Online chat has become more and more popular these days. With the many Instant Messaging (IM) software that we have today, chatting has become easier. Now how can we integrate that into our website? Chatting with our web visitors? Now that’s interesting. How can we make that work so that it’s convenient for us? Fortunately for us, there’s Plugoo.
Plugoo is a web2.0 embeddable flash online instant messaging widget. Plugoo allows you to have a direct chat from your Instant Messenger (IM) software (Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, AIM, GoogleTalk, Jabber or ICQ) with any visitor of your blog or personal website without having them install anything. All they have to do is use your Plugoo IM widget in your site. Signing up with Plugoo is very simple. Just choose any type of IM that you usually use, type in your Instant Messaging Account username, provide an email address (can be any email addresses), type in any password for your Plugoo account (not your IM password), and validate the email from your email account. You can then personalize your IM from your Plugoo account. You can change colors, title of your Plugoo, and visitors can choose your own nickname. A code will then be generated so you can use it to embed it in any site / account that you have. Try out our widget on the right!
Overall, Plugoo offers a unique and an easy way to get in touch with you from your blog or website. It’s cool to have a media to chat with your visitors, and even cooler doing so with the IM software you are using everyday. WorldTechLogic has posted several online chat service before, MeeboMe, AliTalk, Interaction, Snimmer, RadiusIM, Lingr, Zoho Chat, E-Buddy and Imeem, but only MeeboMe has the same embeddable capability of Plugoo. Most of the online chat mentioned above have cross IM capability, but no embeddable widget. However, compare to MeeboMe, Plugoo has the advantage of using the IM software that we’re already using, while MeeboMe doesn’t.
For its convenience and with its ability to chat with visitors from the IM software that we are already using, along with its embeddable widget, clearly, Plugoo is the best online chat widget we’ve seen so far.
