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Virtual Reference & IM
1:43 PM EDT 5/24/06
I have not used either of these personally, but I thought I would forward as they might be of potential interest. These are websites from which you or your patrons can access multiple IM clients without downloading any additional software. Please note the "alpha" status of meebo.

meebo (alpha) -- http://www.meebo.com/

Originally seen in the "Product Pipeline" by Aaron Schmidt under the section "Ultimate IM" in the Winter 2006 netconnect (available in INSPIRE -- MasterFILE Premier Accession Number - 19432689)


Another possibility is emessenger -- http://www.e-messenger.net/


AOL's Instant Messenger also has a web-based interface called AIM Express -- http://www.aim.com/get_aim/express/aim_expr.adp
Re: Virtual Reference & IM
2:46 PM EDT 5/24/06 as a reply to Ross Riker.
Most all of the major instant messengers have web-based interfaces. As long as you have Java installed they should work fine.

Here are the links for the "big guys". emoticon

https://my.screenname.aol.com/_cqr/login/login.psp?mcState=initialized&siteId=ae40_prod_aim&seamless=novl

http://login.yahoo.com/config/login_verify2?.src=pg&.done=http://messenger.yahoo.com/webmsgr/launcher.php?back=http://messenger.yahoo.com/

http://www.icq.com/download/icq2go/

I haven't found a web-based interface for MSN Messenger. I'd be interested to know if anyone else has. emoticon
Re: Virtual Reference & IM
4:28 PM EDT 5/24/06 as a reply to Michael Stanaland.
i use Meebo.com a lot and it includes MSN messenger emoticon
Re: Virtual Reference & IM
11:11 AM EST 12/8/06 as a reply to Brenda Hough.
This datapoint seems important: http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/759132/poll_iming_divides_teens_adults/index.html

Almost half of teens, 48 percent of those ages 13-18, use instant messaging, according to the poll. That's more than twice the percentage of adults who use it.

According to the AP-AOL poll:

- Almost three-fourths of adults who do use instant messages still communicate with e-mail more often. Almost three-fourths of teens send instant messages more than e-mail.

- More than half of the teens who use instant messages send more than 25 a day, and one in five send more than 100. Three-fourths of adult users send fewer than 25 instant messages a day.

- Teen users (30 percent) are almost twice as likely as adults (17 percent) to say they can't imagine life without instant messaging.

- When keeping up with a friend who is far away, teens are most likely to use instant messaging, while adults turn first to e-mail.

- About a fifth of teen IM users have used IM to ask for or accept a date. Almost that many, 16 percent, have used it to break up with someone.
Re: Virtual Reference & IM
12:39 PM EST 2/21/07 as a reply to Ross Riker.
Not sure if this would work well for VR, but it could work well for other related applications. It certainly is rather simple to set up / use and the price is right ;-)


Article: "Yaplet: Simple and easy chat on any site"
By Josh Lowensohn – February 19, 2007 --
http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9688136-2.html?tag=nl.e501

From the article:

"Yaplet is a simple idea: Add anonymous, no-registration chat to any Web site. Yaplet is a browser sidebar that can also be popped out as its own browser window. Each site is given its own chat room, and Yaplet caches site conversations for you or others to view, even when no one else is there."

Yaplet: http://www.yaplet.com/
Re: Virtual Reference & IM
10:31 AM EDT 3/17/07 as a reply to Ross Riker.
"New browser-free Web version of Trillian is coming"
By Rafe Needleman – March 9, 2007, 5:13 PM PST

http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9696109-2.html
Re: Virtual Reference & IM
11:58 AM EDT 3/23/07 as a reply to Ross Riker.
Yay! A web version of Trillian is very welcome - great from patron perspective, too (no need to install anything on public access machines).

And now that we've got Instant Messaging down, it's time to think about text messaging from our cell phones with patrons emoticon Jenny Levine, the Shifted Librarian, shared this example from the Orange County Lib System in Florida - http://www.ocls.info/xplor/default.asp?bhcp=1http%3A//

Brenda
Re: Virtual Reference & IM
2:24 PM EDT 5/7/07 as a reply to Ross Riker.
Yahoo has added a web-based version of its messenger service:

http://webmessenger.yahoo.com/


Seen in "Yahoo Messenger is now Webware" By Rafe Needleman:

http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9715635-2.html


Also, here is MSN's web-based version (AOL and meebo are mentioned in the other posts):

http://webmessenger.msn.com/
Re: Virtual Reference & IM
12:21 PM EDT 9/20/07 as a reply to Ross Riker.
Again, I have not used this personally, but I read about it here:

"Hands-on: AirTalkr does install-free IM"
By Josh Lowensohn – September 13, 2007:

http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9777991-2.html

The website, FAQ, and web-based versions are here, respectively:

http://airtalkr.com/

http://airtalkr.com/faq.htm

http://airtalkr.com/im/