
here is my take on meebome: http://snimmer.wordpress.com
Sep 6th at 5:17 pm
and I just noticed this
off to try it out.
Jan 28th at 2:52 am
this thing is real convenient
Jun 26th at 2:49 am
Thank thousands of billion
Now my blog seems more attractive with my friends