The Social Networker

by Chris Miller at 03:25:56 PM on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
So you want a new all-in-one, consolidated client? What would it support?
  • AOL
  • MSN
  • Yahoo
  • ICQ
  • Gtalk
  • Jabber

What if you were part of social networks? What would it support?
  • Facebook
  • MySpace

What if you had email? Would you check it?
  • Gmail
  • Yahoo mail
  • AOL and AIM mail
  • Hotmail
  • POP and IMAP accounts

Whew, can it be done?

Digsby client

So there is a screenshot of the client, that has options to have things in your system tray as requred for email and the social networks. What about a screenshot of the preferences?

Digsby preferences

Well after I played with this some, I found that it did not do Twitter yet (I suggested it to them), nor did it have the hook for Sametime or LCS (not unexpected). I can see more social networks coming in also as they grow the beta and the product. But what I did enjoy was the tiny pop alerts (as shown here)
Digsby

that not only showed you the feed event, but let you have a mini chat window if you wanted to.

One other item I enjoyed was the slideout for the social network viewing as well as the ability to do some basic mail functions from the client. This has saved me time already and if they listen to suggestions for more inclusions, a real winner. Couple this with Spokeo for reading all the friend updates from all over and I have two things running that encompass the social network world. At least until tomorrow comes along.

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  • Workplace
  • Sametime
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This will take far more time than I have today. I will start with I was born and still live in St. Louis, MO. Even though for a couple years I was never, ever here and always on the road, this is smack in the middle of the US. Everything is just a few hour flight. That part is nice. No beach/ocean/coast isn't the best. But with the travel I make up for it.

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