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ICQ is a good client... MSN better, imho... but both are just such memory hogs supporting crappy organizations. *cough*evil*cough*

Clients like Odigo already communicate on all the current IM servers, and it's nice to see they'll stay.

Icq... 30 MB memory... bitch...

Screw 3...

They could do good things for the internet community. I'l like them to form a partnership with Odigo, and try to knock AIM and ICQ down a few notches. I really thinnk they'd be wasting opportunity if they didn't catch onto instant messaging soon after the merge.

Just my .02. I use Odigo, and although it's compatible with the AOL networks, I'd like to have connections to more using Odigo's native network.

Anybody ever heard of Odigo? It combines ICQ, AIM and Yahoo messenger into one...very nicely I might add.

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rhino

Odigo is an AOL and ICQ-compliant IM. Whenever AOL finds a way to cut them off, Odigo releases a patch fix a day later :)

But the cool part is that you can go online to the AIM, Yahoo! and ICQ networks from one IM interface. The only quip is that AOL sets up some block regularly (at least last time I used Odgio, need to set it up on my home/new work box). But Odigo would inevitably bypass it.

Overall, I liked it and used it. It also allowed you to find people (If you're looking for love, conversation, etc.) by profiles or make yourself invisible. They are making a Mac version now, which they didn't before...don't see why they wouldn't make a Linux version. Would the source open up? Dunno! Anyone else use it/know of any Odigo for Linux movements?

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Galego

Odigo Messenger does the same thing. The main problem: your surfing habits can be collected and used for "marketing purposes." This is spyware. Know what you're sending.
Another minor quibble: Odigo doesn't show up in the Taskbar, and the only way to manipulate it is to use the tray to bring its window to the front. The developers went to the Winamp School of UI Design: make small widgets that are unintuitive and have no obvious keyboard alternatives. Would it kill them to make a messenger client that isn't full of shiny things?

I got sick of having two clients open when using win32, so i decided to try odigo. As of its latest release it is not too shabby, as it combines a ton of clients. some features are kinda iffy tho. like file transfer, and reading other people's away messages... i know open source has this problem mostly licked..... shame more open source win32 apps are not out there....

It's called odigo. Sadly it's only for windows.

Personally I would like to see Everybuddy ported to Win32, it seems like a great program. Hopefully, using the standard Win32 GUI API calls instead of custom or GTK ones, especially since Whistler will feature its own skinning method, and afaik, GTK for Windows is not that stable (or popular, and who needs more libraries?).

You can use ODIGO . It speaks ICQ and AIM, runs on windows though. (Unix/linux has Everybuddy, what an easy thing to install on my BSD box :> )

Don't be fooled!

I've used ICQ for a couple of years now (not by choice but because it's the most convenient way to stay in touch with a lot of people I know.

The interface was a million times better before AOL took over. It was very intuitive, but after AOL took it they mostly seemed to bulk add space for advertising, a few extra redundant features as well as half-incorporating the web, and they didn't seem to care about code maintenance at all. The result was a buggy, horrible interface.

If you have to use ICQ, try to get either an older version of it (on the early side of 0.9x), or use an ICQ clone. There are lots of clones listed on freshmeat, but I'm not sure if many would compile for a Windows box. Alternatively you could try something like Odigo which talks to ICQ and looks quite cool. Last time I tried it it still crashed a bit and the window wasn't very resizable, but otherwise it was great.