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Digsby Launches Public Beta

March 20, 2008 by in Cool,Downloadable,News,Random with 12 Comments

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dotSyntax, the Instant Messaging startup behind my favourite IM client Digsby today announced their public beta launch meaning no more invite codes needed, just to go to their site and download the program if you want to try it out. Along with the public beta, a major update will be pushed out with the program having the following features.

  • One combined buddy list for AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber accounts with duplicate contact merging, tabbed conversation windows and two way SMS from within the IM window

  • New e-mail alerts for Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL/AIM Mail, IMAP, and POP accounts, as well as, an Inbox Snapshot view that allows users to perform actions like “Mark as Read” and “Report Spam” with one click

  • Real time newsfeed for Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter friend events like status changes, new photos, and upcoming birthdays, along with alerts for events like friend requests, new messages, and group invites

  • Personalized look and feel with various application skins, conversation themes, and extensive buddy list layout options

So, no invite code is no excuse not to try my favourite IM right now! Tell ‘em Evan from UNEASYsilence sent ya!

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  • Marc

    I just downloaded a copy and tied it to my yahoo, google, aim, facebook and myspace accounts. Looks great so far – Im going to give it a week or two, and if it works well Im ditching all my other clients.

  • Lisa

    No mac yet. :(

  • http://www.kriegs.org Jeff Krieger

    yeah, no mac yet. :(

  • http://jeremyricketts.com Jeremy Ricketts

    Hey just a quick note- when linking/reviewing software, let us know if it’s for PC or Mac (or both).

    Love the blog. Keep up the good work.

  • Exer

    I gave this a shot for a couple weeks awhile back, but there were just far too many bugs to be usable for me. Every time I loaded the program it “forgot” all my account data, and it was becoming a pain to add all that back in every time. Not to mention that it constantly disconnected my msn and yahoo accounts, countless times a day. It was a shame too, because I thought the program was really slick.

    I’ll just have to wait for a more stable release, perhaps once it graduates past beta.

  • http://uneasysilence.com Evan

    Exer – they do regular updates, try downloading this version, and if you get problems, send in some bug reports, the team there seems to be really keeping up with this.

    Jeremy – I actually did mention platforms in my initial review which I linked to in this post. http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2008/02/12944/ So I should be covered :D I still could have mentioned it, so next time, thanks for heads up!

  • http://www.ninjakai.com Kai Davis

    I was using the beta (Thanks for the invite code!) and referred all of my friends to Digsby. I love it.

    My only issue is that this beta seems buggy compared to the previous closed betas. I had a lot of trouble getting twitter working, but after around an hour it started pulling the tweets.

    I’m really trying to decide if I use the twitter interface in Digsby or not. I enjoy having just one application to handle it all. While Digsby beats Trillian and Pidgin as far as an instant messaging client goes and having my ‘life feeds’ from facebook and myspace pulled in a la socialthing or friendfeed is wonderful.

    But twhirl on my PC and twitteriffic on my Mac are what I want digsby to be for twitter.

    Who knows.

    For now I’m using both as the impulse strikes me.

  • rubbaduckeeh

    I’m the Adium kind of Apple Fabnboi – this doesn’t impress me at all.

  • Martin

    I am still waiting for the full support of some the original functions of msn messenger or others like custom smileys, offline-messages or video-chats. But for the first it is not bad. Especially the email support is really a nice feature if you use serveral accounts.

  • http://www.horseshoes-handgrenades.com Stephen

    Ever since you guys recommended this and gave out the invite code, I’ve been using it. I haven’t found that many problems at all, and it totally replaced PIdgin on my system. Thanks for the invite code that got me started on it in the first place. I’ve been trying my best to turn my friends onto it!

  • http://uneasysilence.com Evan

    Glad you like it, I personally just love this piece of software.

  • Chowder

    @Evan…don’t worry about stating if it’s PC or Mac software….some of us actually read before we download…guess it says something about our fast food society today…

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