Meebo and Other Various Languages
I have been using this wonderful service called Meebo for about 6 months or so now. It basically is a web version of Trillian with no IRC feature. Once can connect to AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger, ICQ and now Google’s chat service - Google Talk.
Alike many other services on the web, Meebo’s front page have an enslaught of different languages to choose from in case the visitor does not speak English as their primary language. Awesome - catering to the world. Works for me.
A closer look (why I looked closer, I could not tell you - it’s actually a rather busy day today - maybe I’m just in analytical mode) proved to be well worth my time. One of the languages presented in the list was simply labled “l337“. Oh yes… it’s exactly what you think.
My interface now shows things such as “5CЯ33ll ll4[V]3” instead of “screen name” and “#31l*” instead of “help“. Props, kudos, whatever you want to call it, to Meebo for being so creative in their efforts to stay profession-looking but still have a personality which is completely essential in the business of web applications these days. I applaud you sirs.