Microblogging platform Jaiku has added Jabber-based instant messaging capabilities to its service.
The new feature will allow Jaiku users using Jaiku’s Web, iPhone, and Nokia Series 60 smart phone clients to communicate with users on Jabber-based IM networks including Google Talk. Functionality includes the ability to instantly add and read new posts, comments, channel messages, and receive notifications of inbound responses directly.
Jaiku already provides a number of extra features that are not currently available on the more popular (and it’s main competitor) Twitter. Jaiku users can choose and receive web feeds from their friends online activities, for example, Flickr photos, updates from specific blogs, Last.fm recently played tracks and others.
To use the service, Jaiku users should add jaiku@jaiku.com to their respective Jabber-based IM client.
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I don’t think any of these services will really take off until there is service interoperability. What jabber is doing for IM needs to be done for microblogging.
It’s either that or, as a kuldge, bridging microblogging formats in the way that multi-protocol IM clients obscure the differences between one network and another.
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I agree fully. I’d love nothing more than a client that lets me run Jaiku, Twitter and Pownce, not on the same page but from the same single client (Twitteriffic style).
It’s called a competition for a reason and my bet is on twitter winning out because of its simplicity. I don’t like how Jaiku and Pownce are mucking up their service with tons of features. The feature set won’t be built into the service, but the software that interprets the “conversation”. For example, tweetr is an excellent client, which supports picture sharing and file transfer. It also allows you to sort tweets by the timeline, replies, and private message. They took the simplest service (twitter) and added Pownce / Jaiku features to it — the best of both worlds.
I was using imified.com to post to twitter and jaiku both. But, I still had twitter added to my google talk buddy list so i could get updates from it. Being able to get jaiku updates now will be a nice feature. Now I won’t have to go to the site to find out if I missed anything. Jaiku is really coming around. I wonder how long twitter can hold them off?
“I don’t like how Jaiku and Pownce are mucking up their service with tons of features.”
You’re totally right, the whole point of twitter is a nice simple interface, quick updates, all this other crap is unnecessary. Pretty soon they will just be another wannabe myspace or facebook.
It seems that every other internet startup is a two-syllable word that ends in -u, these days… Hulu, Jaiku… there are a lot more.
This whole nonsense word thing, driven by increasingly scarce domain names, is getting trite, isn’t it?
I know it’s been pointed out before, but this profusion of gibberish 2-syllable names will confuse the hell out of people. It’s still a residual symptom of 1999-2000, when everyone wanted to duplicate Yahoo’s success. The only problem is that now, there are so many companies with cutesy names that look and sound like baby-talk, that we won’t be able to sort them out. It all becomes a big blur.
@Joe T – I completely agree. I think that the new business model once this bubble pops (within the next year) are subdomains from well-known dot.coms. Think AT&T, where the name has survived, although the company is much different than it was ten years ago. Online brand recognition will work the same way.
People are confusing services with the simple need to communicate and stay connected- micro-blogging, tweets, status updates, IM, event-sharing, picture sharing, link sharing – Facebook new feeds, all of these things are about connectedness – the richer the channels the more immediate the communication – the richer the shared presence – the richer is our own digital persona – bravo to Jaiku I’m jealous
@Eduardo – Web2.0 is about to collapse within itself because there is TOO MUCH data. All I see are tweets about this blogger or that evangelist marking all of their RSS feeds as read, because they missed a day. The data is there but there is no bonafide way of organizing it.
I have heard the hype about Mahalo being bigger than google in four years, and while it is a step in the right direction towards categorizing data, they will be too slow. The real value are in the VB and UBB forums, which have years and years of conversations, all easily categorized and searchable. This where a lot of the newsgroup and mailing list people went.
Great news !
I prefer Jaiku to Twitter because it’s a kind of Slashdot. I find Twitter less useful, although it has its specific purpose… and can be aggregated by Jaiku.
I hope Jaiku has a good business model.
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