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Re: Dodgeball? Jotspot? Jaiku!

The Microblogger — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:01:31 -0000

I don't think the concept of microblogging itself can die, either with twitter or jaiku. Both are now positioned to take advantages in different domains. Jaiku is slated to become the mobile twitter from the gPhone in its due course, and Twitter still rules the roost in text simplicity, and the social need to shout-out is going to remain forever.

I am an avid microblogger, and have an account on twitter, as well as an Indian site chittR, which also scores in simplicity and UI. Bet its an alpha, but works pretty well in cross platform.

I would wait for Jaiku to figure in the gPhone and also looking forward for Google's answer to facebook in November

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Evisu — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:05:32 -0000

LOL Google has the buck to buy everything.

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Shree — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:12:31 -0000

You are right, Google buys everything and dumps it pretty much. But at the same time it's gaining traction in terms of new accounts - transferred from dodgeball etc to google. So, it's culling any competition, while taking adavantage. But, I certainly hope it's not going to kill Jaiku.

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monk.e.boy — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:00:22 -0000

> Imagine if Google made a more open social networking
> tool than Facebook all via RSS feeds? Stick that into
> your RSS feed reader and smoke it!

The most interesting thing you've said so far.

Imagine linking this with a "believability - expert - I trust this person - reputation" score (like eBay feedback) and OpenID and you have a cool distributed eBay type of social network, where spam just sort of disappears. And interesting people rise to the top.

I hate the fact that my eBay reputation is great, but I modded 'troll' in slashdot. Don't they know I'm reputable?! ;-)

But it'd work on all sorts of platforms (could we hook in facebook RSS + myspace RSS into it as well?)...

I like that idea.

wikipedia: wuffie

Nice post. Keep it up Scoble!

monk.e.boy

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SunkenShip — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:29:42 -0000

Facebook is sinking, on november 5th it will be on the bottom of the aleutians!

SELL!

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PrettyWeb — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:27:36 -0000

Jaiku is prettier and thta's all it counts for me.

btw, been waiting for jotspot over a year now, HURRY UP GODDAMNIT!

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Simone — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 06:38:26 -0000

I agree. I wrote this before, Google can really not only win the cardgame but blow up the table.
http://www.harael.com/2007/...

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cernIO — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:55:41 -0000

Uh, have you talked about RSS aggregation as a main feature? Curious, Hictu has it. Uhm.

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shaine — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:25:02 -0000

Grand Central is a Google acquisition that has made it out alive. So has Blogger. And YouTube.

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Chris Gonyea — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:44:18 -0000

Not to mention Google Earth. That wasn't developed in house.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

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MMartin — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:35:30 -0000

Google was late in Social Networking. They recently released Google Shared Stuff (a del.icio.us-like) and now bring Jaiku in the wagon. Great move. They should now begin to play on Myspace/Facebook playground.

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Joe — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:21:11 -0000

Good point about Google buying companies and then you never hear from them again. Like Picasa, Blogger, YouTube, Writley, Urchin.

Twitter's dead.

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Kris Gainsforth — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:34:39 -0000

I don't see Jaiku causing major issues with Twitter. Google's best play here is to use it to integrate GrandCentral, Reader, and Gmail better via mobile. Maybe even YouTube, but for the basics, I still use Twitter, and I'm not dropping it, but I am a Jaikuholic due to the ease of seeing replies and getting into conversations quicker.

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Esme Vos — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:13:09 -0000

I also prefer Jaiku to Twitter, primarily for its mobile application and RSS feed aggregation. As for Twitter having all the people - it depends where you live. A lot of Europeans are on Jaiku, whereas Twitter has a bigger user base in the US. At least that's the sense I get. Am I right?

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Ian Delaney — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:09:05 -0000

Forgive me for saying this, but the US is still finding its feet on mobile apps, whereas Europe is crying out for them, and also for mobile ad inventory. Perfect match, I'd say.

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David Jacobs — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:38:32 -0000

Correct Infinity Pro, it's all about critical mass and right now Twitter has it. As technology people we need to learn out lesson, more features doesn't mean better. Apple creates products that people love, but they don't generally have as many raw features as Microsoft products. People don't want all the features, they want something that works really well. I could teach my mom to use Twitter, I'm not so sure about Jaiku.

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william — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:55:14 -0000

Yes Jaiku mobile client rocks - if you have the one phone that can run it - oh, and if you are overseas.

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INFINITY PRO: "NEENZ" — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:53:29 -0000

JAIKU does have all the features already mentioned which makes it good for presence.

TWITTER has all of the people.

The people trumps features.

Especially since, I still have yet to receive the code to activate my phone.

Until then, I shall feed Jaiku my twitters and RSS feeds. And of course the random Jaiku to post something clever on my FB.

Thank you Scob!

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Shaine — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:26:32 -0000

What keeps me with Twitter are my Twitter friends. Also, that I get charged for using international SMS numbers.

For all its RSS might, whenever you Google me, my Jaiku account never comes up; so much for presence.

I wrote about How to Kill Facebook. Maybe Google has the way to start building an open social network that will be our personal channels for our content. They've got video, RSS, blogs, and now a Twitter-esque service. Imagine combining all your content and attaching it to a person. Imagine being able to search all the content from a specific person across platforms.

I'm not particularly thrilled with Jaiku, but it may lead the way to putting all your content under one roof. One searchable presence.

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Michael Bailey — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:17:23 -0000

TV Killed The Radio Star -

uhm, okay, and now back to reality.
None of the events today, or the predictions of tomorrow are going to matter to my bottom line in any shape or form.

Tomorrow will bring another shiny object, something which we can all rally around and invoke our emotions upon.

Over time, life will grab a hold of us again and we'll move on to discussions of things which really matter.

At least, I certainly hope that happens.

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vaspers aka steven e. streight — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:17:15 -0000

You can feed your Twitter tweets through Jaiku. Jaiku has good threaded conversation via comments for specific messages.

Folks, that is an immense improvement and benefit making Jaiku far superior to Twitter.

Twitter is hit or miss conversationing. Jaiku is precision conversationing.

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FSFunky — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:11:05 -0000

I'm sticking with twitter... Jaiku is too much for me. Less is more people.

on twitter

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Raimo — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:10:21 -0000

This move helps Google jump into the Mobile LIVE web. All the current social services(next to Gtalk) miss the LIVE element to make it succesful in the mobile space. Jaiku is positioned perfectly to help Google's existing endeavours into the mobile space. Don't forget this. Jaiku is a bridge between content and communication. Two worlds now in Google.. See my post:
http://marikaya.wordpress.c...

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James Pearce — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:07:23 -0000

Twitter is a stream of text, or at best a stream of consiousness.

Jaiku is a stream of context and a stream of presence.

That's why the latter is a glimpse of the future of a (mobile) web.

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BarbaraKB — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:07:15 -0000

What about Pownce? Jaiku with Google makes me want to peacefully leave Pownce. Love the file sharing at Pownce: photos, videos, links, events but Jaiku has as well. LOVE the little photo is a post element. Jaiku is stronger in Asia and Europe and while I don't think it will *kill* Twitter, it might *force* Twitter to do some things better.