InsideMessenger is a free Instant Messaging Agent that you can customise to access your favourite web content.

You can watch videos, read news feeds, check your calendar, find flights, search the web and play games, all within a simple Instant Messaging conversation.

To check it out, simply add chat@insidemessenger.com to your Windows Live Messenger contact list, and then start chatting to InsideMessenger like you would to any of your friends and InsideMessenger will guide you through the rest.

The website for InsideMessenger is here.