I went to the Web 2.0 drink hosted by Tijs and René in the Hague tonight and I talked a bit to various internet sorts and got exposed to a whole lot of Jaiku.

Jaiku

I had already claimed my online presence at Jaiku, but hadn’t given it much thought since. Tonight Mark said that their recently released version was quite cool and Tijs briefly showed me the Jaiku mobile client on his Nokia.

The site is really usable and pretty social right now and the mobile app is nothing short of impressive (features). This really is a solid implementation of the vision Jyri Engeström laid out during his talk at Reboot called “Blind Men’s Baseball” (great presentation).

Besides nicely implementing a whole lot of social features, using a contact list to communicate with people is essentially the core of the mobile experience. If Jaiku would add VOIP to their site, you would essentially have a (mobile) communications profile which is both device and telco independent, which sounds pretty good if you ask me.

Twitter no more

The timing of this is pretty opportune since I was annoyed silly by a barrage of semi-nonsensical SMSes from Twitter lately. It feels like Twitter implements just one dimension in this space and falls short at that.

I turned off the SMS notification (end the pain, please!) and left a goodbye message for the Twitter folk.

Now just to get my hands on a somewhat more recent phone and a decent plan so I can play with the mobile presence part.

This entry was posted on Saturday, March 3rd, 2007 at 2:51 and is filed under mobile.