Presence is key

July 16th, 2006 · 5 Comments · Personal, moblog, software, travel

There are two interesting things breaking this weekend on the mobile presence scene…

Twittr is from Odeo / Blogger and lets you set up a simple group on SMS. It’s actually very slick especially given how simple it is. You just text your message to the universal short code - 40404 - and everyone in your social space gets the update. You can choose to share your messages on the public homepage (I’ve opted out) or not. There’s some simple lingo that lets you ping or track a friend as well as control the level of messaging you receive.

Jaiku is another app that lets you socialize your contact list on Series 60 second edition devices like the Nokia N70. I realize that’s a limited set compared to Twittr which lets you send to anyone regardless of carrier or phone type, but it’s a very interesting way to guage outside of the usual IM space what’s happening with people of interest. I’ve added my status to the blog sidebar for a bit of “flare.” I like how it tracks the cell towers and lets you give the zone you are in a name like home for example. It did pick up my city which is cool as I am in a small westchester suburb currently… My status page is here.

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5 responses so far ↓

1 The Laurence Timms State Machine // Jul 17, 2006 at 2:35 pm

of other twits, you twit. Perhaps ‘twit’ doesn’t have the same connotations in the US. Twits. UPDATE: Lots of chat around Twttr this morning. Check it out, courtesy of chuquet.com: Planet Web 2.0 Ross Mayfield’s Weblog Many to Many 21talks atmaspheric endeavors evhead ben barren technorati tags:twttr, odeo, sms, text, messaging, beta, launch
2 Nokia N70 Blog // Jul 23, 2006 at 2:46 pm

tells us about a new presence service called Jaiku
3 azeem // Aug 8, 2006 at 8:11 am

jaiku doesn’t work on s60v3 like the n93, and twittr doesn’t work outside the US. darn.
4 Jonathan Greene // Aug 8, 2006 at 10:12 am

I hear you - love to use Jaiku on my N91. Though actually I’d like to know some people who use it to really take advantage of it.
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