I Finally Get Jaiku
It’s weird. In my quest to find shiny, fun tech toys, I had overlooked Jaiku to some extent. My general dissatisfaction with Twitter and slowly simmering dissatisfaction with Facebook had me take a fresh look at Jaiku. And you know what? I finally understand.
Oh sure, I thought I understood it before. But I started using it. I can see that it uses the cell phone network to figure out you’re someplace else. Where you are changes as you move around.
Like Twitter, you can update your status. Perhaps with not as many clients as Twitter, but they exist. And with each update lies the ability to start a conversation. And it’s kept track of, not just as part of a stream, but in it’s own container.
The limiting factors for Jaiku are: mobile updates can only occur via international SMS or via a client from a Nokia S60 2nd or 3rd Edition device. The mobile client, while providing presence information, does not provide the ability to comment on other people’s updates. And of course keeping a client running on the phone cuts into both memory for other appications and battery life.
Jaiku may be working to address these issues and working to expand the mobile options for participating beyond Nokia devices. One hopes they do, because I finally see the promise.
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Comment by Jonathan Greene
Check out the widset for both Twitter and Jaiku … both are two-way and actually quite cool
Comment by Petteri Koponen
WidSets is a cool way for posting to Jaiku, in addition to following different lifestreams and channels. Here is a link to the Jaiku WidSets widget and a few others. There is also a native client for Blackberry, called Jaikuberry and quite a few others 3rd-party clients. At the moment, you can find a list of them on our developer site.
We’re pretty proud of the new badges as well
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[...] A while ago, I had decided I had enough of Twitter. I had pretty much stopped using it, but did not go so far as to delete my account. I kept it around “just in case” and jumped full-bore into Jaiku. [...]
Comment by gerrymoth
“The mobile client, while providing presence information, does not provide the ability to comment on other people’s updates.”
Phoneboy you can comment on other peoples updates in the Jaiku Mobile client, you can comment on anything in the mobile client. If you press the middle button of the d-pad on the message you want to comment on it will open the thread with a “Add comment” bar below it.