Use Yahoo, MSN Messenger & Gtalk without the software

Over the past month, I’ve had trouble going to internet parlours to check my mail and use the instant messenger. What was more annoying is the fact that most of them did not have the IM’s I used and if I installed any, it would be removed after reboot !

Thats when I remembered that about 10 years ago we used Yahoo chat through the web with no software. Looks like they still have that option.

To use the web version of Yahoo Messenger, just visit http://webmessenger.yahoo.com/ and sign in with your username and password. Its as simple as that, no need to install any software. There is a disadvantage to this method, you cannot use voice calls with the webmessenger.

MSN Messenger can be accessed at http://webmessenger.msn.com/ and is similar to the Yahoo web messenger.

Gtalk is another commonly used IM client due to the popularity of Orkut. The GTalk web messenger can be accessed at http://talkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/popout
Firefox users can install a small addon (3kb) to have Gtalk show as a firefox sidebar without the need to install the whole program. Once the addon is installed, just press Alt+G to show the Gtalk sidebar in Firefox. The addon can be installed from here.

There you go all the popular IM without installing any software, this could prove useful in schools and offices where installing programs is not allowed. Have fun…

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http://www.meebo.com/ has all you need as well. Cheers, Gavin

Comment by Gavin on March 12, 2008 @ 1:01 pm

Thanks for the comment Gavin, 3rd party solution to this has already been posted on this blog before, like iloveim.com, etc

This was just an update with the real web messengers provided by those companies….

Comment by Alfred on March 13, 2008 @ 1:21 am

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