Adium Book is a utility that can synchronise Adium’s contact list and your Address Book.

The new version (1.3) released today is a universal binary, features some performance tweaks to improve the app’s speed and fixes some issues with Jabber accounts. It also offers support for multiple IM accounts in its Address Book view.

The interface has been reworked:

With Adium Book you can add Adium contacts to Address Book or update the information on an Address Book card using data from Adium.

It allows full text search of Adium contacts and Address Book and provides a range of reports, among them a listing of contacts without pictures, contacts in Adium but not in Address Book or a listing of contacts by IM service.

Adium book is donation-ware and is available from the Adium Extra’s web site or the developer’s webs site .not apple mail, adium, address book, contacts, IM, chat, universal, reports, instant messaging

A few months ago Hawk Wings blogged a Business Week report that claimed email has had its day. Generation Xers and corporations alike are switching to instant messaging, wikis, collaborative blogging and other Web 2.0 innovations in order to get things done.

It turns out that Stowe Boyd predicted the death of email in the Summer of 2004 at the Supernova conference. He was hounded from the podium by cynical hecklers.

We shouldn’t mourn email’s passing, Boyd says:

It should be obvious that the only thing that email is well-suited for is things that look suspiciously like spam: broadcasting a static message to many, many people…

…So this will be the year when it becomes truly obvious — even to those dinosaurs who wanted to tar-and-feather me at Supernova — that email’s days are numbered. Not that it will disappear — surface mail and fax will linger on due to the long-tail of communication media — but it will clearly be a byway, and not the highway, for communication and collaboration.

Better start a blog about iChat.

According to an article in Business Week, the killer app of the internet, email, has had its day.

Postini, a Californian email filtering business, forecasts that legitimate e-mail will drop to 8% this year, down from 12% last year. According to Business Week, “the onetime productivity wonder has turned into a maddening time waster.”

Because email’s signal-to-noise ratio is now so great, companies like Walt Disney, Kodak, Yahoo! and the U.S. military are dropping email as the prime medium of cooperation in favour of wikis, blogs and instant messaging.