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Early Adopter Alert: Instantbird Launches .1 IM Aggregator Client
Update: It appears there are two sites, a .com and a .org – the .org talks about compiling. Since my post, I see the site admin added a huge message about going to the .com site to download compiled versions for Win/Mac/Linux. Great to see this correction so others don’t make the same mistake I did.
News out of Mashable-land is the pre-alpha 0.1 release of a new IM aggregator client named Instantbird. It ties into the XUL language which is compatible with Firefox and Thunderbird for easy extension creation. You have to compile this application after the download which makes it super-sexy to those early adopters. Wouldn’t it make sense to offer a pre-compiled Win/Mac version? Instantbird currently connects with the following networks:
- AIM
- Bonjour
- Gadu-Gadu
- Google Talk
- Groupwise
- ICQ
- MSN
- SILC
- SIMPLE
- Sametime
- XMPP
- Yahoo!
It seems similar to desktop client Trillian and Web IM clients Meebo and eBuddy. I can only imagine that the real power will come from the library of extensions.
And something to ponder: Since we know that none of these IM aggregators can access Skype, what about if Skype was to allow access to other networks inside their client. That might be a revenue-generation idea as well!
The name of the software is Instantbird and not Instabird.
Where did you see that is was a pre-alpha 0.1 release? It is just the first release.
Where did you see that you have to compile it?
No idea how I messed up Instabird and Instantbird – thanks for the correction.
here is the page for compiling:
http://www.instantbird.org/
It seems since my post they added a HUGE line about going to the .com site to download the application.
“You have to compile this application after the download which makes it super-sexy to those early adopters. Wouldn’t it make sense to offer a pre-compiled Win/Mac version?”
This is completely wrong. Obviously, you didn’t even went to the download page. Nobody has been asked to compile it.