Web based Chat and Location Chat

Aha, something close to my heart. The movement of applications from desktop to web. It was probably inevitable that in the end the chat function also made its move to be a browser accessed service. Although it has yet to displace desktop clients, that day is probably not far away. The question is what are the advantages offered by such browser based services. Well they can be accessed from anyware there is internet without having that particular client installed. You only need your username in that service. this can be a big plus if you access internet from places were you have no say in software installation, and it is also just hassle free. Another great thing about these is they have multi-protocol support, so one web page and you get all your services. So what are the drawbacks? Well……………………….

Let’s look at some of the most popular web based clients. The most popular is meebo, which support AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Jabber, GoogleTalk and meebo’s own client. There are few more of those

1. RadiusIM
2. KoolIM
3. Imhaha
4. ebuddy
5. ILoveIM

Of these ebuddy and ILoveIm does not allow login to multiple clients at once but others do.

These are very easy to use and needs no explanation.

Another point that is very important regarding Instant messaging is the location based chatting. The normal chat allows you to have a buddy list and you are allowed communication only between your buddies. But location based chat will connect people around a same location depending on the information you provide. You can decide with what area you want to belong to. An example of this is the already mentioned RadiusIm and Meetro. While RadiusIm is web based, Meetro is a downloadable application.