Keeping in constant contact with your friends
online has never been easier. We’ve now got a growing list of instant
messaging,
email, and
online social networks that help us stay in touch.
The trouble is, the more points of contact we have, the more time it takes to manage our
online presence.
digsby is a free ambitious service which allows you to track everything in one place. I’ve now got my Facebook, Gmail, and MSN running off digsby and I get updates from all sources without having to visit individual sites. Think of it as RSS feeds for your
online presence.
There are too many features to get into detail on this post, but here are some of my favorites:
* One combined buddy list for all your AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber Accounts.
* Manage multiple conversations with tabbed conversation windows. You can drag tabs out into their own windows for important conversations.
* Gives you a snapshot of your unread messages with just one click
* Perform actions such as "Mark as Read" or "Report
Spam" , and send
email right from digsby
* Receive alerts of events such as new friend requests, messages, group invites, newsfeed etc. from Facebook
* Complete synchronization between computers and installations.
* You can place a widget on your
blog,
website, or social
network profile so you can
chat with visitors right from digsby.
* Manage multiple simultaneous
file transfers from one simple transfer manager
On my wish-list is Twitter integration as well as a web based
interface as well. Hope this is in development down the road :) In any case it’s still a fabulous way to centralize all my
online communication!