I installed Flock, AIM, and Instant Bird today.  Among all the work I have been doing on danielvining.com, today I also installed AIM for the first time since at least 2006.  I grew really tired of all the junk associated with AOL in general, so I dropped the service.  I currently find myself in a position where having this service will provide yet another means of contact to friends, relatives, and my online community friends.

Since I do have multiple service accounts, I am experimenting with an all-in-0ne chat client for the first time.  I choose Instant Bird to start, but I will most likely try out a few different clients until I find the best one for my needs.  My needs are simple.  One client program that can accomodate my Yahoo, AIM, Skype, IRC, and G-Talk accounts.  I don’t expect that I will be able to totally meet those requirements, but I am going to try.  The possibility of having one program take the place of four or five is enough to keep me searching.  Suggestions are welcome.

Finally today, well actually a couple days ago, I installed the Flock web browser.  I started exploring this interesting browser based on the Mozilla engine.  So far, I am a little over whelmed by this alternative take at social aggregation.  It is going to take a lot more time and exploration before I can decide if I like it over any of the others.  My current browser of choice in Google Chrome.  Perhaps the reason for this Chrome’s simplicity.  It has plenty of features for me, including being able to save a shortcut as an application.

I installed these programs to better help me communicate with anyone on the internet.  My bet is that the more old fashion means of communication will still stay in the foreground.  Telephone, Email, and IRC.  Only time will tell if I will decide to use an agrigator to condense the many perspectives I get from using the many different programs, but I am willing to give it a try.