Instant Messaging Site Meebo Adds Facebook Chat
For Internet users whose instant messaging proclivities span numerous systems -– AOL’s AIM, Yahoo Messenger and Microsoft Messenger, for example -– Meebo is a hugely useful tool.
Since 2005, the Mountain View, Calif., company has let people log into multiple messaging systems at the same time from within a Web browser. It’s much easier than opening up the desktop software programs of several IM systems and logging into them all at once.
Today, Meebo is getting even more useful, adding the popular Facebook Chat to the list of instant messaging systems it supports. Meebo tried this before, in December, without asking for a little thing called “permission.” Facebook promptly asked the company to desist, citing security reasons, and to redesign the service using a tool called Facebook Connect, which Meebo now has.
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