{"id":35,"date":"2008-07-01T23:14:41","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T04:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2008-07-01T23:14:41","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T04:14:41","slug":"recommendation-digsby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/01\/recommendation-digsby\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommendation: Digsby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using the chat client <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digsby.com\">Digsby<\/a> for a while now, and it&#8217;s pretty awesome. It&#8217;s comparatively new (less than a year), but quite stable, feature complete, and adds a bunch of new features that simplify things substantially.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cleanly integrates with all the traditional instant messenging systems, adding gtalk, facebook chat, and twitter.<\/li>\n<li>Integrates mail and event notifications from almost any mail source, as well as facebook and myspace&#8217;s event feeds<\/li>\n<li>Free!<\/li>\n<li>Almost cross platform &#8211; the initial release is Windows only, but they&#8217;re releasing OS X and Linux versions soon<\/li>\n<li>Lets you neatly merge multiple accounts on different services belonging to the same person. Then, just tells you if they&#8217;re online on any service, and intelligently uses that one to communicate with them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Given the proliferation of social networks and messaging networks, it&#8217;s quite nice to have one tool that bridges them. I don&#8217;t have to deal with the fact that not everyone uses the same tools &#8211; Digsby gives me a list of everyone, and when I want to talk with them, it just works.<\/p>\n<p>I love tools that hide complexity without being simplistic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using the chat client Digsby for a while now, and it&#8217;s pretty awesome. It&#8217;s comparatively new (less than a year), but quite stable, feature complete, and adds a bunch of new features that simplify things substantially. Cleanly integrates with all the traditional instant messenging systems, adding gtalk, facebook chat, and twitter. Integrates mail\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/01\/recommendation-digsby\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[73,64],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net","tag-review","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}