The Twitter herd debated platforms, has herds do when chosing to migrate. Suddenly the
Jaiku comes from a "presence" background allowing bluetooth proximity, phone idle time, ringer mode and other things to trigger state changes - the messaging came later. Twitter, on the other hand, is primarily messaging, which as we all know, is just a flexible and manual vector for presence information.
To understand where Jaiku is coming from, I encourage you to read this interview with
Twitter on paper
Originally uploaded by from a note circa Jan 2006.
casual awareness.
"what are you up to?"
multiple entry point to set status
- web
- phone
- sms
- im
multiple ways to "subscribe" to status
- web
- phone
- sms
- im
3 aspects
- set status
- timeline (collaborative)
- configuration
The interesting thing is that I found it on
4. Background sociality - Jaiku allows me to integrate other online identities and feeds (including delicious, flickr and any RSS) into my single jaiku presence feed. This is done in a way that doesn't confuse these background posts with my explicit state messages.
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