Digsby = Sweet
Published 9.18.2008 by ~mattg
I have been using Trillian for some time because it allows you to utilize multiple IM clients (AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo) in a single application. However, with my increased usage of Gmail, Facebook, and Twitter, it still seemed like I had too much open to do the same things.
Firefox has some add-ons like Twitkit and the GMail Manager that allowed some interactivity, but that mean that I had to have Firefox open all the time. Sadly, when I’m really focused on development, I don’t usually have that open.
A co-worker noticed my tweet about Twitter’s IM service being down for some time. He pointed me to Digsby, which is the current uber client for IM, Email, and several social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter are the only ones currently implemented). Given my new fascination with Facebook, I thought I’d give it a try. So far, I’m impressed.
The ability to tweet from the IM client works great (better than Twitter’s own IM bot). The integration into Facebook chat means I’m on Facebook chat pretty much all day, which is pretty fun. And, since my various email accounts (2 gmails, yahoo, msn, and a couple pop accounts) are easily manageable within Digsby, it looks like Trillian is out. It’s served me well, but the Digsby client seems much more integrated.
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