Hats off to Gizmo Project. Gizmo5 lets me IM on four different networks from my mobile, with a unified buddy list and a consistent conversation view across all networks. Awesome. But the big to-do about MySpace support last week is really not that big a deal, now that I’ve actually tried it.

The way it works, the Gizmo backend server uses IM to collect your Myspace account information and then logs into your account, parses information out of your profile, and sends you text-based alerts when that information changes. Yeah, really–that’s about ALL there is to it. Oh, and it will forward MySpace IM messages to and from your phone. But you can’t browse your MySpace buddy list unless you want to send texts back and forth to the IM-based “agent” they’ve built.
Not exactly the kind of interactivity I was hoping for. Let’s hope version 2 is more fruitful.