Let your friends IM you from the web

During TechEd Europe today, a new IM control for the web was released by Microsoft. The IM control allows you to put a special control on your website that allows anyone to send you IMs or see your status. The IM control is of course ideal for letting people contact you from your Windows Live Space (or any other blog, for that matter).

Visitors of your site can send you either anonymous messages, or they can opt to sign in via Windows Live ID (formerly known as Passport). To prevent spammers from sending you unwanted messages, a visitor has to pass a CAPTCHA test (filling out the letters/numbers in an image) before a new conversation is started. Of course, no one will see your actual IM address, so you don’t have to worry about strangers adding you to their contact list.

Creating an IM control couldn’t be easier: simply check a box on your settings page, and then copy/paste the generated HTML into your website. This is of course a great step towards integrating IM with the web and I’m sure we can expect more from the guys at Microsoft soon.

View: Create your own IM Control!
Source: Mess.be