Five Facebook Talk Desktop Clients For Mac And Windows – Adweek
Five Facebook Talk Desktop Clients For Mac And Windows
Facebook with more than four hundred million users is largest social network out there and with Facebook Talk, also one of the main players in IM market. Many people don's see a reason why use other instant messengers while all their friends and colleagues are over at Facebook.
Albeit Facebook Talk is very popular, web interface lacks many features you would like to see on your IM client, that's why we provide you with best and utter function Facebook Talk desktop clients for Windows and Mac platforms.
Digsby
Digsby is very powerful client that knows the “language” of many popular social networks and email services. I will name just largest platforms: Facebook Talk, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Talk, MSN, ICQ, Yahoo, Gmail, Yahoo mail, AOL/AIM Mail and others. It can indeed become your only software to update all your networks, check email and talk with pals. Digsby is available for Windows – Mac and Linux versions coming soon (Thanks Mihnea!).
Check out this movie to see main features and how it all works:
Adium
Adium is the most popular IM client among Mac users mainly because of features it may suggest to mac users. As it is developed specifically for Mac it runs very slick have native interface. Adium offers large number of services you can integrate together: AOL, MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk, ICQ, Facebook Talk and others. If you own Mac – attempt Adium!
Pidgin
Pidgin is superb client for Windows and Unix systems, albeit it doesn't support Facebook talk by default you can integrate it using this plugin. Besides that you will be able to connect with your friends on large number of networks and recall plug-ins, they suggest almost unlimited possibilities for developers to add fresh features and networks.
Chit Talk For Facebook
App that is built specifically for Facebook and if you don't want to get crazy integrating everything in one desktop client (trust me, it can be very annoying) you can go and install Chit Talk. This IM doesn't have nothing too fancy, but there are all basic features you may want to require for Facebook Talk. Runs on windows only.
Palringo
Palringo have strong concentrate on mobile devices and if you like to use your phone for connecting to your friends – attempt this app. Presently it have applications for Android, Iphone, iPod Touch, Blackberry, Simbian, Windows mobile and Java application. Also supporting large number of social networks and IM platforms – check out utter list on their site.