Applications

So you’ve got your AIM account from the good ole days, Facebook, Twitter and now you’re even using Google Buzz. You also use and have contacts across gmail, yahoo, msn/live, skype and maybe even a few others. What do you do? Well, for many users, the answer is to log in and out of various applications and services individually as needed, which can be a bit daunting as your list of contacts grows over time. I’ve personally been using Gmail and AIM integration for the last year or so, but I’ve found as my contact list has grown, so has the number of preferred clients for the people I want to speak with on a regular basis. For many, the preferred method of contact with not-so-close contacts is facebook chat, for others its Yahoo! Messenger, Live messenger, Twitter, etc. Each of the networks/sites/protocols can have a specific use, and what’s more confusing is that many people have multiple profiles/accounts with each of the networks. Keeping up with a complex social web of chat, messages, alerts, notifications, statuses, events and more across a ton of platforms can be extremely difficult, to the point where we actually lose much of the efficiency gained from being able to communicate easily on the web. So the goal of this search was to find the best mode of managing all of this in an easy to use and intuitive interface. I tested a bunch of software platforms and found one that I like.
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