Jaiku or Twitter
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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.
I love the new template. I’m not sure how long you’ve had it up, but I just noticed it today.
I get Twitter and Jaiku, but I don’t use them for the same reason as well. I update my status once and a while on Facebook and even that’s to much at times. I think it’s kinda rude to update you status if you are with other people, just so you can tell the world who you are with. Maybe turning 25 this month had made me go soft and care about the quality of time I get with people. If I can find a novel use for them and not just what everyone else is currently using it for, then maybe I’ll join.
I’ve not checked out Facebook though it’s on my list of things to do. My son has a Facebook profile so I’d like to connect and see why he likes it.
I’ll make a big announcement once it’s up!
My money is on Tumblr for the win though. Tumblr does a very good job of microblogging, and they just added friends lists and mobile texting options.
A search databse would be even better. So many sites have mobile version now. Why not a knowledage database as well.