If you have been using the Internet as long as me, IRC don`t needs any introduction, if you don`t not what IRC is, IRC is what you had previously to both the IM bloom generated thanks to ICQ and that later AIM, MSN and Yahoo made mainstream and Online IM clients like ebuddy and Meebo made ubiquitous.
It also was what you had previously to the surge of Chat Rooms so it is the Grandfather of both IM and Chat.
And in the same way that Meebo brought web 2.0 to IM in the Web, Mibbit does it with IRC, bringing it to your browser without the need of a desktop client or a Java Applet. going to the main pages of mibbit give you a full IRC experience and that results very enjoyable and easy for any to use.
But, they also developer a IRC chat widget for blogs. a compact and less featured version of the full IRC web client but that you can put in your blog without a problem and that works cross browser -cross platform. why would you want a IRC chat widget in your blog instead of a threaded chat room widget like we have reviewed before?. because unlinke other new chat clients and chat services. there is always a audience and active users using IRC, if your blog is about Cars, or Fashion or Video games, you select or create your Channel in IRC on that subject. and the people visiting your blog can engage directly with you in that channel, but also any other user roaming IRC interested in that could end up in your channe, giving you a way to communicate with your readers and to extend your audience that no other Chat Client can archive.
Mibbit really surprised me, i never expected IRC to get the Web 2.0 treatment and much less be writing about it for my ·300th blog post here at widgets lab.
But i choose Mibbit for my 300th post because it not something that i can tell you about but that i can fully recommend you. enjoy.
via CNET
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Yeah Mibbit doesn’t work. I was an OP in my channel and Mibbit could NEVER connect. I’m frickin serious. I hate it.