Digsby getting closer to real-time

Digsby, the popular IM and social media client, is getting closer to being the only application you need to access the social web. Digsby has long had Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and LinkedIn as part of the application, and today is looking to improve on all of them. It also announced a partnership with OneRiot, the real-time search engine that recently opened up its API for anyone to use.

The biggest change in Digsby is arguably one that most people won’t care too much about. Digsby has improved its MySpace support, which will now include status updates, Activity Streams, and full photo browsing right from Digsby. Sounds like a great idea, but would see much more use if it were from Facebook. What people can do with Facebook using the new version of Digsby is update their status globally. The new version includes what Digsby is calling “Global Status,” which will change your status on all social networks attached to Digsby as well as IM accounts. Sounds like a no-brainer, which makes its inclusion welcome, if not strange that it wasn’t there before.

Digsby is also announcing digs.by, a URL shortener that will hopefully be more reliable than tr.im, in addition to a new Windows 7 theme which fits in with the rest of the new OS. Digsby is one of the few applications that, as a Mac and Linux user, makes Windows looks good. Sure, it can take up a lot of RAM, but the fact that it combines so many other applications into one is certainly a nice feature. There has been an option to sign up for emails when the other OS versions come out, but those emails have yet to come. In the mean time, Windows users get these pretty cool features in one application while I run Adium, Mail and Tweetie just to have some of the capabilities of Digsby.

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