Many of the social media pros have left their Jaiku accounts and moved to new micro-blogging platforms including Twitter and FriendFeed. I was late to Jaiku but appreciated both the channels concepts for hashtags, the icons for identification (taxonomy of the posts) and per post comment thread features (much like FriendFeed) that made this tool look like a great place to camp.
Jaiku was acquired by Google almost two years ago and subsequently became JaikuEngine served from Google App Engine.
March 12, 2009 Jaikido Blog Post: JaikuEngine differs from Jaiku in a few key ways. Although core features like the website, SMS (in the US only) and IM bot still work, feed fetching and international SMS are no longer available. via Jaikido Blog
It took me a while to piece together all the details of what had become of Jaiku and I can remember searching with anticipation of finding a super Jaiku iPhone app. To my surprise, I found only one Jaiku app, mJaiku. I tried to make the mJaiku app work but unfortunately could never get the app fully connected and interactive with my Jaiku account on either my iPod Touch running iPhone 2.0 OS or my iPhone 3 G. As of the iPhone OS 3.0 update, the app is no longer available in the iTunes store.
The simplicity (much like Twitter) of Jaiku was the beauty to me. With just a few more UI elements to help organize information and provide taxonomy cues as an overlay to the microblog posts I was convinced this was a best of class tool. The service is active today and you can view the Jaiku Tour. I know that many iconic users have since left the site and many Jaiku users display lasts posts from months or years ago.
Today, if you want to use Jaiku on your mobile device, you can use m.jaiku.com.
March 13, 2009 Jaikido Blog Post: Yesterday, we flipped the switch and moved Jaiku to App Engine. Today, we are open sourcing the Jaiku code base under the Apache License 2.0. The code is available as JaikuEngine on Google Code Project Hosting as of now. Anyone can set up and run their own JaikuEngine instance on Google App Engine. via Jaikido Blog.
I’d like to know if anyone else is looking for or working on an open source JaikuEngine project and iPhone app? I’m very interested in the potential use of this application for magazine publishers and how both small groups of users and very large groups might take advantage of this tool to interact within a publisher’s media niche.
Related Links:
Support Site for mJaiku http://getsatisfaction.com/mjaiku
Support on Jaiku http://www.jaiku.com/channel/jaiku
Google Code http://code.google.com/p/jaikuengine/
