Digsby is here…well almost

Thats right after 2 years of development Digsby has arrived. The service is an IM client that helps you organise everything under one roof! It lets you log in to your existing AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk and Jabber accounts, merging everything into one buddy list. Add your email and social network accounts and almost everything you need to know about your online world is just one click away!

Here is the current feature list for the download.

Instant Messaging

One combined buddy list for all your AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber Accounts. Manage multiple conversations with tabbed conversation windows. You can drag + drop tabs out into their own windows for important conversations. Rename contacts with an alias so you don’t have to remember buddy names like “giantsfan123″. If one of your friends has more than one IM account you can combine them into a single merged contact to eliminate duplicate buddies. Send your friends SMS messages right from the IM window. The InfoBox lets you check everyone’s status message and profile just by moving your mouse down the list. Changing your status has never been easier - just one click right on the buddy list! Multitask while you chat. Minimize the IM window and you see popups of new IM’s. Best of all, you can reply right from the popup and get back to what you were doing. Log conversation history and find the information you need in our search enabled log viewer. And so much more.

Email

Manage your Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL/AIM Mail, IMAP, and POP accounts right from digsby. Get popup notifications when new email arrives. Clicking a popup takes you right to the message with auto-login into webmail accounts. The email InfoBox gives you a snapshot of your unread messages with just one click. Perform actions such as “Mark as Read” or “Report Spam” right from the email InfoBox. Send emails to your friends right from the IM window. The email is sent directly from any account digsby is tracking for you.

Social Networking

Stay up to date with everything happening on your Facebook or MySpace account (other network support coming soon). Receive alerts of events such as new friend requests, messages, group invites, etc. The social network InfoBox gives you a real time NewsFeed of what your friends are up to. Everything from new photos, to status updates, to upcoming birthdays is just a click away.

Personalise

Customise digsby with application skins to give it a personal look and feel. Change the way your conversations look with themes - everything from simple AIM style windows to 3D conversation bubbles. Complete control over the layout of buddies on the buddy list. Change everything from buddy icon size and position to whether or not to show a snippet of a buddy’s away message. Sort your buddy list how ever you want! You can organise buddies manually, by status, by service, by name or by log size to place those you communicate with most at the top. You can even choose a secondary sorting method. Customisable notification system lets you choose what events you want to be alerted about and how.

Other

Digsby offers complete synchronisation between computers and installations. Everything from the skin you choose to your pre-defined status messages follows you from place to place. You can place a widget on your blog, website, or social network profile and chat with visitors right from digsby. Manage multiple simultaneous file transfers from one simple transfer manager.

Having said all this however digsby is still currently in private beta so if you do want to try this out drop them an email and they will send you an invite.

Tags: digsby, IM+Client, AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google+Talk, Jabber, Facebook