Computers and internet have been part of our everyday life for a long time and many of us have been born in the middle of this interactive media. We seek information and we share it actively. We use social media services to tell people what is up with our lives and we seek information about others. Information is sought to help make decisions and status updates are done to tell others how you feel and where you are going. The amount of information that´s out there is overwhelming and yet we feel we must be aware of everything what´s going on out there. Why we do it? Because knowledge is power and wherever there is interaction and exchange there is quality of mind – collective intelligence [1].
Digsby (www.digsby.com) is a little piece of software that tries to provide help with this information overload. It is a multiprotocol IM client that combines AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk and Jabber to one single buddy list. Not only does it handle all your IMs, it also handles your Email accounts (Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL/AIM Mail, IMAP, and POP account) and even your Social Networking messages from Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and LinkedIn accounts [2]. Sounds cool? It actually is!
I don´t remember how and when I came up with Digsby, but I must say all has been easy since. I´m using it to follow all my non-work related Emails, my MSN IM and my Facebook and LinkedIn profiles. Going those through all separately would take ages, but with Digsby it is as easy as it gets.
[1] David Skrbina, Participation, Organization, and Mind: Toward a Participatory Worldview, http://www.bath.ac.uk/carpp/publications/doc_theses_links/d_skrbina.html, 2008, 296[2] Digsby, http://www.digsby.com, 2011
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