According to a recent update to the Ubuntu Wiki Messaging Menu page, the MeMenu will be integrated into the Messaging Menu. Further more, the MeMenu Ubuntu wiki page now says it's obsolete and will be replaced "by an IM status section in the messaging menu", which makes it pretty clear that the MeMenu and Messaging Menu unification is about to happen.

Want to display an icon only for the Ubuntu MeMenu (the indicator that displays your status)? Just run the following commands in a terminal:

It seems there's a lot of competition between the Linux docks lately, each adding feature after feature.

After AWN got a new style called Lucido (AWN will also get Zeitgeist integration soon), Cairo Dock announced a new systray (or notification area) which you can preview in the video below: