Some of you might remember I wrote about this project sometime ago, when it was starting. From that time up to now the project was stopped, and pretty much left for dead. Of the original team, only Procton (you might know him from BeShare or IRC) had been working on it, and he had no time for it.

But good news. Recently, someone picked the project up and has been working on it, namely, Mikael Eiman (author of, among others, LnLauncher and LnRogue). In a post at the yellowTab Forums, he mentions what he's working on presently:

* Tracker integration (indexed IM status updates will let you make queries for people of a certain status, and the usual attributes like group etc are still there so you can query for "family who are online" and such).
* People-file <> Several IM connections
* One-on-one conversations, protocol independent * More protocols through add-ons

We have a couple of interesting screenshots for you as well, where you can see his early work and where the potential for the IMKit is quite easy to spot. Here's screenshot 1 and 2.

A very interesting project, be sure we at ICO will keep following its progress and will let you know of any advances. Stay tuned!