![]() IM is our most requested feature on Tagged,” said Tagged’s CEO Greg Tseng at the time.īut fast forward to today, and none of Digsby itself ever made it into Tagged. “They have expertise and technology in real-time communications which we want to use to push into instant messaging, group chat, video chat, etc. All seven employees of developer dotSyntax were joining the company and the idea eventually was to incorporate features of Digsby into Tagged, which, unlike, Facebook is primarily about meeting new people (similar to Badoo) than it is about reconnecting with those you already know. Back when Tagged bought the company - the first-ever acquisition for the 330-million-member, 225-country social network - it was intended partly as an aqui-hire and partly as a tech purchase. The move gives a new lease of life to Digsby, which integrates different messaging and email clients into a single, unified view. ![]() The intention to make Digsby open source was first announced in July of this year, but TechCrunch understands that it’s only been in the last day that the source code has been completely migrated. It has now been taken open source, with its code now living on GitHub. A new chapter today for Digsby, the social/instant messaging client bought by social network Tagged in April 2011 and effectively put into an idle state soon after.
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