Micro-blogging with Jaiku

Jaiku is the leader of the Micro-blogging pack: ‘The Presence Messenger’. Jaiku says that its “main goal is to bring people closer together by enabling them to share their presence. Jaiku is a phone book that lets you share your real-time rich presence from the phone”. The shared short messages are called Jaikus.

Though Jaiku was the first to allow threaded comments, there are still some rough edges. As of now, you cannot comment on somebody’s Jaiku through the mobile phone. Jaiku only allows short text messages, limiting the message length to 140 characters; so the funny part is that the comments can be longer than the post.

Of the two Jaiku founders, Jyri Engestrom and Petteri Koponen, Jyri worked at Nokia as a Senior Product Manager and brings Sociology background to the team while Petteri focuses on Bizdev and core technology. High profile Jaiku converts from Twitter include celebrities like Leo Laporte.

Jaiku believes in a federated model. For example, I can import my Twitter on Jaiku. Like Facebook - Jaiku and Twitter have both opened up the API, while Pownce is working on announcing their official API.

You can find my previous post on Twitter here. More on micro blogging in my next post.

Further Reading:

Marko Ahtisaari does a great job to convince you why he uses Jaiku
Duncan Riley makes a case for switching from Twitter to Jaiku
Kristen Nicole announces the iPhone version of Jaiku on Mashable
Robert Scoble interviews the Jaiku team in this interesting video
Emily Turrettini’s announces the start of Jaiku service on her blog

Update 1:

Here is another good post comparing mini blogging solutions