I use Bitlbee as a unified messaging platform and it works great for me: http://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/news.r.html http://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/news.r.html

I use Bitlbee as a unified messaging platform and it works great for me: http://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/news.r.html http://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/news.r.html Obviously it's a little neckbeard-ey but once you get it setup, it's awesome to have AIM, FB, Google Chat, HipChat, Campfire (and any other Jabber account) all in one little box. The only thing it's missing for me is iMessages support. You can also wire up Twitter with it, but I found it too tricky to parse tweets without avatars / inline images, etc.