Update: The folks at Trillian released an update today.

When you run your own small or medium-sized business, it’s becoming increasingly crucial to leverage instant messaging, and on mobile phones, that’s been a rather cumbersome experience, with separate apps for each of the major IM platforms (Yahoo!, MSN, GTalk, etc.).

While some of those are pretty good (and others are not), there’s a (large) negative impact on your battery life to run them all simultaneously, and they all have very different user interfaces (ranging from the great, to the dismal).

On a computer, there are some fantastic multi-protocol applications, such as Digsby & Trillian, which allow you to be logged-into all of your IM accounts simultaneously, through a consistent user interface.

While the folks @ Digsby haven’t done much to move to the Android mobile world, Trillian recently released a public beta of their new Android app, and it’s pretty exciting!

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