Today, Meebo is handing out an early Christmas present — Meebo Bar — and gifting all those extra special features to anyone that wants them on their own sites.
The beta version of Meebo Bar comes jam-packed with goodies you can customize to spruce up your site, encourage sharing and enable visitor-to-visitor instant messaging. The Meebo Bar even comes with access to a site dashboard that includes tracking share data by clicks, type and intention.
As you can tell from our site, the Meebo Bar sits at the bottom of the page. You can select which buttons and widgets you want to appear to enable extra items like Twitter Search, Digg and Stumbleupon buttons or buttons that show a quick view of your Facebook (Fan Page), Flickr, YouTube and Lala accounts. Of course, full Meebo Chat functionality is also baked right into the bar as well.
Drag-and-drop content sharing is also pretty nifty, so just as on Mashable, your readers can grab images and videos and drag them to share with their friends on Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo or via e-mail and IM.
Perhaps the best part is the ease of installation. Meebo will walk you through the process, and for self-hosted WordPress blogs, it's as simple as installing a plug-in, picking your buttons from the Meebo Bar dashboard and customizing them in WordPress if you so choose. For unsupported blog platforms, you can add pre-generated snippets of HTML to your site's code.