Instabird: Mozilla’s IM Client

October 23rd, 2007 | Published in IM

( Yes, Dave, you did scoop me on this one!) Mozilla has announced a new IM client called Instabird. The client will let you use several instant messaging services, including:

AIM
Gadu-Gadu
Google Talk
ICQ
MSN
QQ
XMPP
Yahoo!

I’m not even sure who some of those are, but they’ve got the main ones covered, so I’m good. The download is available now, but you should be warned that this is an early beta, and despite what the web 2.0 world would have you believe, that does actually mean something. This early version is a little rough, with many features not implemented yet. However, it is open source, so you can download the source code and modify it, if you choose.