I've posted before of another instant messaging system with 3D avatars. This new app is a bit similar, but not nearly as bandwidth hogging or truly 3D.
Weblin is a simple chat application that works like any other out there. But unlike other applications, weblin allows you to chat with people, inside your web browser, who are visiting the same site (The website you are at acts like the chat room). For example, say I'm visiting the kottu.org website. While I'm there, I can see the avatars of other people who are there at that time. (Below picture shows there are no others visiting kottu with weblin installed).
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Once you download the weblin setup,It will in turn download and install the actual program. Once installed, you can create your weblin account to start using weblin. Firefox users have to install an additional plugin to get started (I'm not sure whether there's a need for an extension for IE).
You can start chatting with other avatars on the website by double clicking on your avatar. This will show the speech bubble, into which you can type and your message will be visible to all in the current page. You can also have a private chat with anyone in the page by right clicking on the other persons avatar and selecting Private chat from the menu that pops up. You can also animate your avatar by selecting any of the actions available like dance, clap, wave, etc... Right clicking on your avatar provides much of these (and many more) options to you, as well as the 'Butler' icon available on the bottom left corner of the screen.
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Download Weblin from here.
Firefox extension can be found here.
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