A lot of libraries use widgets on their pages to answer virtual reference questions. They use things like Meebo, Digsby, AIM, and the very cool Library H3LP. Yet recently Meebo co-founder Seth Sternberg, one of the pioneers of widgets on the… Continue Reading
A couple weeks ago I wrote a post about using Pidgin and Meebo for our IM Reference service. They have worked fairly well and the service gets a lot of use, but there have been a few problems. Pidgin would… Continue Reading
We use Pidgin at the reference desk to monitor our meebo widgets and IM accounts, so I was glad to see that the latest version fixed a number of bugs. Pidgin tended to crash once or twice a day which… Continue Reading