Category: Electronic Reference
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Meebo Alert for Firefox
Yet another reason to use Firefox – Aaron just pointed out that there’s a new plug-in for Firefox and Meebo that will really help with the alerts – you still have to have Meebo open in a tab, or a sidebar, but you no longer have to have that tab in the foreground for fear…
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Meebo Widgets – Trouble in Paradise
So I’ve recently noticed that our Meebo Widgets are not correctly showing our status for our reference service; they almost always display that we’re offline even when we’re logged in. Looks from the support forums like we’re not the only ones, and it’s frustrating that nobody from Meebo is chiming in to offer a solution. …
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Trillian coming to the Mac
The Cerulean Studios blog reports that they’re going to be bringing Trillian Astra to OSX. Technorati Tags: Trillian, OSX, Reference, IM
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IM Reference launches at the U of Calgary
Yesterday we soft-launched our IM reference service here at the U of Calgary. We’re using Meebo to handle all our accounts, and also chose it for the ability to use the MeeboMe widgets. Back when I did my screencasting seminar for the SirsiDynix Institute, Sarah Houghton-Jan asked a question that really stuck with me; “can…
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Meebo does file transfer
I haven’t heard of any libraries making use (or wishing they could) of file transfer over meebo, but it could be useful to push a subject guide or something. Meebo just announced they now support file transfer between the different networks. Technorati Tags: Meebo
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Accessing MeeboMe Widgets in Pidgin
Chad Boeninger has a comprehensive post at Library Voice describing how to view your MeeboMe widgets while using Pidgin (formerly GAIM), thus obviating the need to have Meebo open in a website at all. I haven’t tried Pidgin in a long time, but would LOVE not to have to have a web page open in…
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WIMZI – AIM anonymous chat widget (like MeeboMe)
If for some reason you wanted to have a single-platform embedded widget to allow users to talk to your AIM account, you now have WIMZI, which is exactly like MeeboMe, except it only connects to AIM. Technorati Tags: IM, AIM, WIMZI, Meebo
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Trillian Astra to include web option
One of the nicest features of Meebo is that it can be used w/o any installation – if you’ve got access to the web you can use it. One of the nicest features of Trillian is that it also includes Google Talk in its stable. I just saw this video of the upcoming release (no…
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Web-based IM – More than just Meebo
Meebo certainly seems to be the weapon of choice, at least amongst libraries, but did you realize there are other web-based IM options out there? Robin Good provides details on a cool dozen in his post, Web-Based Instant Messengers: A Mini-Guide. Don’t want to Meebo, why not Snimmer or Mabber? (the names aren’t all that…