I recently got an email from Brandon De Hoyos, the Guide to IM at About.com. They are hosting the “2008 IM Best Awards”, which will deliver top honors to the best instant messaging clients and their developers. About.com is accepting nominations for this honor in the following categories:

• Best Instant Messenger Experience, measuring overall user experience;
• Most Improved Instant Messenger, based on back-to-back client releases;
• Best Mac Instant Messenger, based on overall user experience;
• Best Third-Party IM
• Best IM Feature
• Best IM Developer(s) of the Year.

Winners in each category will be given featured Essentials placement for one year on http://im.about.com, in addition to all the bragging rights
among the IM community. These nominations must be e-mailed to im.guide@about.com for consideration.

Please show your support for Digsby by sending an email to Brandon at im.guide@about.com. Let me know why you love Digsby and which categories you want to nominate us for.

On another note, LifeHacker just published an article asking their readers, what is the best IM client? Check out the article and leave a comment here: http://lifehacker.com/374855/best-instant-messenger.

Thank you for your continued support as we make Digsby even better