Digsby – A superb chat client and social network utility

What is it? It is an all around chat client (AIM, MSN, Gtalk, Jabber/XMPP, ICQ, &Yahoo) that also supports integration with social networking sites such as facebook, twitter, myspace(myspace sucks anyways) and also has integration with email (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, POP, IMAP, AOL/email).

Download Digsby for Windows | Digsby Home

Key Features

• Update your status for twitter/facebook/myspace all through the application
• View your news feeds for twitter/facebook/myspace in a fancy little panel either in your toolbar or in the actual application.
• Email directly from an account to anyone without having to use an external mail program or web based mail program. e.g. if you are talking to someone on gmail and want to send them an email about something you just click the email tab and type your message and send. No wasting time of using another application unless you need to write up an email containing any html such as bulleted lists or bold headers.
• Provides notifications for all new email messages and social networking updates.
• Make digsby widgets that you can post on any site such as facebook or your own personal blog site. Once the widget is placed on your site anyone that visits your site can IM you, kind of like instant support for a site…

Cons

• Currently only windows supported, mac and linux are on their way. Use these links if you want to be notified when digsby for mac comes out or when digsby for linux. comes out
• Couldn’t think of any other ones at the time, if I find some then I will post them.

Useful links

• Digsby Screenshots – IM themes are very similar to adium for mac if anyone uses that.
• Download Digsby for Windows – Mac and linux versions are supposed to be on their way.
• Digsby facebook application – you can put a box on your profile so people can im you or just use it to integrate with your desktop app.
• Full list of Digsby Features
• Pidgin - Another multi-client chat application that is what I was using before I switched to Digsby. Has a great following and is an amazing application.