Simkl.com - Record and Save All Your IM Chats

Maybe you like to keep a record of all your chats and conversations out of some touch of paranoia, or perhaps you simply like to cherish all those little talks you’ve acquired throughout your days—well, up until now there really hasn’t been a way to backup your IM conversations. Now there’s Simkl a web app which lets us save chats and backup our contacts on MSN, ICQ, Yahoo and AOL, precisely. There’s absolutely nothing to download. You do have to set up an account and set your client’s connection to a different proxy server. After that’s done, Simkl will record all of your conversations and store them on their servers; they can be viewed by logging into history.im. Simkl doesn’t ask for any passwords or login info, and histories can be deleted if you choose.

“Simkl automatically saves all of your important IM conversations on a secured web server, the same way you save your e-mails. And more importantly Simkl does not ask you to install any software, so no viruses or adware ever. Sign up and you will have easy access to your IM conversations from any computer.”

Simkl could be a very useful tool for those who frequently use IM as a means to conduct their jobs and collaborate remotely. Business types who like to keep track of their data along with those who like to backup everything are bound to find the app very handy. Set up is easy, and the user remains in control as Simkl fortunately doesn’t require and installation and it doesn’t ask for login info.

Is this really secure? Is it wise to keep logs of you IM conversations? (Privacy fanatics would think otherwise) Does it work on mobile devices?