Digsby - More than a multiplatform IM client. It doesn’t even suck!
I tried Digsby earlier on in March and was quite impressed with it but since I’ve never really used a multitude of Instant messaging platforms I didn’t really care for it. I’m only on Google Talk and WLM/MSN Messenger and running those two clients was perfectly fine by me. However on May 1 Digsby announced support for Facebook chat. I strongly believe Facebook Chat has a strong potential of becoming the biggest IM provider as the approach of building IM around a social network makes more sense than the traditional approach of doing it the other way around. So this made me take the plunge and drop the GTalk client (sorry Google <3).
The feature list is really extensive so I’m not going to go through it all. I will go through some of the main ones though. Firstly, it has supposed for all major IM platforms( MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber, and Facebook Chat). In addition you can configure multiple email accounts in the client, and tha
t’s not just notification , it’s complete control (open, delete, forward, mark as read etc). Facebook stalkers enthusiasts will love the Social networking feature which lets you receive updates from Facebook (other social networks supported too). This can get pretty extensive actually, I ended up unsubscribing from that as it was an overload. There’s a lot more you can do with it, writing about it all will result in a really long boring post.
You can really customize the application and it’s appearance a great deal, right from buddy list to conversation window. The way I’ve set it up now is it connects to my Gtalk account, Facebook account, Twitter account and retrieves email from my two Gmail accounts. Still haven’t given up on MSN because believe it or not, I like the client. However should it exceed my bloat tolerance threshold I won’t have qualms about dumping it.
If nothing else, it’s a good enough client for Facebook Chat. Give it a spin. They have a new build as well.
Tags: facebook, instant messaging