{"id":331,"date":"2007-01-09T14:14:48","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T13:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.leapfrog.nl\/archives\/2007\/01\/09\/a-few-weeks-of-jaiku-fun\/"},"modified":"2007-11-29T10:24:25","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T08:24:25","slug":"a-few-weeks-of-jaiku-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/09\/a-few-weeks-of-jaiku-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"A few weeks of Jaiku fun"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Jaiku's\n

I\u2019ve been playing around with Jaiku<\/a> for a bit now. I first downloaded the client and gave it a spin a while back (before the site was there). When they launched the site, I reinstalled the client, and after some initial screwing around with my N70, I got it to work. I should note, however that Jaiku has become great fun even if you don\u2019t have a S60<\/a> phone. <\/p>\n

Thanks to the enthusiastic use of colleagues Tom<\/a> and Edgar<\/a> I\u2019ve gotten a taste of what the service would be like if all my (non-techie) friends would be online. Especially Edgar\u2019s regular updates during his vacation in Australia were\u2026 interesting. I\u2019m still not sure if I enjoy seeing his “having a cocktail here and there” updates while I\u2019m posting a message that I\u2019m hard at work. Oh well.<\/p>\n

I first encountered (the concept of) Jaiku at last year\u2019s Reboot<\/a> thanks to Jyri\u2019s talk<\/a>. The talk was cool, and mainly focussed on how IM-like status messages integrated with your phone book would result in something Jyri and friends like to call \u2018rich presence\u2019. It seems that (as is so often the case) real use by real users, combined with the introduction of the web front-end is slowly but surely transforming it into<\/ins> something more like a personal presence publishing channel. <\/p>\n

I find myself regularly updating my status message, be it through the S60 client, their text messaging interface or the web site. I\u2019ve also hooked up most of the RSS feeds that track my activity on a number of social web services. This might just be my obsessive urge to cache all my (on- and offline) activity somewhere in an effortless way, but I can imagine more people would enjoy using it once tying together the loose ends becomes more intuitive.<\/p>\n

I would also like to thank the Jaiku guys for being very helpful, supporting me with all the N70 woes. <\/p>\n

For those interested in more, check out the following links:<\/p>\n