I’ve noticed AOL IM taking up way too much memory on my system, so I
decided to give Meebo a
try.  At first it felt weird for something as fundamental as
IM to move into the browser.  There was a lot that I missed,
like having the prominent blinking taskbar whenever a new message
appeared.

But after a few days I must say I really
enjoy Meebo!  I realize now what a non-issue the blinking
windows thing is.  I much prefer the more subtle “changing
browser title” that Meebo uses.  Its less disruptive than a
flashing window, which allows me to respond to IMs on my own
time.  To promote Meebo in my taskbar, I use
IE7 exclusively for Meebo and keep my normal web browsing to
Firefox.

Moving my life into the browser has been a general trend lately.  I already blogged
about InstaCalc, and I recently dumped my desktop regex
checker for RegexPal.  Although
I’m a bit wary of giving my financial info to a third-party, I think
I’m ready to try Wesabe when I do bills this
month.

My Windows laptop died over the weekend; I’m
currently on the Ubuntu
desktop, and frankly, with so much of my life online, I don’t
miss much!