Software Map

naim is the original ncurses (console) AIM client, which also supports IRC, ICQ, and Lily CMC. For AIM and ICQ, it uses the TOC protocol, and includes many commonly-requested features found nowhere else, while still preserving naim's classic look and feel.

Gabber is a Jabber client for GNOME. Jabber is a flexible distributed Open Source instant messaging system. It also happens to allow communication with other instant messaging systems, such as ICQ, AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, and even IRC. Gabber aims to implement quite a bit of Jabber's functionality while remaining easy to use.

Laffer is a Web-based instant messenger client.
It supports ICQ, MSN, AOL, Yahoo, Jabber, and
other messenger networks. Laffer is written in
HTML and JavaScript, and it uses DOM 1.2 and PHP.
Laffer is capable of exchanging text messages,
contact list visualization, presence status
visualization, and getting information about the
user. No file, audio, or video exchange is
supported at the moment.

Adium X is a fast and lightweight, yet highly customizable, multiple protocol instant messaging application for Mac OS X. It uses libgaim, and is based on a plugin architecture. It features partial address book integration and a compact contact list.

SDBA Revolution is an open-source architecture written in Perl which simplifies and streamlines the process of writing applications that run on an instant messaging network. It
features easy scripting of IM responses, session variables which are consistent across messages, session time limits, support for multiple "apps" from one bot, basic security, the ability to use multiple access lists, and capabilities to allow external application integration. It makes writing IM apps very much like writing mod_perl or PHP pages. It currently supports AIM, MSN, ICQ, YIM, and Jabber. The homepage has full tutorials and documentation.

AIM Sniff is a utility for monitoring and
archiving AIM and MSN messages across a network.
It can be used to monitor for cases of harassment
or warez trading. It has the ability to do a live
dump (actively sniff the network) or read a PCAP
file and parse the file for IM messages. You also
have the option of dumping the information to a
MySQL database or STDOUT. AIM Sniff will also
monitor for an IM login and then perform an SMB
lookup on the originating computer in order to
match NT Domain names with IM login names
(handles).

Gaim-Encryption provides transparent RSA encryption as a
Gaim plugin using the Mozilla NSS libraries. Key sizes up to
4096 bits are supported. It works with Gaim on most
platforms, including Windows. Keys are automatically
generated, transmitted, and saved.

Kopete is a flexible and extendable multiple protocol instant messaging system designed as a plugin-based system. All protocols are plugins and allow modular installation, configuration, and usage without the main application knowing anything about the plugin being loaded. The goal of Kopete is to provide users with a standard and easy to use interface between all of their instant messaging systems, but at the same time also providing developers with the ease of writing plugins to support a new protocol. The core Kopete development team provides a handful of plugins that most users can use, in addition to templates for new developers to base a plugin on.

Scopserv Communicator is an audio/video Internet phone and instant messenger that supports some of the most popular VoIP and instant messaging protocols such as SIP, Jabber (XMPP), AIM/ICQ, MSN, Yahoo! Messenger, and a whole lot of other useful features. ScopServ Communicator is based on the SIP Communicator softphone.

AutoProfile is an extension to Gaim that allows
users to create customized away messages and
profiles using dynamic "components" that
automatically update on a regular basis. Generated text can include song names from XMMS, Winamp, iTunes, or Windows Media Player, snippets of Xanga and LiveJournal posts or other RSS feeds, statistics regarding saved conversation logs, a countdown/countup timer, fortune quotes, computer uptime, the contents of a Web page or a text file, the output of a program, and timestamps. A large number of options allows users to fully customize the program as they see fit.

SIM is multi-protocol plugin-based instant messenger program.