(Thanks, Linkorama)

I blogged about Jaiku here about a year ago, and Gerrit blogged about Twitter more recently:

Joi Ito has blogged about Jaiku vs Twitter:

Looks like a bunch of people are trying out Jaiku after “tasting” co-presence with Twitter. To me, Jaiku, which existed before Twitter, is a bunch of Helsinki mobile jocks getting into the Web 2.0 of it all whereas Twitter is the Web 2.0 crowd “getting” co-presence.

Twitter was funny for me because it was like the whole “laptop crowd” getting the “aha” that Europe and Asia had with SMS awhile back - the idea that the Internet isn’t about “cyberspace” that turns on when you open your laptop, but that the Internet was something that you could carry around with you and that could ping you when it needed you.

Jaiku was neat because it was everything we had all been telling Nokia that we wanted in mobile devices, but that Nokia never seemed to deliver for us. It took a small group of mobile geeks who also got the Web to build an integrated experience.

And Marko Ahtisaari blogged about Why I use Jaiku:

For me Jaiku is about:

1. Silent sociality - checking up on what my friends are up to when convenient, and posting my own state knowing that I won’t be disturbing others (unless they have explicitly asked to be alerted).

2. Small-group sociality - Jaiku is not about celebrity. I’m interested in sharing state with a small group I’m nearly always in contact with, what Mimi Ito has called full-time intimate community.

3. Mobile sociality - Jaiku was designed with the mobile “living phonebook” interface in mind. SMS alerts crowding the inbox of one of the few working personal and functional communication channels is not my idea of improving communication. I use the SMS-in posting to Jaiku when I’m using my Nokia 8800 and with my N70 I use the Jaiku phonebook.

4. Background sociality - Jaiku allows me to integrate other online identities and feeds (including delicious, flickr and any RSS) into my single jaiku presence feed. This is done in a way that doesn’t confuse these background posts with my explicit state messages.

(Thanks, Linkorama)
I blogged about Jaiku here about a year ago, and Gerrit blogged about Twitter more recently:
Joi Ito has blogged about Jaiku vs Twitter:
Looks like a bunch of people are trying out Jaiku after “tasting” co-presence with Twitter. To me, Jaiku, which existed before Twitter, is a bunch of Helsinki mobile jocks getting into the [...]