Digsby: instant messenger and social networks on a single program

The increase of the popularity of the social networks on the internet has caused that every time, we are registered in more of these sites and it becomes tiresome to connect to our accounts on each of them. To avoid this we find Digsby, in which, from a single window, we’ll be able to be on many at the same time, integrating and boosting our connections.

This powerful multiplatform messenger client supports a great number of protocols. MSN, Yahoo!, AIM, Google Talk, Facebook Chat, MySpace IM, ICQ and Jabber is a list that doesn’t leave almost anything out. Moreover, it doesn’t only provide us with the possibility to start conversations, but it also gives us multiple options to personalize our contacts list as a quick access to their profiles or the storing of the conversations.

If this wasn’t enough, we can also determine individually our status on each of the messenger services to which we are connected. Furthermore, it gives us the possibility to chat, independently of the service to which it belongs, with all our contacts from a single window and separating them in eyelashes. It also adds some additional features, like being able to do videoconferences. Although this last thing is easy to do, the protocol from which it does it it’s from its own, so you have to access a URL provided by Digsby when the videoconference starts.

Another of the Digsby features which turns it into a tool more than interesting is that from its main window, and by only passing the mouse on top of the names of our email accounts or 2.0 webs, we’ll be able to see the most recent updates or our inbox. Furthermore, this way, we’ll be able to update our status on the social networks, or answer emails with a single click.

Maybe the only thing against this application is that it is suspected that in those moments in which we are inactive, it uses resources of our own system to perform actions of distributed computing. However, this feature must be previously accepted to be able to run, although many question it’s not properly informed about its implications.

Beyond that and acting cautiously, Digsby is an option of great quality among the multiplatform clients that allows us to simplify our connection to the social networks integrating them on a single interface.