Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Meebo and Talkr

I've just given Meebo and Talkr a run through and don't really recommend either.
Meebo is a widget one can place on a blog or web site which allows visitors to talk to you and others in the 'room'. Trouble is you have to be connected to Meebo and stay on Meebo's page in order for you to be online on your web site or blog. You can use Google Talk, AIM, MSN or Yahoo.
It's a bit like other products which have proved a little useless. Maybe Sitepal is better.
You need to be able to be offline for people to still message you. Meebo doesn't allow that.

Talkr sounds like a good idea. It says it will reproduce the feed on your web site or blog into a podcast. That sounds useful, but I found it difficult to configure. Blogspot ( this sort of blog) doesn't allow for its automatic configuration. One has to add css selectors for widgets and so on in the right palce in the template. If you can do that it might be useful.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi there,
I'd recommend to give Odiogo's Listen Button a try. We provide with integration tools for Blogger.

Best,
Bob

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