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Linked-In, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Yammer, Yelp, even this blog…these are only the beginning of social networking sites and I don’t see any end in sight. In fact, social networking is so hot right now that the limits one can take with social networking seems well, limitless.

If you’re like me and have multiple social networking and IM accounts spread throughout the World Wide Web, then you know how annoying and time-consuming it is to have to navigate to each site and remember one of your many logins (the same password parameters all around would be helpful) just to update your status and keep up with what your friends are doing. It’s exhausting.

Enter Digsby to the rescue! 

This social networking tool combines several of the aforementioned social sites (but  not all) as well as some IM clients, and e-mail notifications into one application. The IM clients that Digsby currently supports include AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber. Have multiple e-mail accounts? No problem. Digsby allows users to manage their Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL, IMAP, and POP accounts. Remember those social networking sites you don’t want to individually log into? Digsby allows you to be fully connected to your Linked-In, Facebook, Twitter and MySpace pages at once.

All of these features display fully customizable pop-up notifications when you receive new e-mails and new status updates. The one and only disadvantage that I have found is that while Digsby allows you to make updates to Linked-In, Twitter and Facebook, it does not support instant updates to MySpace directly from the application, thus forcing users to click on the “Home” link at the top of the MySpace window from your taskbar.

Bottom line: This application is fun, convenient, and just downright cool. Check it out at www.digsby.com.

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