Archive for Jaiku
by Darla Mack
June 22, 2008 at 10:17 pm · Filed under Mobile messaging 2.0, Twitter, mobile social networking, Jaiku, Messaging, LinkedIn, Social Networking
One of my mobitopia buddies, Sir Erik Thauvin (lol that’s not really his name but I like calling him that) introduced me to Hellotxt awhile back and my initial thought was this is the place to be for updating all of your social media networks simultaneously… especially via mobile.
You know who you are… you Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Bebo, Facebook and so on people that bounce from spot to spot in order to make sure all of your locations are updated.
That’s where HelloTxt comes in.
HelloTxt is an aggregate of microblogging services through which the user can insert their messages on all main microblogging services in a simply and simultaneous way.
Now although it is web-based, it still offers the solution of multi-service update in a convenient way. Updates can be sent via email gateway, sms gateway or through the users dashboard.
There is a mobile web version of hellotxt (m.hellotxt.com) that does the same thing, however I think it would be much better to have a real mobile client than just having to use the mobile browser all the time. But its still a good solution for quick multi-service updates.
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by Ewan Spence
May 30, 2008 at 4:21 pm · Filed under Twitter, Jaiku, Email, 2008
Last weekend saw The Eurovision Song Contest, where 43 countries choose a representative song, perform it live in a telecast that goes out to upwards of 100 million viewers around Europe (and upwards of 300 million worldwide). I sat down last Saturday to watch the contest, in a room full of Eurovision enthusiasts, lovers, and critics all throwing out their opinions, drinks in hand.
Of course we weren’t all really together – we were logged on to Twitter, throwing out bards about the camp costumes, the immensely tribal nature of pop music, and the incredibly… err… artistic graphics between the songs. Three hours of music and politics (don’t ask, please, simply put all war in Europe stops on the night of the contest and we fight using votes). As one participant said at the end of the gig, “Thank you Twitter, you all kept me sane.”
But the point here isn’t to celebrate the Song Contest (much as I do) As more international events pop up on the horizon, the luster of modern communication tools, especially those with a real time component such as Twitter, Jaiku, IM clients and of course the rather old but still functions even if everything else seems to go down IRC are going to be the place to chat and converse about both international events. The upcoming Summer Olympics are going to be a major stress test of the public’s use of these tools (as opposed to say an Apple keynote). On the evidence of Eurovision, Twitter’s not quite ready yet – the database went down as the event started and it switched to a ‘limited’ service to stay up, but resource management in instant communication can’t afford to be 99.99% up if the one time that everyone wants to talk is when it goes down (because that’s when it’s popular).
One reason why IRC stays up is it is effectively distributed around multiple computers. Twitter, for all the latest bells and whistles, relies on a central point. Modern messaging is going to have to cope with messages of greater bandwidth, with much lower latency, and that leaves very little room for failure. I think it’s a fair bet that any new globally adopted messaging system is going to have a distributed element to it, and dare I say it heavily biased around peer to peer.
Oh and if you want my opinion, Norway was robbed, Ireland should at least have made the finals, and the UK sent a Bin-Man, came last, and were surprised they didn’t do any better…
by Darla Mack
March 4, 2008 at 9:54 am · Filed under Mobile messaging 2.0, Jaiku
Jaiku announced today that they have launched a very cool spot for potential users seeking invites as well as existing users looking to share available invites that they have. JaikuInvites
If you recall, sometime around the Google/Jaiku marriage the social media site became somewhat of an ‘invitation only’ environment. Gotta love the exclusivity of a secret society!!
Jaiku Invites is the place to come for all the latest news on Jaiku as well as the best place to share those precious invites!
by Ewan Spence
November 27, 2007 at 7:03 pm · Filed under Platforms, Twitter, Instant Messaging, Communication, Convergence, Jaiku, Messaging, seesmic
Many years ago, back in the dark days when I studied Artificial Intelligence at Edinburgh University I was a heavy user of the Usenet reading application TIN. This of course was in the fun days when all access was through 80×24 VT100 terminals. And I remember that TIN was a great improvement over RN and NN, and the main advantage was it used threaded messaging.
And I think that’s where Seesmic, Loic Le Meur’s play to get into the instant message + stream of conscious + video space which could (could) prove profitable in the future. I’ve been on the service for some time, and using it in anger over the last week, and while it is incredibly rough around the edges (and everyone is screaming for threaded messages - making it more Jaiku than Twitter?) there is something going on here that needs exploring.
Seesmic is not the final answer. It’s simply the opening shot, like a ranging shell in a naval battle. If any of the other presence services add video, the bloated Flash app of Seesmic will have a tough battle early on it’s career. TIN caught my imagination, but it was a News client on Windows 3.11 that really pulled me into Usenet. So the question is, will Seesmic’s TIN become lead or gold?
by Ewan Spence
October 10, 2007 at 6:47 am · Filed under Google, Jaiku
A brave new world for Jaiku, clenched to the generous bosom of their new Mama Morton in Google? Perhaps stepping back and thinking again might be more appropriate, because it’s a lot easier to come up with companies purchased by Google and then have one or two jewels cherry picked out by the Mountain View, CA based company, with everything else left to wither. Ars Technica reminded me of Urchin – purchased by Google, the online component became Google Analytics and the rest of the Urchin services, including the paid for server based versions, well… stagnated.
Many have wondered why Google plumped for Jaiku and not Twitter – well if you’re going with the assumption that Google is not wanting everything in the system. But just a few rough diamonds, then it could become clearer. In recent weeks Google has not only switched on its mobile Adsense product, but picked up Zingku, a mobile social network. It certainly strengths their depth in the mobile telecoms structure. Jaiku not only has a good platform of users , but has managed to successfully integrate a web based community with a mobile based community built around ‘presence.’
A handful of commentators, and myself among them, are considering that buying Jaiku isn’t a technology play, but a Human Resource play.
Looked at through this lens, the value in Twitter is minimal, given that founder Evan Williams has already been through the Googleplex and been spat out the other end with Google’s purchase of Blogger. Grabbing the minds behind Jaiku, who themselves are former Nokia engineers is probably worth the rumoured $12 million price ticket You can argue either way in the comments if this is a sign of an impending GooglePhone, a big mobile Operating System play, or something more sinister with wireless spectrum and presence applications. In summary, it does mean Google is doing something with mobile.
But this of course could leave Jaiku going down the same route as Urchin, Jot and others, by going absolutely nowhere again in terms of software updates. At least it has a full feature set that we can still use – I just wish that they’d manage to get the S60 client running over WiFi as well as a cellular connection.
by Imran Ali
October 9, 2007 at 4:51 pm · Filed under Platforms, Google, Twitter, Jaiku, Yahoo
Google! Yahoo! Google! Yahoo! Goohoo! Yoogle! Yahoo! Yeeaaaaaarrghh! It seems every service I use these days - Flickr, del.icio.us, Feedburner, Upcoming, Writely - is swallowed up whole by one of the two giants ot the Web Cold War…fighting their proxy wars, startup by startup!
Earlier today Jyri Engstrom’s Jaiku was acquired by Google, for an undisclosed sum, notaby to integrate Jaiku’s ‘Activity streams and mobile presence…where we believe Google can add a lot of value for users…a great addition to Google’s current application and mobile teams’.
It’s perhaps no accident that mobility is namechecked twice - a revealing comment, with the recent uptick in speculation that Google’s telephony play is less a handset and more a handset-agnostic OS or application suite.
Jaiku’s life stream has always been more elegantly implemented than its more popular counterpart, Twitter, enabling users to blend external RSS feeds with Jaiku posts; indeed, my own Jaiku account is automated, simply scraping RSS from Twitter, Flickr, my blog and other personal RSS sources.
Augmenting this life stream with Google’s suite of applications paints a compelling vision…
- Address books - GTalk user statuses set automagically; kinda like Tim O’Reilly’s vision of a smart address book.
- Blending social networks - bringing Jaiku’s life streams to the Orkut community, particularly its booming Asian and South American communities could help accelerate adoption of Google’s much vaunted Facebook-killer.
- Location aware contacts - user’s post their location via Jaiku, instantly marking themselves on Google Maps; great for iPhone users!
- Presence-based telephony - know the availability of a GTalk user, or Gmail contact, before placing a call
- Work status - let colleagues know when you’re working in Google Docs; perhaps great for timekeeping!
- Photocasting - let Jaiku syndicate your recently posted Picasa photos to your social network.
Couple this with Jaiku’s support for third-party data sources through RSS and you have a very powerful multiplexing engine; an open platform for signalling social and personal presence across the web and across mobile networks.
With these possibilities in mind - Jaiku may be one of the most significant acquisitions Google has ever made.
One of my mobitopia buddies, Sir Erik Thauvin (lol that’s not really his name but I like calling him that) introduced me to Hellotxt awhile back and my initial thought was this is the place to be for updating all of your social media networks simultaneously… especially via mobile.
