I’ve been lugging around old IM accounts for almost a decade. I’ve got an ICQ account I made after my first ICQ account got hacked. I’ve got a Yahoo account I made while working in N. Dallas because that’s the chat platform those kids agreed upon. I’ve got some AIM accounts and MSN accounts I’ve had for longer than I care to remember. I think it’s time to ditch some cruft, not for a facebook chat account (God No!), but in favor of Google Talk.
They’ve got AIM <--> Google Talk Federation live, and since I can use this to chat with my wife, I think that’s just about all I need. Chatting with her is like 2/3rd of my online chatting. In moving from my lugging my laptop everywhere and doing _EVERYTHING_ on it, I’m using my home PCs quite a bit more and need my chat client to be distributed. I don’t want to install clients on every darn machine. I was thinking about going the BitlBee route, but I don’t live in an IRC window, so while it would consolidate my chat client into a single point of presence, it wouldn’t be convenient most of the time. Google Talk scratches that itch because everywhere I check my email and on my cell phone, I can get these messages. I’m not yet really satisfied with multi-IM programs on my phone and iPod yet. I’ve thought about Meebo and was about to give the new Trillian a try when I thought… meh. Why bother.
So I’m in the middle of talking to people who I can only get a hold of on other networks and seeing how I can chat with them on something other than just MSN or ICQ or Yahoo. We’ll see how this turns out when and if I finally stop using Digsby.
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