Jaiku or Twitter
Twitter and Jaiku are services that allow you to post frequent snippets and communicate that to other people. You can subscribe to other people’s feeds and keep an eye out for where they are and what they’re doing. Sort of like a public chat in slow motion… or micro-blogging.
I joined Twitter a few weeks ago and have struggled to participate. I’m just not too interested in posting everything I’m doing all the time. And I’m really not that interested in seeing what everyone else is doing. However, I have seen where some people are using the service in ingenious ways – like posting news alerts. One opportunity may be to communicate with my kids when I’m unavailable for a phone call.
Twitter has been terribly slow and is quite ugly. I struggle with going back there and posting. I think I’m done twittering.
Last night I checked out Jaiku, a rival service that Hugh and Scoble use. It’s got a really nice interface and a ton of integration capabilities. If there’s one way to get Doug to use your service, it’s to put a cool API. I may be sold!
I like the fact that I can put my blog feed in Jaiku. So you can subscribe to my feed or my Jaiku feed. If you’re on Jaiku, let me know.
