I’ve been a huge proponent of Trillian for years. At one time it was really the only big player in the Multi-Protocol Messenger Arena (meaning it’s one program that can connect to many IM programs at once). I had friends on AIM, family on Yahoo, and no one on MSN (but I still logged on) so it was great to have one program instead of three. But over the years Trillian hasn’t kept up with the times. Missing features and things that just flat out didn’t work – Video Chat, I’m looking at you – caused me to yearn for something better. So I looked around. Meebo, who wants to be have to open a web page to use IM? Pidgin – ugly and an incredibly small feature set. Then I ran into Digsby.

Digsby has it all. AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Google Talk, Jabber, ICQ (does anyone outside of Europe still use ICQ?), and the nicest addition – Facebook chat! But wait, there’s more! It also does email notification: Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail, or ANY POP3 or IMAP email account. It even has Facebook and MySpace integration so you’re notified of friend updates. Whew, that wore me out.

The facts can’t be refuted. If you use Instant Messaging, you HAVE to give Digsby a try.

Seriously. Go download it.