Jaiku, a microblogging platform for lifestreaming, announced that it has added Jabber-based instant messaging capabilities to interact with the service and provide a new way for people to communicate and share content.
Jaiku also lets users choose and receive pre-determined web feeds from their friends online activities via IM, for example, flickr photos from some contacts, updates from specific blogs, Last.fm recently played tracks from others, etc.
Jaiku allows anyone to easily post and discover new content in Jaiku’s online community. It goes several steps further than other presence applications by allowing readers to add comments to individual posts and also allowing anyone to create, join and participate in topic related channels.
Third party developers have also extended Jaiku’s functionality for all major mobile and desktop platforms. Mobile users can access Jaiku via m.jaiku.com.
Originally posted on August 30, 2007 @ 10:01 am
I was using imified.com to post to twitter and jaiku both. But, I still had twitter added to my google talk buddy list so i could get updates from it. Being able to get jaiku updates now will be a nice feature. Now I won’t have to go to the site to find out if I missed anything. Jaiku is really coming around. I wonder how long twitter can hold them off?