eBuddy - Popular Free Instant Messanger

Based on the Google Zeitgeist review (http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2007/index.html) eBuddy application has captured the line 7 of the top 10 searches, performed on Google, at the last quarter of 2007 worldwide. If so many people are interesting in checking this piece of freeware, it is a good chance that the software is worth our review.

eBuddy (http://www.ebuddy.com/) is a freeware Web-based instant messenger that enables communication between members of the following communities: MSN, Yahoo, MySpace, Google Talk, and AIM. No downloads or registration required to use the application. In order to run the web version of the software, user just needs to have a Javascript enabled browser. eBuddy can access users accounts from any computer, even the one secured by firewall. Last year, eBuddy added the mobile version as well. Every mobile device that supports xHTML or WAP can be used for Instant Messaging. This includes Mobile Phones, PDA's, Sony PSP, and Nintendo DS. To utilize all available features, user might download the special software on their mobile devices. If that is not possible, chat might be initiated directly from the mobile browser.

eBuddy offers a secure login option and ability for user to be invisible on the network. The chat client includes a tab mode setting to separate different chat windows, similar to the tabbed web browser.

At the end of December 2007, eBuddy launched a new Internet Mobile version of the Messenger, renamed to eBuddy Lite Messenger. This version addressed multiple user requests to be able to login all your accounts at once. Now, user might chat with all his friends from all his IM accounts in one single buddy list, and have multiple conversations at the same time. At the moment, eBuddy interface is available on 13 languages, serving to about 55 million users around the World.