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Windows Live Messenger makes it easier than ever to stay connected to the people you care about.
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Google Talk is a simple and free way to talk with and send instant messages to your friends. Like Gmail, Google Talk uses Google's innovative technologies to help people communicate more effectively and efficiently. Think of it as Google's approach to communications.
Google Talk is easy and intuitive to use. All you need to make free calls is an Internet connection, a microphone, and a speaker. After you download Google Talk, sign in with your Gmail username and password. Invite your friends to download Google Talk, and once they do, you'll be able to talk or IM with them instantly.
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Windows Live Messenger makes it easier than ever to stay connected to the people you care about.
Favorites and groups
Put the people you chat with most at the top of your contacts, so you easily see when they’re online. Want to chat with several people in one window? Just set up a group.
Customize
Show off your personal style with custom scenes, animated display pictures, and signature sounds.
Share photos
Look at photos together, right in the conversation window. And Messenger tells you when people you know post new photos on Windows Live.
Mobile and web
Using a public computer without Messenger? No problem! You can chat on the web from Windows Live Hotmail. Or, use Messenger on your mobile phone.
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Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more.
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meebo.com is a website for instant messaging from absolutely anywhere. Whether you’re at home, on campus, at work, or traveling foreign lands, hop over to meebo.com on any computer to access all of your buddies (on AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ and Jabber) and chat with them, no downloads or installs required, for free! \\n meebo launched in September 2005 and received funding from Sequoia Capital in December 2005 and Draper Fisher Jurvetson in January 2007. Today, our users exchange over 80 million instant messages daily. We (the meebo team) are just a fun bunch of people trying to bring IM to the web!
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Pidgin is a GTK+ instant messaging application for Windows and Unix. It supports AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE and more. See http://pidgin.im/about for more information.
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aMSN is a free open source MSN Messenger clone, with features such as:

 

1. Display pictures
2. Custom emoticons
3. Multi-language support (around 40 languages currently supported)
4. Webcam support
5. Sign in to more than one account at once
6. Full-speed File transfers
7. Group support
8. Normal, and animated emoticons with sounds
9. Chat logs
10. Timestamping
11. Event alarms
12. Conferencing support
13. Tabbed chat windows

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Jabber Client
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Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends.
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ICQ (or I Seek You) instant messaging service is used by millions worldwide to make the complicated work of finding friends, colleagues and people with similar interests, as straightforward as calling across a room and starting a friendly conversation.
With ICQ Instant Messenger you can video/audio chat, send email, SMS and wireless-pager messages, as well as transfer files and URLs. If youre away from your personal computer you can still chat with friends and contacts, even where the ICQ client is not installed, by using the web-based ICQ2Go that works from any computer.
With ICQ 5 you can customize your ICQ to be exactly what you need and always up-to-date by adding shortcuts to your favorite features in order to launch them directly from your ICQ. This means that you can send your friends & contacts greeting cards and invitations to games, multi chats, video sessions, and more directly from your client and/or the message window. In the message window you can also choose to display your photo or one of ICQs unique, animated devils.
ICQphone incorporates IP telephony functions enabling you to engage in PC-to-PC and PC-to-phone calls. Used in multiple-user mode, groups can conduct conferences or play games with ICQ. In fact, ICQ supports a variety of popular Internet applications and serves as a Universal Platform from which you can launch peer-to-peer applications.
Basically ICQ brings together the most widely used methods of communication in the simplest way.

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Trillian is a fully featured, stand-alone, skinnable chat client that supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC. It provides capabilities not possible with original network clients, while supporting standard features such as audio chat, file transfers, group chats, chat rooms, buddy icons, multiple simultaneous connections to the same network, server-side contact importing, typing notification, direct connection (AIM), proxy support, encrypted messaging (AIM/ICQ), SMS support, tabbed chatting, system-tray notifications and alerts, and privacy settings.
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Xfire is a tool that automatically keeps track of when and where gamers are playing PC games online and lets their friends join them easily. It works regardless of game type, server browser, or gaming service that a player is using. Xfire eliminates the hassles of running multiple programs like IRC, instant messengers, or in-game friends lists to keep track of when and where a gamers friends are playing. Instant messaging is geared for gamers, so IM windows do not pop-up while you are playing a game and Xfire can show instant messages within the actual game interface for many games that it supports. It supports the best and the latest online PC games including over 200 server- and non-server-based First Person Shooters, Real Time Strategy, and Role Playing Games.
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mIRC is a popular Internet Relay Chat client used by millions of people, and thousands of organizations, to communicate, share, play and work with each other on IRC networks around the world. Serving the Internet community for over a decade, mIRC has evolved into a powerful, reliable and fun piece of technology.
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"Our all-in-one, easy-to-use way to enjoy the best of the Internet on your phone."
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ChatZilla provides all the usual IRC client features: multiple servers, a built-in list of standard networks, easy searching and sorting of available channels, logging, and DCC chat and file transfers, plus easy customization with JavaScript plug-ins and CSS styling.
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'Paltalk Chat (www.paltalk.com) lets you see, hear, share files and chat with anyone, anywhere in the world - all for FREE. When you chat on Paltalk, you can instant message with your buddies from AOL, MSN, Yahoo!, and ICQ Messengers, as well as chat with more than 4,000,000 active Paltalk users. When you sign on, youll have access to more than 4,000 video chat rooms, where users publish LIVE video from their webcams and talk to each other in real-time. If you want to chat without the video and voice features, you can always instant message and use Paltalk to chat with text.
Were offering users a trial of our high-quality streaming video and audio for absolutely free. Paltalk Chat x-Treme service allows users to experience crystal clear, TV-like video speed and unlimited video windows. Our newest version, Paltalk Chat 8.2, includes hundreds of new Emoticons, a new 'nudge' feature, and dozens of video overlays (fun animations that work with your webcam). Use Paltalk Chat to streamline your instant messaging experience, make new friends, and chat with live voice and video. Download now and starting chatting in minutes!
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QIP is a freeware program for online communication. It`s one of the most popular instant messengers. It is used by many thousands of users. QIP is for instant message delivery and feedback.
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"ICQ2Go! is a web-based installation-free ICQ version. With the essential communication tools, it offers a solution for connecting from Internet Cafes and other computers, where download and installation is not an option."
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Paltalk Messenger
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AOL AIM is the next generation release of AOL Instant Messenger. Using the AIM Buddy List feature, see when your buddies are online and available to instant message. The sleek new design takes instant messaging to the next level. With screen name linking, Mobile IM, Quicknote mail, an integrated Address Book, and much, much more, instant messaging is more accessible, powerful and more fun than ever.
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