I ran across an interesting site today called meebo. Ok, maybe I’m the last person in the world to have found this site, but what it does is enable you to use your instant messengers (AOL, Yahoo!, ICQ, MSN, etc) from inside a web page (I guess it’s using AJAX and some other goodies to accomplish this). What does it mean? It means that if you’re in a place with a serious firewall keeping you from chatting it up with your friends, you’re in good shape if you can just get to this page with your web browser. And it just works (plus the interface is rather nice).

So, if you’re in need of a web-based instant messaging client, check out www.meebo.com.