Hello Meebo! This is an impressive little web application I came across this week. From the about page, it is a team of young and talented individuals that has combined AJAX coding and Web2.0 design principles to create a useful application. For people in a more corporate environment (like me) where there is specific technology in place to block access to desktop IM clients, Meebo is particularly attractive, as there is nothing to download.

As you can see from the screen shot, the site is still in alpha, and there a few annoyances that still need to be worked out (i.e. the site hasn’t yet implemented cookies to remember the passwords - typing in 4 username and password combos is a bit of a pain in the butt), but I will definitely be keeping an eye on this over the next few months. I will be impressed if they are able to get some of the advanced functionality of these IM clients working over a simple web application (i.e. getting the voice part of GTalk working, or hooking into cell phones). Also, because it is a web application, as they add new functionality I like the fact that I won’t be needing to update a downloaded client - it will just work.

Hopefully some fun functionality will be built in over the next few months, but for now I’ll be content just to IM with friends from work!