Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit adds Chat to your site

Many solutions allowing to add a chat windows to any Web site. But Microsoft Live Messenger (works with Yahoo! Messenger) has decides to tap to its vast user base of over 300,000 millions users to bring them to any web site or blog. Small business Web sites can leverage this service to add interaction with its customers.

Windows Live Messenger Web toolkit features include:

• Automatic Sign In: Once a user opts into using Messenger on the site by using the "softer" opt-in screen, they can be automatically signed in by the Web site even if they use a different PC.
• Cross page state – you can now use this on content portals where users click between pages without losing their signed in status.
• Performance – the web based performance has been increased and should be similar to the Windows Live Messenger client when connected via HTTP.
• Connecting people who aren’t Windows Live Messenger friends, yet – People have connections/relationships all across the web, we have now made it possible to for users to take these relationships and get to know the people more via IM (both web and client) and then if the user so chooses add that person to their WLM contact list. Anyone who opts into using Messenger on their website makes it possible for the website to play "match maker" for contacts and show the presence of people on any IM client (Web/phone/Xbox/desktop).

[Source Live Blog]

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