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Micro-blogging - Jaiku and Twitter

22.Jun.2007

It started out when I registered myself in Twitter, just to try out the API. I was trying out some ideas for the social back-end of the next Take Off event. On the first edition were already some spontaneous action going on there, from several attendants so it must be something that we can take advantage of. Something like our own front-end for everyone's messages appearing during the creaks on the auditorium screen for example.

Then I decided to try out Jaiku since it had the ability to not only keep a record of my twitter messages (and also their own message service) but also to present a stream of all the RSS feeds that represent my general activities like blogging, bookmarks (although del.icio.us feeds aren't working there currently), photos, music, and any other service that contains a RSS feed. Jaiku also has it's own API that I haven't still tried. They have also some cool widgets like the one here on the right.

I still don't have the habit of keeping my current state public. I even have the twitter bot on my GTalk but I rarely use it. However, if you want to keep an eye on me on Jaiku, just add me as your contact.

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3 Comments

Jaiku rox! I have used it to make the live coverage of wwdc07 at AppleTuga.com/wwdc07/ , twitter doesnt update the rss feed in real time... :|

cenourinha / 24.Jun.2007 at 01:44am

I found that out when Jaiku took a lot of time to just get a twitter message, after all if was twitter's fault...

sérgio santos / 24.Jun.2007 at 10:38pm

I can see the benefit of 'micro blogging' and the ability to quickly (if pressured) write where you are, what you're doing, where you're going. People often skim read the top of a page to understand what the document / page is about. Microblogging does this for you.