I was very pleasantly surprised just now to discover that Pidgin is available for the Windows platform.
According to the Pidgin website:
“Pidgin is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once.”
Overtime I’ve somehow managed to accumulate accounts for a variety of instant messaging services, including MSN, Google Talk, AIM, and Yahoo! Messenger.
I spent quite some time trying to use all of them, but eventually came to the conclusion that forcing my machine to load five different messaging programs every time I started …

Via Mashable (“Google Talk Turns Into a Chat Widget“, 27 February 2008):
“A new Google Talk feature called Chatback lets you put up a widget on your website which lets visitors send messages directly to your Google Talk account. Your visitors, however, don’t need a Google talk account; they can simply start writing messages directly into the widget. The chat opens up in a new window, so visitors can leave the actual site and keep chatting.”
Mashable’s statement that the new Google Talk feature “lets visitors send messages directly to your Google …

Via Mashable (“Gmail Chat Adds Groups and Smileys“):
“Group chat has finally found its way to gmail’s instant messaging system. So right there while you have your email inbox open, you can chat with multiple people at one time. Start a group chat by clicking on the Options link at the bottom of a conversation window. You’ll now see “Group Chat” as a new option. Once that’s selected, just type in the name of the person you’d like to add to your current conversation. If you don’t see the group chat …

Just had a look at the showcase video for the new version of Mac OSX – Leopard – and I’m quite impressed. Preliminary news reports have deemed this new version “an evolution rather than a revolution” and based upon what I’ve just seen in the video I agree with their assessments – and yet the improvements that Apple has made to iChat in particular are phenomenal.
They’ve taken what was an already excellent IM video chat program and turned it into a web conferencing tool that is on par with any …

That’s Your AIM in My GTalk
Now here’s a feature I’m looking forward to seeing launch: AIM – Google Talk interoperability. Via TechCrunch, screenshots of development versions have surfaced on blog, Google Operating System.
Based on the screen grab depicted by TechCrunch you’ll be able to chat within Gmail just as you currently can with Google Talk. What remains to be seen is whether they’ll roll this option into the IM client, which is not always a sure thing.
Features such as group chat for example, while available in the web interface version …