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Buddy Spotlight integrates iChat and Spotlight allowing you to search for online iChat buddies with Spotlight. Simply run Buddy Spotlight and when iChat is online, your buddies will show up in Spotlight. Selecting a buddy in Spotlight will immediately start a new conversation. That means you can start conversations with them from the Spotlight menu, perform queries on which buddies are online or integrate iChat into your workflow!

Download: BuddySpotlight-0.1.dmg

With the initial release, Buddy Spotlight is a stand-alone application. It will run in your dock, but has no real user interface. In the future, I hope to make it a “background” application or some sort of plugin.