Live From Essential Web 2007 (2)
We just had some nice presentations from companies including Jaiku and Loudervoice. I must say that this conference is much less conceptual like The Next Web, as both Jaiku and Loudervoice had to answer the question of how they would make a profit. It was interesting to see Jyri’s answer on how to monetize Jaiku in the future with targeted adds in your Jaikus and maybe premium packages without adds. Another interesting player in this session was ParkAtMyHouse (another regular at OpenCoffee) that showed us some nice stats about their affiliate deals and increasing userbase. I would really like to see how companies will start to use this service to promote their commercial parking spaces.
SideNote: Interestingly enough Jyri just said that he would like to see interoperability between Twitter and Jaiku. This in contrary to having them compete, it just sounds very interesting and unlikely at the same time.
Andrew http://malach.jaiku.com/
June 28th, 2007Interoperability between Jaiku/twitter etc is definitely something that’s worthwhile. With separate silos we end up being far too fragmented, like the IM world was (and still is).
I think it’s fair to say that all of us at Jaiku like the idea - but there’s a pile of hurdles to get over before it can be a reality.