I’ve been a user of Trillian now for quite a number of years. Today I was welcomed with the message that they have launched a new web version of their aggregated instant messaging chat client. They’ll be competing with the likes of Digsby, eBuddy and Meebo.

The Trillian web client incorporates a general desktop look and feel, minus all of your other windows. I can understand this metaphor as can most computer users, but I’m not sure it’s the best use of space. The more I use it though, I can see how taking advantage of the ALT+TAB function of switching …read more

There seems to be quite a bit of development going on in the Instant Messaging arenas on a variety of different fronts. You’ve got your individual clients that are always releasing updates. Third party clients that aggregate the individual platforms to a single interface and buddy list. Then you have the website applications that aggregate the individuals to a web page interface with no software to download.

imo.im is the latter and have provided a very simple interface to combine your IM clients onto the web. I tried it out and it does a good job of quickly connecting to your …read more

 
Facebook is one of those websites I’ve been trying to manage my time on lately. Between Facebook and Twitter, there’s a battle for which one will remain open the longest on my screen.
Now Facebook has added a new feature that may make it even more difficult to turn it off. They now have embedded chat features so you can instantly talk to your Facebook friends that are online.
To some degree it’s not a big deal for me because I’m always logged into all my chat clients (Live Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, Y! Messenger) at once with Trillian. That along …read more