Twitter and Jaiku
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Have you guys discovered Twitter and Jaiku yet? If not check them out, they are pretty cool services.
The idea is to share what you´re doing right now, how you´re feeling or just any thought you might have, with your friends simply by answering the question: "What you are doing?".
You can update this "status message of your life" in many ways: on the web, by sending a SMS or by using a mobile application.
Your friends can then keep track of what you´re doing by receiving a SMS everytime you update your status message or just by surfing into the service on the web. They can even connect the service to their favorite Instant Messenger network and get status message updates from there.
At first it seems like a strange idea, why would I need that? But when you start using it it´s quite addictive to follow what your friends are doing. Both services seem to get a lot of users and hype right now.
We like the idea so we´ll add support for both services in Jargong, starting with Twitter in the upcoming version.
If you connect your Twitter account to Jargong then everytime you login to Jargong the client will automatically fetch your status message from Twitter and set it as your IM status message and then each time you update your IM status message in Jargong your status message at Twitter will automatically be updated. Pretty nice and simple, right?
So what´s up with the upcoming version? Well we´re getting there, soon. It took some more time than expected to add all the features that we wanted in this version. But we think it´ll be quite good..
We can reveal for our blog readers that we implemented Flickr support. Yes, now you can view your online photos on your mobile phone anytime, anywhere. You can even make a Flickr search and comment on other peoples photos as you can see on the screenshots below. We hope you´ll like it!
The idea is to share what you´re doing right now, how you´re feeling or just any thought you might have, with your friends simply by answering the question: "What you are doing?".
You can update this "status message of your life" in many ways: on the web, by sending a SMS or by using a mobile application.
Your friends can then keep track of what you´re doing by receiving a SMS everytime you update your status message or just by surfing into the service on the web. They can even connect the service to their favorite Instant Messenger network and get status message updates from there.
At first it seems like a strange idea, why would I need that? But when you start using it it´s quite addictive to follow what your friends are doing. Both services seem to get a lot of users and hype right now.
We like the idea so we´ll add support for both services in Jargong, starting with Twitter in the upcoming version.
If you connect your Twitter account to Jargong then everytime you login to Jargong the client will automatically fetch your status message from Twitter and set it as your IM status message and then each time you update your IM status message in Jargong your status message at Twitter will automatically be updated. Pretty nice and simple, right?
So what´s up with the upcoming version? Well we´re getting there, soon. It took some more time than expected to add all the features that we wanted in this version. But we think it´ll be quite good..
We can reveal for our blog readers that we implemented Flickr support. Yes, now you can view your online photos on your mobile phone anytime, anywhere. You can even make a Flickr search and comment on other peoples photos as you can see on the screenshots below. We hope you´ll like it!
