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A Friend of mine told me about Digsby and I’ve been testing it for about a week now, and I have to say it is very very impressive. Till now I was using Pidgin as my choice of IM client. But in comparison to Digsby Pidgin falls very short. The Social Network features of it is simply amazing and the best thing is that it has been beautifully integrated.

Well Digsby is a multiprotocol IM client that lets you chat with all your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber with one simple to manage buddy list. Couple that with an EMail integration never seen before on an IM client that allows you to mark emails as spam, delete them and throw away some social networking features you have a winner. And Digsby does exactly that..

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Google seems to be giving GMail quite a push these days isn’t it? First we had the additional storage, then the rollout of IMAP, then a new interface, and now possibly the ability to chat with friends on multiple IM networks using the Jabber Transports feature.

Ionut Alex Chitu over at Google System, while looking through the GMail code found stuff that was related to features not released as yet, which includes,

• Colors for Labels
• Detaching Messages from a Conversation
• And the ability to connect to multiple IM Networks like Yahoo, MSN, AIM etc…

I have been using Pidgin as my primary IM Client for almost an year now, simply because I couldn’t use GTalk to connect to my friends on Yahoo, MSN etc.. but if Google decides to implement Jabber Transports into GTalk, I would straightaway start using GTalk. If you are wondering what Jabber Transports is all about, then here is what Wikipedia has to say :

One of the things people like about Jabber is that you can communicate with users of legacy IM services like AIM, MSN, ICQ, and Yahoo. Unlike all-in-one IM clients like Trillian, what makes this possible in Jabber is a piece of software called a gateway (or "transport"), which runs in conjunction with a Jabber server such as jabber.org.

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