Shoutbox

The searching sounds pretty good, but I think it's quite hard to implement. What I do right now is that I use custom names for all my contacts. When i want to search for a contact, i first click on a random contact, then press the first letter of the name of the contact I want (ie 'G' in gary). the closest contact starting with 'g' will be highlighted, then i keep pressing 'g' until gary is highlighted