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
and the list of features goes on and on… (as I said - it’s an ambitious project)
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!
Note: digsby is still in private beta, so you need an invite code to be able to use it. Fortunately digsby was kind enough to provide readers of this blog with 500 invites! Just use the invite code friedbeef and you’ll be able to download digsby and get full access!
March 13th, 2008 at 7:06 am
Thanks, Digsby is pretty neat so far. I started with Trillian (too bloated), then Miranda (stopped working for unknown reasons), then Pidgeon (pretty decent), but none of them had multi-email acct checking. And I love how mousing over an email acct gives a popup with those delete/read/mark-as-read options.
I agree with your wishlist for Twitter; I’d also love basic IRC options. I do NOT like the numerous taskbar icons for each email acct though, just a single Digsby icon would suffice.
March 13th, 2008 at 7:08 am
Oh, forgot that I can’t get my Yahoo IM going for some reason. I checked my settings against Pidgeon’s Yahoo IM settings, and they’re identical, but with Digsby I can’t get Yahoo to connect. But the Yahoo mail works fine.
March 13th, 2008 at 7:10 am
that’s scary. It is a great tool to help you to waste all your time on IM, social networking, emails, etc!
March 13th, 2008 at 7:10 am
Yahoo IM started working right after I posted about having problems, figures.
March 13th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Hello I am using friend feed see my post here
http://techathand.net/2008/03/friendfeed-watching-your-friends-social-book-marking-site/
March 13th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
this is a good one..thanks.
March 18th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
Wow, that’s a lot of features there. Cool!
nhick
March 25th, 2008 at 5:02 am
still no Linux version :(
April 4th, 2008 at 1:24 am
I’m really digging (haha) Digsby, it’s becoming more useful as I use it to have almost everything that I need in one place. If only they could add on Skype, I’d be a happy camper.