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Using the Notifixio gadget, you can display an option to you website's visitors to subscribe by instant messenger. It supports GTalk, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live, Jabber, ICQ and email. That means each person that subscribes will receive updates consisting of new blog posts through a windows in their instant messaging client.

To allow visitors to subscribe by IM, all you have to do is add this gadget to your website:
<script src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/notifixious_assets/notifixious_widget.js"></script>
Because I didn't like the way the gadget looks, i modified it using CSS:
#new_account_form input {
width:135px!important;
}
#notifixious_signature {
display : none!important;
visibility: hidden!important;
}
#notifixious_instructions {
margin: 0 5px 10px 5px!important;
}
#notifixious_widget feed {
display : none!important;
visibility: hidden!important;
}

Before:

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After:

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Don't worry about it's width, it will automatically fit in your sidebar.