November 7, 2007

How to allow people to IM you via Messenger through your web page

Have you ever wanted people browsing your site to know if you’re signed into Windows Live Messenger?

Have you ever wanted people browsing your site to be able to chat with you immediately, without having to sign up for Windows Live Messenger account?

Well… now you can:

http://settings.messenger.live.com/applications/websettings.aspx 

It’s pretty easy - just follow the directions and it’ll spit out a snippet of code for you to copy and paste onto your page.

Give it a try!

Here’s the control embedded in this post (Thanks to Dave for the reminder):

 

Posted by: dtc @ 12:23 pm

One Comment to “How to allow people to IM you via Messenger through your web page”

  1. Dave Cortright Says:

    Hmm, tried it on both Yahoo! 360 and Mash and neither support iFrames. Why don’t you have a control embedded in this post?

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