AOL has launched Wimzi, a widget for your website or blog which allows you to chat with your website visitors.
You just require the AIM screen name and you can go ahead and configure the widget for your blog and interact with the visitors without letting them know your AIM screen name.
Currently, this space has already been captured by MeeboMe, a similar widget which was created by Meebo however, the competition will get tough for Meebo as AOL has a bigger user base and AIM being the most popular service by AOL is directly linked with this widget.
If you don’t love to put a widget like that but want to show your visitors that you are online @ AIM then you can use AIM Presence and show off your status on AIM.
I really don’t see any use of this kind of widget. For a blog, the best way of communication is its comments and so I would not like to put such a widget and then keep myself busy all the time in replying to all the chat messages from the visitors, I’ll rather love to keep it interactive through the comments. Well, I think that these kind of widgets will work only on the personal websites, where you mostly get your family members or friends as your visitors. What do you think, widgets like MeeboMe or AIM will help or are they not useful at all ?
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It doesn’t surprise me , this kind of apps seem to be launching more and more often lately . They seem to work best amongst people with either too much free time on their hands either amongst bloggers who use them to microblog .
That’s right calling it a time waster will be a better thing. I think it adds on functionality but can be called as just a show off widget!
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I really liked widget of google talk. I think it is really helpful to interact live with client in a website.