Meebo - The Ultimate Online Chat

meebo.com is a website for instant messaging from absolutely anywhere. Whether you’re at home, on campus, at work, or traveling foreign lands, hop over to meebo.com on any computer to access all of your buddies (AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber) and chat with them, no downloads or installs required, for free!

For those where company and school firewalls prevent employees and students from access chat, this is a bad news for them. On May 19, 2006, Meebo released Meebo repeater, a tool which allows users to set up their own proxies for accessing the Meebo service on a Windows PC. As a result many schools and companies have blocked access to that page; however most businesses and schools do not block traffic on port 443 (HTTPS), which uses SSL/TSL cryptographic protocol, as a result it is still possible to connect to the service.

Meebo allows some people who are behind firewalled networks (networks that block the various instant messaging protocols but have not blocked the meebo.com domain name) to connect to instant messaging services due to the fact that the user only connects to port 443 (HTTPS) and the Meebo service itself then connects to the various instant messaging protocols.