I’ve been getting a lot of questions about this since Andreas’ blog post went up, so I think everyone deserves a bit of explanation of what the MeBeam video plugin is and isn’t.

The MeBeam plug-in is:

1. Pretty spiffy 🙂
2. Developed almost entirely by a third party
3. Primarily web-based

The MeBeam plug-in is not:

1. A product of the Adium Team (Andreas works on it, but not as part of Adium—he works on it separately from the Adium Project)
2. The long-awaited Adium video chat solution
3. Taking any development resources at all away from that solution (the plugin is extremely simple)
4. Included with Adium by default

During all our work on integrating audio and video into Adium, it seems that a company called MeBeam was way ahead of us. They implemented a cross-platform, protocol-agnostic videochat solution using Flash. The best of all: They allowed us to integrate with their service!