IM Best Awards 2008 - The Nominees Are...

Your Vote Decides This Year's Hot List

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.