After trying out many different instant messaging programs over the years I have settled on Pidgin in the past few years. It is lightweight, incorporates all of the services I use frequently, and works seamlessly in Ubuntu.  Actually, not so frequently I guess; I am only signed in for a little while each day. In the age of Twitter, FriendFeed, and other similar services instant messaging seems like a relic of a time long past.

Pidgin runs on XMPP. Recently, one of the XMPP team members was on the excellent open source podcast FLOSS.


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