Oh yes, I do love playing the role of irresponsible tech anarchist. Does your IT manager frown on the use of instant messaging at work and block it at the firewall? Or are you sitting in an internet cafe, public terminal in a library, or someone’s else’s computer and they don’t have your favorite IM client installed? If any of these circumstances apply to you, chances are you’ll take to meebo, an ajax-powered, web-based instant messaging platform that supports AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber and MSN. Free, simple to use, relatively bug free and a really nice interface. Not much more you could ask for. Just make sure you’re using a modern, standards compliant browser, firefox being the best choice.