Twitter and Jaiku—these two similar services were battling it out for mini-blogging supremacy during a time when the average person had little to no knowledge of what mini-blogging was. Twitter came out on top, but don’t think for a second that it was because Twitter was better. Instead, it was a result of Twitter’s open API which allowed mind-blowing third-party products and services to be created. These third-party products and services have, in many respects, done phenomenally well for Twitter, but now there is a new player in town wanting to earn the respect of similar third-party developers.

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After writing an article about the mistakes I have made since becoming a professional blogger, I wanted to expand upon the points I made about not being social enough to become a successful blogger. It is actually an important issue, and I believe that new bloggers should make a significant effort to network themselves. Still, why bother?

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I don’t instant message too often, but when I do, I usually have around 4 - 6 different applications loaded. MSN, Yahoo, AIM, GTalk, ICQ take up system resources.  Digsby eliminates the need for having separate clients by combining them all into one.

People might be saying, “We have multi-protocol instant messaging clients like Trillian already,” but there is something about this that just makes me want to use it.  It just looks fantastic.  I also really enjoy how it pops up little notifications when someone receives a message, and how a user can reply directly within the notifications.

Also included is the functionality to connect to Facebook and MySpace for receiving alerts from our favorite social networking sites.  If a user has an account with either of these services, there is no reason not to be up-to-date on all his or her friend’s activities.

The icing on the cake?  Digsby allows users the ability to connect with several email services and protocols. This means I no longer have to keep Gmail loaded in my browser. I know I could have downloaded Gmail Notifier, but I didn’t want to waste resources for only that.  With this, it combines so many services into one that I have no problem using it.

It is a winner in my mind. I will have a full review on Tech In Demand either today or tomorrow.  Be sure to check it out!