IM Best Awards 2008 - The Nominees Are...

In March 2008, we asked our readers to nominate their favorite instant messengers in six categories for our first ever IM Best Awards, a celebration of the best in the IM industry. After more than 200 nominations and 22,000 votes cast during the two-part contest, the winners were finally revealed in April.

The nominees for the 2008 contest were as follows:

Best Instant Messenger Experience

• Digsby
• Meebo
• Yahoo! Messenger 9.0
• Windows Live Messenger

Most Improved Instant Messenger

• Coccinella
• Digsby
• Meebo
• Pidgin 2.0

Best Mac Instant Messenger

• Adium
• iChat
• Yahoo! Messenger for Mac

Best Third-Party IM

• Adium
• Digsby
• Meebo
• Miranda
• Pidgin

Best IM Feature

• In-Line Media Player, Yahoo! Messenger
• Off the Record Plugin, Digsby
• Social Networking/E-mail Integration, Digsby
• IM-to-Text Capabilities, Multiple Clients

IM Developers of the Year

• DotSyntax, for Digsby
• Evan Schoenberg and Team Adium, for Adium
• Mats Bengtsson, for Coccinella
• Team Meebo, for Meebo

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  Did your favorite IM client win? Check out the winners of the 2008 IM Best Awards.