Marktopia

This seems like a few years ago when the IM “wars” were going on. Every other day it seemed that there was a new IM program on the block that was stealing the thunder from the big IM three (MSN, AIM, and Yahoo). To this day, the big 3 are still doing just fine and even a company like Google couldn’t dent it much. This is because once people chose a platform, they were unlikely to switch to a new one but they might sign for an account on it. Until the multichat clients came around, it was common to have 2-3 IM clients running at a given time. Well, I personally am interested in avoiding this problem with micro-blogging.

I now see a new “big 3″ in the micro-blogging taking control, Twitter, Jaiku and Pownce. It is early enough in the game that some people havn’t made their final decision, so I am curious about what people are using and why they are using that instead of the others. My goal out of this post is to hopefully gather people onto one platform so they and myself only have one thing to monitor. Some things that would be nice is a client that I can install on my machine that doesn’t cost too much (or anything), isn’t too buggy and is not very resource intensive.

So have at it in the comments, which system do you/would you like to use and why?

Note: I know that Pownce and Jaiku are invite only right now, but as a member of both, I have enough invites to get people going and spreading them around, so don’t have that be an issue for this discussion, please.