Social chatting with the AIM Wimzi

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Social chatting with the AIM Wimzi

by Chris Gilmer Jun 29th 2007

AOL has released a new way for people to chat through social networking pages or websites.

This new chat widget is called the AIM Wimzi. By placing the Wimzi widget on a blog, social network page, or any other website, users can instantly chat with you when you are online with AIM. The bonus here is that your AIM name remains private, but you are able to chat with anyone. Widget names, display name, size and color can all be customized to make the widget fit in, or stand out wherever you place it. Placing it is simple through a quick copy and past of html, or flash embed code.

Other players in the widgets for websites and social site chatting space are Meebome and Geesee.

Tags: aim, aol, chat, social network, SocialNetwork, talk, website, wimzi

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Jabapyth said 11:35PM on 6-29-2007

what a rip of meebo

cherie yannone said 11:50AM on 6-30-2007

The widget works beautifully. Easy to configure, if not a tad limited in choices. Installs easily. Works great inside Blogger. The online-away message is instantaneous. Overall - sweet.

davejeyes said 2:25PM on 8-02-2007

It's pretty easy to configure, but the alignment is screwy. If you center your WimZi, you also center the text in the dialog box. That's just awkward. Any help?
Cheers,
Dave J
http://www.aolworkstyles.com

davejeyes said 2:58PM on 8-02-2007

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