Jaiku: Where you are on the internet doesn’t matter anymore, it is who you know
By Stefan Constantinescu on Thursday, June 14th, 2007 at 4:41 AM PST In Random
I hate microblogging. I don’t get it and I think all of you people who use Twitter and Jaiku instead of instant messaging or SMS are wasting your time. That being said I think aggregation of everything you do on the net is a magical thing. Jaiku makes it easy with the “Add your Web feeds†function. It doesn’t matter what social bookmarking, photo uploading, video posting or blogging engine you use, as long as it can spit out an RSS feed you’re golden.
The internet is changing. People don’t care where your data is, they just want access to. Jaiku makes which Web 2.0 service you’re using completely irrelevant and I think that is huge. Every time I post a photo to Flickr, upload a movie to Blip, write a blog entry, bookmark a site on delicious, my friends are updated. I repeat, this is huge.
I just signed up, feel free to add me: constantine.jaiku.com better yet, add intomobile.jaiku.com
Note: This epiphany is dedicated to Ken Camp
I agree completely, feed aggregation is the next logical big thing. I’m also going to take a look at doing this via Jaiku, but you could also use Yahoo Pipes (see this article for an example – http://www.jonathanmulholland.com/2007/05/01/yahoo-pipes-facebook/)
I’ve been checking out feed aggregation for a while now. And Jaiku seems to have gotten it right. Not only does it provide the “presence stream” where you aggregate your RSS feeds, the fact that you can selectively subscribe/unsubscribe to the individual feeds of your contact’s stream is what makes it powerful and useful.
Don’t like microblogging? Unsubscribe your contacts’ twitter and jaiku feeds, but keep their blog and flickr ones. To me, this control is what sets Jaiku apart from other aggregators that I’ve come across.