Readers Respond: Which IM Clients Deserve to Be "Honorable Mentions"?

Which IM clients are missing that you feel ought to receiving some "Honorable Mentions"? Share your favorite IM clients that aren't nominated this year for the Best IM category, and why you feel they should have been included in this year's awards. Which IMs are Missing?

Webuzz

Webuzz.im is one of the best IM. It is just not widely known.

—vb84t7j3

ICQ!

The best for me is ICQ, fast, good looking, and most of europeans use it!

—od000038

The.45Gunslinger@yahoo.com

Yahoo is the best in all areas. I have used it for years and intend to continue to use it.

—Guest Hawk

Yahoo

Yahoo by far is the very best...I've never missed a message online or off..I can't believe Yahoo isn't nominated... Far better than anything else out there..I've used ICQ before, I've used MSN Messenger before, neither can top what Yahoo delivers...Yahoo stands by it's word and if ever there is a problem they are right on top of it getting it resolved. I wouldn't use any other program now other than Yahoo! Not only is the chat program reliable the email is nothing less than PERFECTION! Everything I do is through Yahoo because they are true to their word and to me that means everything!

—Guest Marlene Lawson

Yahoo Messenger EPIC FAIL

Yahoo Messenger FAILBUS this client shouldn't even be mentioned their customer service is horrible.

—ifyouknew

Mig33 best 2010 IM

As chat prowler :p i have tested many above IMs and finally i chose to use mig33 as a very cool mobile chat application, so my vote goes to mig33 and i wish that mig33 select as winner, according polling there is core competetion between IMs but mig33 is still on top..

—Guest f0rgiv3_me

Bogus

ANY vote that doesn't include Yahoo Messenger as a choice, for whatever reason you come up with, is a bogus poll. It's that simple.

—Guest Tom

skewed results

My Yahoo instant messenger just alerted me to vote for it in this. Certainly that skews the results tremendously in its favor.

—Guest livings124

It should be Yahoo Messenger

I had previously been a predominantly MSN messenger user, have tried various clients in the past, icq, miranda, trillian, the google messenger etc. Recently switched onto yahoo and heck has it improved since the last time i had used it. In fact, it is now my favourite IM by far. Great interface design, only downside is it's a little sluggish to load at startup. But its much nicer to use than MSN which seems to be the defacto messenger for most people i know.

—Guest Andrew

Yahoo IM is missing

I think yahoo IM is best one now a days and i can't yahoo IM in the list any where ? soo how come i can vote to it ???

—Guest Perfect.Stranger

Yahoo IM

Yahoo IM for PC should be listed! It has tons of features and is user friendly.

—Guest hardin_family

TENCECT QQ

It comes in English and is full of great features. Easy to use remote desktop. Video call, games, music player, QQ space and email. Very popular in Asia. I think it has about 300 million users. QQ games are slowly integrating with facebook, tweeter, and other major social networks. If you like try new things give this a shot. QQ 516856561

—Guest TORRES

Why Certain Clients Aren't Nominated

After receiving over 5100 nominations, we tallied the results and the top five were placed as finalists for the final vote. While Meebo, eBuddy and Yahoo! are great clients (Yahoo and eBuddy ARE included in this year's finalists), they did not receive ENOUGH nominations to be included for all 8 categories in the BEST IMs. Maybe next year they'll be more involved in getting their users involved! IMs who promote the nominations process usually fair better in nominations and voting!

—BrandonIM

Missing IM services

the following messenger clients were missing from all categories Meebo, yahoo, ebuddy

—Guest Matthew Davenport

WindowsLive messenger

I like WindowsLive Messenger! I have some friends on there who don't use YahooIM

—LadyPolgara