My favorite feature of digsby by far is the little balloon that pops up on your main screen with the info you have asked digsby to provide, the best part of this is that if someone sends you an IM you can type your response right into the balloon, no switching to the IM client window, this is really handy if you just need to send a quick reply back to someone and is much less disruptive. The other most excellent feature is the ability to combine multiple contacts into one, if you have friends on more than one network you can group them into one contact on Digsby and they show up with whichever service they logged in under but you only have one contact entry. It also has a great chat widget for Facebook or that you can embed in a blog. What makes that cool is that when someone hits your page you see a guest show up under digsby chat in the Buddy List.

There is also a Mac OSX and a Linux client in the works. I am hoping that they will add other social networking sites in the future as well as a mobile client that way I could use digsby everywhere!

I have had a great time meeting people, discovering services and learning the jargon. It’s a fantastic world out there and services like Twitter, Plurk, Indent.ca, Tumbler and Pownce are full of great people that have something to share. Sometimes it’s about breakfast and sometimes its about the more serious things in life. There is a fantastic amount of information shared, and it is being used to motivate people, like this recent blood drive in Austin Texas. This is the aspect of the social network that I find so fascinating. The idea that as you build a group of followers, that you interact with, share stories with or just listen to, you can wield a great deal of internet clout. An a-list blogger who undoubtedly uses most if not all of the aforementioned micro-blogging services and has a following of several thousand people can drive traffic to a website for the purposes of promotion or because they don’t like something that is on a particular site.

The addition of easy video services like Seesmic and Stickam will also change the dynamic of the web in a large way. Adding a face takes away the safety of anonymity and provides for a different type of interaction. Leo Laporte is an excellent example of this. He has recently set himself up in his own studio with some cool gear on a reasonable budget (from traditional TV production studios) and is broadcasting 6 days a week at Twitlive.tv. He is usually recording one of his many podcasts with other Twits who are either in the studio or who join him via Skype. He also takes live video calls through Skype and ooVoo as well as from Stickam users in between recordings and just generally talks tech.

It’s going to be really amazing to watch this evolve further over the next few years, but I think we will see a lot more indpendant production making headway over the major traditional broadcasters.

Here is a screenshot of my Plurk page, it has got a really great user interface:

If you decide to check out Plurk, tell them I sent you and add me with this link.