Comments on: Open Thread: What is your favorite IM?

By: mossman

mossman — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 17:10:21 +0000

iChat, Gtalk and Skype – need something to cover the lot! Fave is iChat, nice interface and works very well.

By: gregg

gregg — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 17:52:02 +0000

putting my 2c in a bit late, but i love bare-bones chatting and i love IRC. it's so simple and effective and secure and i don't have to rely on some 3rd party server. (i run my own server, so that adds to the security.) to talk to my friends who don't/can't/won't irc, i use bitlbee which is a service that connects to an irc server and allows me to chat with any of the major services through an irc client. i used to use yahoo IM, but it got so bloated, i just couldn't take it anymore.

By: Bernd Eckenfels

Bernd Eckenfels — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:01:21 +0000

Prefering Gaim on Windows to aggregate various MSN, ISQ, Yahoo and Jabber (jabber.org, google talk, google apps) accounts. Too bad it does not allow me to skype chat.

By: Sathya

Sathya — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:14:50 +0000

I generally have use yahoo, msn and gmail IMs. [though I pretty much prefer Gtalk, its difficult to have all ur contacts move there !!!]
But running each of the IMs separately started to hog my laptop’s memory.
That is when I came across meebo, but did not like having a browser window open for this sake and ended up with Trillian. Pretty much satisfied.

By: webwonk

webwonk — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 18:23:59 +0000

I will be looking in to using Skype’s SkypeCast for a working group I’ve formed. This would similar to 37Signals’ Campfire – only free.

By: webwonk

webwonk — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 18:11:48 +0000

I use the Gaim client for my work, family and friends (who are on various jabbers and Yahoo IM). I turn off everything except text – no file transfers, voice, etc.

For file transfers I use Pando

For Audio/Video conferencing I use SightSpeed Pro (total of 4 endpoints per conference)

For telephony I use Diax and an Asterisk VoIP provider (SightSpeed charges too much for their VoIP service.)

By: Diogenes

Diogenes — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 16:06:34 +0000

I use the GAIM client to stay connected with contacts on MSN, ICQ and Gtalk (Jabber). It’s a lot cleaner and lower overhead than Trillian. Skype for the voice and video with my Parents on the weekends.

By: kansaisamurai

kansaisamurai — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 07:01:45 +0000

I use Adium for usual chats, and iChat only sometimes for video/audio chats.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 05:20:28 +0000

At work, our internal IM system is Jabber, and it has the connectors to go to other services. I use the Adium client on Mac for this.

But, we are also making very heavy use of Campfire these days as well. I use the Pyro app for Campfire sessions. The team just all pretty much sits in Campfire rooms all day, and since we’re a distributed team, it gives you some of the same advantage of all being in the same room (without some of the disadvantages :)

By: Phoenix

Phoenix — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 07:55:38 +0000

Gtalk… Yahoo is too heavy! AIM is good for a local network…Skype is awesome for voice calls… Meebo rocks!