But it only works with Meebo though, right? Nope.

With a little work, you can setup your desktop IM client to receive MeeboMe messages. I will assume that you are using a multi-network client like Adium, Pidgin, or Trillian. This should work with any IM client that supports XMPP/Jabber.

1. Create a MeeboMe widget and put it on your site
2. Start the process of creating a Jabber (aka XMMP) account.
3. Enter the username as your_meebo_id@meebo.org, the password as your Meebo password. Put meebo.org as the server.
4. Find the option that makes your IM client not prompt to allow people to add you to their buddy list (otherwise you’ll get a request for every pageload on your site pretty much…). In Adium it’s “Presence Subscriptions” under the Options tab of the account configuration (set to “Accept”).
5. Set the port to 5222

That should be it.