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Jaiku: Where you are on the internet doesn’t matter anymore, it is who you know

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By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, June 14th, 2007 at 4:41 AM

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

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About The Author

Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • cybette

    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.