Even if a chat platform doesn’t like third parties, many do have web apps, and that’s where a useful new Chrome app called All-in-One Messenger comes in. Making matters worse this time around, many of today’s chat apps aren’t third-party friendly.
In many ways, we’re right back where we were in the late ’90s and early aughts before apps like Adium and Digsby consolidated AOL, Google Talk, MSN, and Yahoo into one window. The modern world has a messaging problem: There are just too darn many apps and almost no one can get away with using just one.
