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by icebraining 5019 days ago
We use Google Talk (it's just XMPP, so you can use an OSS client like Pidgin) and email. But you shouldn't discount IRC just because of that: many clients offer or at least let you add graphical notifications: my favorite client, Weechat[1], has plugins for libnotify/dbus, Growl and OS X Notification Center. I'm sure other clients offer similar functionality.

[1]: http://www.weechat.org/