Imo.im is an online service allowing you to log into your instant messaging accounts at the same time. There are 4 instant messaging accounts that you can link to: AIM, MSN, Yahoo and Google Talk.

Useful features include searching buddies, group chats (within multiple IM accounts) and adding buddies. This tool allows you to access your accounts and chat with multiple groups, users and buddies without having to download any software — so you can virtually access you account anywhere in the world on any computer.

It is a good and powerful concept but it remains to be seen how it will differentiate itself from its more established competitors Meebo and eBuddy. Since it is in the Alpha stage, I may have to reserve my major comments until it gets into the later stages… though I would like to see a mobile version and ICQ functionality in addition to the other four.

You may also like to include more on who you are and where you are located in your “About” page, as users often want to know whether you are credible enough to trust with usernames/ passwords. I do like the initial Ajax style interface and so far, the usage of it didn’t give me any problems — a good start (with lots of potential) and look forward to future implementations.