Digsby = IM + Mail + Social Networking

I would like to present a really cool software I found via a friend on Twitter called Digsby.

It is as it says in the headline a tool for IM, Mail and Social Networking. More specifically it lets you use one software only to keep track and handle all of your chat clients, mail clients and social networks - or at least the supported ones.

IM/Chat

The IM-part consists of a combined buddy list for all of your contacts that you have in any of the following:
- AIM
- MSN
- Yahoo
- ICQ
- Google Talk
- Jabber

If you have the same contact in for example both MSN and Google Talk, then it will be displayed as one contact (it seems to go for the email address when merging). Some other features are renaming contacts, sending SMS, manage multiple conversations with tabbed windows. No support for Sametime unfortunately.

Email

The supported ones are:
- Hotmail
- Gmail
- Yahoo mail
- AOL/AIM mail
- IMAP and POP accounts

Send e-mails right from the IM-windows with the chosen mail client.

Social networking

The supported networks are:
- Twitter
- Facebook
- MySpace

You can post status messages directly from the client. Receive twitter messages as small self-disappearing popups and see notifications from facebook etc.

Status for social networks and mail clients are seen as small icons in the status bar and with just a single click a windows slides up showing the latest status or received mails.

This is an extremely cool and very useful software. Nowadays everything that is cool is web-based. This shows on a great desktop program that really impresses. Download it, you won't be disappointed!