Chat applications

17Jan2008 Filed under: Geek Out

For anyone who’s curious, after five years with Trillian, I have recently defected to Meebo.com. So now I’ve gone from all my chat platforms in one application, to all my chat platforms in one browser window. I’m pleased with the switch. Teeny geeky things can make me so happy.

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6 Responses to “Chat applications”

Jack
January 17th, 2008 at 1:43 pm

http://www.pidgin.im/ is also a good alternative if you want to stick with desktop applications but don’t like Trillian.
emily
January 17th, 2008 at 5:59 pm

I am so not up on chat technology. I remember ICQ when I worked for a start up dot com in Chicago in the late 90s as being IT. As in it, not information technology.

Do you chat for work or simply personal?
Ariel
January 17th, 2008 at 6:26 pm

Both, Emily. My current job isn’t as IM intensive as my previous gigs have been (at both Movies.com and Jobster, IM was preferred over email) but I still chat for both work and pleasure.
Kate L
January 21st, 2008 at 9:49 pm

I’d be very interested to hear more about your reasons. I’ve been a happy Trillian user for years now (but am always curious about new stuff like this).

Were you ever able to get Trillian to work with Twitter? Because I can’t, and that one thing might be enough to drive me to another client.
Ariel
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:55 pm

Kate, my biggest complaint with Trillian was the agonizingly slow startup. That, and it always seemed buggy with MSN Messenger. Meebo does great with both those issues.
amber
February 6th, 2008 at 12:59 pm

i agree with the MSN Messenger bugs, and the start up is excruciating…but i didn’t like Meebo because my buddy icon disappeared. a seemingly insignificant detail that bothered me to no end

Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.

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