Hi! Is there any other program like ICQ messenger in the net that is more compact and lite ? And free 
Iām finally on Skype which has an IM component. The VOiP quality is also much better than I expected.
Trillian is a good one tooā¦ you can set it up with MS Messenger, ICQ, Yahoo, and AOL; so you have one SW running but you can chat with people across the different networks. Free too
Doesnāt Google have a chat app? Iām not a Gmail user so I havenāt checked it out.
And 37signals has something - campfire, I think - that is web-based rather than app-based and is supposedly intended for large group chat.
Well, for Windows, the best app I know of is Trillian.
For Mac (which is what I use myself), the best app I know of is Adium (www.adiumx.com).
Both those clients are compatible with many, many different networks (MSN, AOL, ICQ etc.). And as far as Adium is concerned, itās free and totally customizable (apperance-wise) and is generally a joy to use.
And yeah, Google has Google Talk - but I havenāt tried that out (heard very little about it as well, and what I heard was mixed)
And yeah, 37signals has Campfire, and as mentioned itās more of chatroom-type web-app, than a two-person dialog system like ICQ. But Campfire is very nice nontheless.
And if you want to go a little old-school thereās IRC (mIRC for Windows, and, I guess, Snak for the Mac) which is chatroom-centric as well and reminiscent of command-line interfaces.
And of course thereās always MSN Messenger for Windows/Mac (the Mac versionās not very good though) or iChat for the Mac.
And the list goes on:
Yahoo, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, Lotus Sametime, Novell Groupwiseā¦ etc
Nearly every Chinese person I know uses this chat app called āQQā.
isnāt the name āQQā somehow related to chinese slang for 'Bye Bye"?