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Re: Leo Laporte leaves Twitter for Jaiku

Les Stockton — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:32:25 -0000

I've tried and tried and cannot get a jaiku account invitation.
Tell me again, why Jaiku is going to be better than Twitter? How much better can it be if you can't get on to use it?

Re: Leo Laporte leaves Twitter for Jaiku

Ontario Emperor — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:23:28 -0000

Coincidentally, I just requsted a Jaiku account. I'm hoping that I can use my Google login to access Jaiku; otherwise, I may wait until Google login support is available. I just want to give it a whirl and see what happens.

Apparently there's an update to this story that I still have to find. http://twitter.com/leolaporte is active.

Re: Leo Laporte leaves Twitter for Jaiku

Alexander Muse — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:19:59 -0000

We were thinking about the same thing the other day. Why choose between Twitter and Jaiku (and the next moblogging player to enter the space). What if you could 'twitter' to any or all moblogging platform? We brought the issue up at the office and the guys came up with EgorCast. The idea is to mashup Jott's voice to text service with Twitter and Jaiku.

Jott allows users to dial a predetermined number and record a 15 second message. Jott then transcribes the message and emails the transcription to your phone or email account. EgorCast provides a gateway between the messages from Jott and social mo-blogging services such as Twitter and Jaiku (or both if you want). EgorCast will also send your messages to your WordPress blog with a specific category or tag. So you don't need to pick...

Re: Leo Laporte leaves Twitter for Jaiku

Rodney Rumford — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:15:57 -0000

I heard Leo on the radio this weekend talking about twitter and jaiku. It was interesting to hear his thoughts on the 2 services (he likes them both). But i think the real reason he left was confusion about TWIT and twitter being too similar in names and confusion arising.

i have to agree with is perspective. his brand was having some confusion applied to it due to the name similarities... i think he actually said he was suggested by legal counsel to send twitter a cease and decist. but he said he would not do that, he likes Evan. ;)

Rodney Rumford

Re: Leo Laporte leaves Twitter for Jaiku

Christopher Coulter — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 03:47:50 -0000

‘discussion nodes’....

Hahha, too rich, gotta love the buzzwording...

Re: Leo Laporte leaves Twitter for Jaiku

Bob — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 02:16:52 -0000

P.S. I'm sick of all of you so called "A Listers" get a freakin' life and get over yourselves already

Re: Leo Laporte leaves Twitter for Jaiku

Bob — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 01:56:41 -0000

I'm pissed and sick of Leo abusing his power to sway the masses when he clearly is getting paid to plug these start-ups. He plugged twitter a dozen times and now abandons it? WTF?! Screw him... he can have fun by himself in Jaikuland. Twitter Rocks, Jaiku sucks!

Re: Leo Laporte leaves Twitter for Jaiku

Jeremy Toeman — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 02:27:55 -0000

Robert: I think you are getting a little carried away with the "three weeks late" comments to that guy Martin. The necessary reality check here is this: the "claimed" 100K users at Twitter is most certainly an accomplishment for a startup, and hats off to them for it. But it is utterly meaningless in the grand scheme of things.

If this market is really going to be huge (doubtful), then being a month "late" but a lot better is perfectly fine. The "update pseudo-friends about what I'm having for lunch" bus is still in the station...

Re: Leo Laporte leaves Twitter for Jaiku

Brian Adkins — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 00:46:51 -0000

Robert, I'm dying to know (and I bet a lot of other people) - how the heck do you deal with 2,700+ friends on twitter? You can't possibly keep up with them - do you have a reader that scans for keywords, pick some at random? What's your technique? Inquiring mind(s) want to know.

Re: Leo Laporte leaves Twitter for Jaiku

tamar — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 21:39:27 -0000

My post didn't come out right. Revised -

From Leo’s blog: “The problem is the name. I wish to heck he’d named it Tweeter, or Tooter, or anything but Twitter. Twitter is so close to TWiT that I’m afraid it’s really confusing.”

Leo has a lot of issues with names, from podcasts/netcasts to Twitter/TWiT. I’ve been using Twitter since December and I can’t say that the association with TWiT has ever crossed my mind. I think he’s truly in over his head about these naming conventions.

I tried Jaiku for all of 2 minutes, and unless it catches on (I hope it doesn’t), I’m sticking to TWiTter. (Oops.)

Re: Leo Laporte leaves Twitter for Jaiku

David S — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 18:55:32 -0000

I think these services are a great move forward for the connected minded people... but I wonder, like the Unified Field Theory scientists are trying to crack, I'm guessing whoever creates a UNIFIED MESSAGING THEORY will be onto a winner...

I mean, skype, messenger, twitter, email etc... "one messenging service to rule them all" ?????

Re: Leo Laporte leaves Twitter for Jaiku

Mike Flynn — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 15:30:04 -0000

I noticed the very same thing last night and twittered it. Odd right? I did notice that Leo mentioned that when he tried to kill his twitter account it was just deleting his last post, so maybe thats the issue, but it is weird and unsettling.

Re: Leo Laporte leaves Twitter for Jaiku

Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:52:23 -0000

This just occurred to me: for those interested in the deleted 'tweets', try grabbing the RSS feed for http://twitter.com/leolaporte before the account is deleted.

You'll find the deleted 'tweets' there.

Re: Leo Laporte leaves Twitter for Jaiku

Brian Adkins — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:41:18 -0000

Instead of a bunch of proprietary islands of presence updates, I think an RSS like standard for updates would be better. Jaiku is crash-prone, but at least you can add a twitter feed. I suppose it's similar to gaim in that regard.

Re: Leo Laporte leaves Twitter for Jaiku

Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:41:00 -0000

@mike - the explanation was in one of Leo's earlier tweets also. I remember him saying that when he attempted to delete his Twitter account, the 'delete' action only deleted his last post.

I can only speculate that he must have tried to delete the account a few times. And each time he tried, he only managed to delete whatever the latest 'tweet' was.

I'm not brave enough to actually try deleting my Twitter account to test my theory, though. LOL.

Re: Leo Laporte leaves Twitter for Jaiku

Mike — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:27:28 -0000

Robert,
What I'm finding strange is that Leo's Twitter page is still up (despite the request to have it taken down) but the two tweets that you quoted in your original post are missing. It goes from a tweet about Fastmail (20 hours ago as of the writing of this comment) to a tweet about his account still being active (5 hours ago).

Re: Leo Laporte leaves Twitter for Jaiku

Christopher Coulter — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:15:17 -0000

screaming your head off

Hahahahha, yup, Web 2.0 in a nutshell. Presentational layers doing simple tasks, without infrastructual frameworks, screaming until they get funded or bought. Shoot up town, take off with the money, leave town before the Sheriff catches up.

Re: Leo Laporte leaves Twitter for Jaiku

Robert Scoble — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 11:42:02 -0000

Martin: I read everything on TechCrunch, but don't have time to try everything out. And, since when is talking to Mike the same thing as talking to Scoble?

Re: Leo Laporte leaves Twitter for Jaiku

Jeremiah Owyang — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 10:04:27 -0000

Martin

Many many companies are covered in Techcrunch, only a few of them bubble up to 'discussion nodes' like on Techmeme.

Re: Leo Laporte leaves Twitter for Jaiku

Martin — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 04:42:45 -0000

Robert: we were featured on Techcrunch back in December (http://www.techcrunch.com/2..., so we figured that people had at least heard of our service.

We've got some stuff in the works that we hope people will like enough to switch away from Twitter/Jaiku, or even better, use them together with loopnote (yes, it plays nice with others). I can't give everything away here, but if you want to take it offline I could give you a little more background.

Martin

Re: Leo Laporte leaves Twitter for Jaiku

Robert Scoble — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 04:31:04 -0000

Martin: how could you miss it? Come on, dude, it was in the freaking Wall Street Journal.

Get onto the RSS bus. Learn to use Technorati and Google Blog Search (different than Google) and search for your name, your product name, your company name, your competitor's names.

Also search Google News for your stuff and your competitor's stuff.

The hype happened three weeks ago at the Game Developer's Conference and SXSW.

Coming in three weeks later just ain't gonna cut it. Sorry.

But, now that you're here. You gotta figure out how to get some big fish to switch. You just missed your chance with Leo, since he switched from Twitter to Jaiku. I doubt he'd switch again (he really was the start of the Twitter hype too).

So, how you gonna get a few big fish to switch from Twitter to your service?

Re: Leo Laporte leaves Twitter for Jaiku

Martin — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 04:21:16 -0000

You're right, I missed the bus on this one. I went for a little stroll, the bus came out of nowhere at an insane speed, stopped, picked everybody up, and by the time I got back from my stroll it was gone.

Lesson learned.

Re: Leo Laporte leaves Twitter for Jaiku

Robert Scoble — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 04:16:27 -0000

Sorry, Martin, but NO ONE has told me about your service. And I have hundreds of thousands of readers per week. The fact that you weren't here screaming your head off tells me you aren't very up to date on how markets work in the Web 2.0 world.

Re: Leo Laporte leaves Twitter for Jaiku

Robert Scoble — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 04:15:14 -0000

Hint to marketers: when something is happening and 2,500 people sign up in less than a month (which is what happened to me over on Twitter) you better speak up when the movement is happening. Not four weeks after.

Re: Leo Laporte leaves Twitter for Jaiku

Martin — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 04:12:13 -0000

I guess I was living under a rock ;)

I looked at Twitter when it first came out and thought "hey, they're doing something very similar, but it's a little simplistic". The what are you doing thing seemed strange at the time, but I think I see its appeal now.