Gnomie Tim Stapleton writes:

Chris,

Recently I was reading an article in my local newspaper about a local college student who has developed a new “all-in-one” IM program called Digsby that not only supports the regular AIM, Jabber, ICQ, Yahoo!, and Google Talk, but incorporates your email as well as your MySpace and Facebook accounts.

There are downloadable versions for Windows OS, Mac OS, as well as Linux. I downloaded it and, in my opinion, it works fairly well; it is still the beta version. The thing that I like most about it is, as mentioned, the incorporation of one’s social networks and email right into the program so that when you move your mouse over the status bar for the particular account that you want to look at, it brings up a pop up window so you can see your inbox or the status of your buddies on your social network of choice.

On the email end of things you can set up a variety of accounts including POP, IMAP, Yahoo!, Hotmail, and Gmail. Also, it has many different features with which you can personalize your account.

You can find the article about the program and a brief video about it here.

And the Web site for the program itself is here.