Okay, so how many IM clients are you now running? Looking down at my laptop, I see 5 at the moment: MSN/WLM, Skype, GoogleTalk, Psi(Jabber) plus Mitel’s own product. I also sometimes have Gizmo and FWD running and use Miranda from time to time as well. I do have Yahoo!Messenger and AIM accounts, although I don’t honestly use them all that often. On my Blackberry I have IM+ and iSkoot… let’s call it 11or 12 of the consumer products that I normally have available. Per the list of 90+ IM tools out from Mashable yesterday, that still leaves me with around 80 or so to try. 🙂
What’s your count?
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I seem to be mainly down to two now, Pidgin and Skype. Pidgin covers MSN and GoogleTalk for me, which is where most of my contacts are.
One, Gaim (now Pidgin, but I prefer Gaim 1.5), which is in turn speaking Jabber (x3), AIM, MSN, and IRC. I don’t use ICQ and Yahoo IM anymore.
Google Talk is Jabber, so you can cut one out of the picture even now provided Psi lets you use multiple accounts. But I think you’d like Pidgin.
In fact, you might like Trillian Pro even more — it’s not free, but it speaks all of MSN, Jabber, AIM, IRC, Skype, and even enough SIP to talk to LCS. I haven’t tried any of the voice protocols with it myself though. The only reason I use Gaim over Trillian is that Trillian doesn’t act like an IRC client.
I should check out Skype now that it doesn’t feel like bringing work home. (Oh, drat, I don’t have Bluetooth on my laptop anymore.)