Meebone beta brings Meebo to your desktop

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Meebone beta brings Meebo to your desktop

by Danny Mendez Jul 11th 2008

It may seem illogical to tie Meebo to a desktop app, but that's exactly what's going on here. Meebone uses Adobe AIR to bring Meebo's services to your desktop through a dedicated app, but it's still in beta. So if you're down to try it, keep in mind that you'll probably encounter some problems... just like we did.

When attempting to login to AIM, Meebone was confused by a space in one of our user names. Other IM clients and services -- even Meebo itself -- aren't usually bothered by spaces. But that was our only major issue with the AIR-based app. And we're hoping it will be fixed before Meebone graduates from beta.

We tested the app with Google Talk and AIM accounts. Each logged-in successfully, brought up buddy lists, etc, etc. In other words, it introduced a basic Meebo set-up to our desktop, and we liked it. Just barely, but we did like it even though it sort of defeats the purpose of Meebo itself.

[via Adobe Air Marketplace]

Tags: adobe, AIR, desktop, IM, instant message, InstantMessage, Meebo, Meebone

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

LeeH said 11:48AM on 7-11-2008

So at first IRC was only available on the command line, and then there were desktop apps which made it easier to use, and then there was Meebo which made the desktop interface more portable, and now there's a desktop version of Meebo which uh ... well, I'm not sure what it does, but I, for one, can't wait until there's a command line version of the Meebo desktop app.

ezra said 6:35PM on 7-12-2008

LOL, it may be *very* useful in organizations where desktop chat clients are blocked and employees resort to web clients like meebo. I personally dont fancy chatting via a web-based client so if that functionality can be brought back to the desktop... i would jump at it.

supernova_hq said 5:11AM on 7-14-2008

What about centericq, where does that get classified?

hnkelley said 7:56PM on 7-15-2008

This could be pretty cool. We might be adopting Meebo as a way for some of our staff to connect with our patrons since it gives us all of our IM IDs (I've set us up with most of that majors). But I get a little bummed that you MUST leave that page open, so having this on the desktop could be a bonus, especially when a staffer gets bored and surfs away from meebo... disconnecting from it.

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