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.
- August 2, 2006
- Customization, Features, Widgets, WordPress.com
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Now that is a killer Widget. Thanx a Million guys!
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Now that is a killer widget. Great work guys! Thanx a Million!
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Nifty!
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omigod… omigod… lemme try it… lemme try it!!
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Whoah mad cool! Thanks!
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Would it be wrong to quote Paris Hilton and just say, “That’s HAWT!”??? There’s just no better way to put it!
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Nice! Anyway, the shoutbox would be appreciated in a future 😛
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That’s wonderful!!!
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Nice, had just heard of Meebo today. Cheers!
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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.
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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.
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shaZAM!! dat b 2 cool.
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That is awesome !! Good job guys, I think this widget will be very usefull !!
Thx
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Slick widget guys, nice one!
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Mine is better…
http://fileupload.ning.com/dl/?1762483
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And gabbly should be on… not meebo.
cause meebo = crazy.
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A very impressive WP Widget! Good work to the Meebo guys, and the WP Team (as usual).
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this is so amazing. thanks billions
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You guys are great!!!!! Thanks a million.
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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…
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Excellent! You guys just keep churning out cooler and cooler stuff. Thanks!
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That is pretty cool!
Thx guys.
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Meebo is great, especially with the Meebo sidebar for Firefox and Flock! This is going to be awesome!
😎
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Wow guys! That is STUNNING! Thanks a lot! I also expect some integration with Odeo and Hellodeo in the future (that would rock!)
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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.
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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.
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oh this widget looks awesome. Ahh praise wordpress…you guys here are always giving us new stuff…totally rocks!
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wow now that’s impressive
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this is so much better than a shoutbox! it’s been a long wait, but certainly worth it. c’est magnifique!
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😮 Very neat. I like it.
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Oh my…so cool!!!!!!!!!
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Great widget. Are bothack and gapp related?
-Zack
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fantastic !
thanks
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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.
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While Meboo is an awesome addition to a blog I think a shoutbox would still be in order. 🙂 Just a suggestion.
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thats pretty awesome
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you guys are beautiful
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la locura esto, WP rulez!
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Gabbly is a great chatter box!
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yey thanks! …a tagboard/shoutbox would still be useful though :p
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Blimey I put that as feedback yesterday! You guys move fast!
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Good Widget that! One Q though….do we have to remain Logged in on Meebo all the time? No Offlines?
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awesome feature
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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.
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Meebo madness. This widget is awesome. Thanks guys!
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Great work guys! But the Gabbly shoutbox would be better appreciated!
Hope you guys can work towards that!
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Awesomeness indeed!
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The new login page is cool… 🙂
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This is so way darn cool! Another excellent widget service!! Way to go to everyone who’s been working ever so hard on this!
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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.
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The best widget so far.
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I wish I could see something other than a broken Quicktime link/image. So much for that idea.
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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.
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I think I’d rather have a short spree of comment conversations than an actual one with a reader.
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IE users…go to meebo.com first to register, then meebome.com to get the code.
Thanks for the GREAT widget!
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Thanks for this great widget! You guys rock!
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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!! 🙂
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Great Job. I like it better than a shout box. Thanks
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One of the best tools yet! Keep ’em coming!
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Unbelievable. I’m speechless.
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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
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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
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and I just noticed this 😛 off to try it out.
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this thing is real convenient 😛
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Thank thousands of billion
Now my blog seems more attractive with my friends
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