6/12/2007
Coming in Social Networking Tools from Jaiku - Soon
Across the tech sector people have been watching social networking tools evolve. Three of the hottest right now are Twitter, Facebook and jaiku.com. Rather than talk about the ones I’m not using, or using less, I want to tell you about what I see ahead for Jaiku. I’ve talked about all three recently and you can easily find plenty of conversation.
If you haven”t yet experienced Jaiku, here’s a sample. For me, it has become my regular lifestream of information and staying in contact with some of my closest colleagues and friends.
One of the things that struck me first with Jaiku was the client software for Nokia phones. It provides a different, richer mobile experience. It was far from perfect, but it showed the potential of what was coming.
I’ve recently had the pleasure of joining beta testing for the next version of the Jaiku client for Nokia, and I have to say, within a day it became one of my most useful and important applications on my mobile.
The new client will do so much more than the current production release that I’m truly impressed with the diligence and effort the Jaiku team has put into this.
Over the next few days, I’ll being sharing some screenshots, although it’s important to remember this is still a closed beta version and there may be tweaks in the UI before the public release. The Jaiku is still working on parts of the UI. That’s one reason the beat isn’t open at this point.And a couple of my blogging colleagues will also be sharing some first impressions.
In the meantime, I’ll tell you that the new Jaiku for Nokia S60 v3 phones will provided full threads, included comments, greater contact information, and an intuitive, easy to use interface. I’m sold, and Jaiku has become my primary tool for keeping in touch. You’ll be able to drill down by thread or by contact, read and leave comments, and easily post updates from your handheld.
Stay tuned, and I’ll keep you posted. Last night we reached a plan to begin blogging about it. I’ll be unwrapping portions at a time, piece by piece so you’ll appreciate it as much as I do.
Technorati Tags: social networking tools, Jaiku
Filed by Ken at 7:28 am under Mobility & Handheld, Portable Pleasures - PDA/Smartphones, Unified Communications
[...] got accepted into the private Jaiku beta. Ken Camp discusses some of the new features over here. Because the beta is tied to specific handsets (by IMEI), I have to wait for the next beta build [...]
Ken, although the S60 client is our pride and joy, it has been very interesting to see how many 3rd-party Jaiku clients have emerged lately. For those who don’t have Symbian S60 handsets, I can recommend e.g. the cool WidSets Jaiku client we blogged about earlier today. Another interesting mobile client is JaikuBerry, a native Blacberry client for Jaiku. Once we open up new functionality via our APIs, the clients will get closer to the functionality of the S60 implementation.
I spotted that post on the Jaiku blog earlier. I’ve had quirky odd trouble with Widsets myself, but want to try it again and include it on some of my coming posts. I can’t load third-party software of any kind on the one Blackberry I use, but I hope Neil will check it out on the Blackberry Curve he just got and speak up. I know sevearl other Blackberry users are just now looking at it.
keep up the great work!
I was able to load Widsets on my Blackberry 8700 and the Curve. It took me a while to figure out that the Q key is OPTIONS and the O (on curve) and P (on 8700) are BACK.
It works and its the most colorful experience on Blackberry. The user interface between Widsets and the device is smooth. You can send over widgets and they simply appear and load. Brilliant. And Jaiku works well.
Neil and Ken, have you tested Jaikuberry? Comments?
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