Instant Messaging 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.

Email Notifications digsby is an email notification tool that alerts you of new email and lets you perform actions such as ‘Delete’ or ‘Report Spam’ with just one click.

Social Networking digsby is a social networking tool that alerts you of events like new messages and gives you a live Newsfeed of what your friends are up to.

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Well As you people might know that GAIM is now PIDGIN and it support multi protocol instant messaging client that allows you to use all of your Instant messenger account at one place. It can work with the following IM networks.

AIM – mIRC – MSN (now WLM) – Googletalk – Yahoo IM – ICQ and many more!

Okay Now lets talk about further what is PIDGIN?

Pidgin is an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, mIRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr.

One thing that caught my eye was the tabs. I could easily switch between one conversation to another using tabs instead of having multiple windows taking up space on the desktop.

Pidgin supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer, away messages, and typing notification. It also goes beyond that and provides many unique features. A few popular features are Buddy Pounces, which give the ability to notify you, send a message, play a sound, or run a program when a specific buddy goes away, signs online, or returns from idle; and plugins, consisting of text replacement, a buddy ticker, extended message notification, iconify on away, spell checking, tabbed conversations, and more.

The Main and important thing i note that PIDGIN giving away free code because PIDGIN team believes in freedom of communication and aspirations of Instant Messengers Freedom.

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Make new friends with real people on Paltalk Messenger. This easy to use chat service hosts over 4,000 chat rooms. Chat rooms are organized by topic, ranging from romance to chess to foreign countries. Paltalk also offers instant messaging, file sharing, multi-party chat and more.

Paltalk Messenger is compatible with Yahoo!, ICQ and AOL contacts so you can manage all of your buddies through one service. Speak to them using live video or voice chat.

Paltalk Messenger is the place for endless video and voice chatting, but does not support video conferencing or pc-to-phone calling.

Summary:
Paltalk lets you explore worlds of subjects and throngs of people within thousands of chat rooms. Serious chatters will enjoy the diversity and endless possibilities. However, for video conferencing and pc-to-phone calling capabilities see Windows Live Messenger.

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Yahoo! Messenger, also known as YIM, also known as Yahoo! Instant Messenger and also known as Yahoo! Pager is of course, an attempt by Yahoo! to compete in the Instant Messaging game.

With Yahoo’s great reputation online, this messenger had a head start. It’s continuing strong with allowing message archiving (if enabled), offline messages, Webcam support, its own games, the ability to choose scenery to chat in with other people, and more.

With all these featues, the program is still small, compact and easy to use.

YIM‘s user base isn’t the biggest (though it still has millions of people). If the smaller user base is not a problem for you, you can safely and easily check out YIM for Windows or Macintosh.

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MSN Messenger (known as MSN) is a program used to communicate with other MSN Messenger users in real time.

Each user is required to have a passport account, which is linked to an email address that they can log in with. All Hotmail accounts are automatically Passport enabled. You can add users to your contact list by clicking the appropriate button and typing in their Passport Registered email address. You will only be able to send messages to this person when they are online and have selected to allow you to communicate with them. MSN Messenger is a Microsoft Product.

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