Saw this on TechCrunch a while back, and I have to say, I was excited. Looks like the new version of Trillian (Astra) is full of awesome upgrades and big improvements, with interoperability linking Gtalk, AIM, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ and now MySpace chat into one single and slick program.

Interoperability is important. It promotes healthy competition between market leaders, opens the door to consumer choice and, in our industry, streamlines reliable and powerful lines of digital communication regardless of your choice of system, protocol, or client. Because not everyone tends to agree with us, with every major release of Trillian we are obligated to keep things up-to-date to ensure that all of Trillian’s interoperable parts are running smoothly.

MySpace should be funding these guys or at least pushing their product with a few hundred grand in free advertising, since this is the one program that could actually compel me to use their chat program and put MySpace IM into real circulation.

Ok. little update. Apparently MySpace IM is doing a gajillion installs per day, and Trillian is barely scraping the 500k user base mark…so I stand somewhat corrected here. This information btw, comes from the person who developed IM for MySpace, so it is accurate I am assuming. Personally, I know no-one that uses MySpace chat…do you?