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So in the onwards hunt to find cool stuff about my new employer, I found a very interesting area of alphaworks called Sametime Plug-in for Trillian.

For those of you not in the know, Trillian is a very cool multiple message network IM client for windows, coming in a basic (free) and pro (small donation needed) version, its pretty much the ipso facto multi-IM client tool out there, supporting plugins and a nice user friendly UI..

Now I know myself and quite a number of other people inside Ascential use Trillian as their messaging client, mainly because we’re a hap hazard bunch that use various IM clients and networks to keep in contact.

But with the move to IBM, we’re obviously all going to be on Sametime as our IM network, but that still leaves non Ascential people to keep in contact with (partners, clients, family etc..)

So this IBM official plugin looks pretty cool, not just because IBM is rapidly going up in my view as a pretty cool company (blogs, podcasts, support of growing technologies), but their support for something like trillian means I can keep Trillian Pro as my IM client, and not have to have more software on my TabletPC than needed..