S60 Open to new features

Jaiku is one of the latest and best S60 applications around today. Some people describe it as Presence others describe it as a Mini-blog. However you choose to describe it there is definitely something wonderfully interesting and fun about Jaiku.
Note: If you're already familiar with Jaiku and just want to know our Jaiku names mine is LonelyBob.jaiku.com and Carol's is Cybette.jaiku.com. Feel free to add us to your contacts.

Jaiku has become so popular that a party was recently held in San Fransisco, California. The creators of Jaiku flew all the way from Finland (Jaiku's home) to California for the event. It was hosted by the Chief TWiT himself, Leo Laporte. For those of you unfamiliar with Leo, he is the creator of the very popular and highly entertaining TWiT Netcast Network (TWiT = This Week in Tech). I listen to several of Leo's weekly Netcasts on a Nokia N93i during my commute to work including: TWiT, Net@Nite, FLOSS Weekly (that hasn't been so weekly lately), and the newest member of the bunch Jumping Monkeys. A compilation of photos from the Jaiku/TWiT event are posted on TWiT's Vox blog.
(I chose the title of this blog entry after the Jaiku party, herring was served at the event.)

One of the things that makes Jaiku so great is how well the mobile Jaiku application integrates with the standard S60 applications.
- Works with your existing Address Book/Contacts. Thus you can make calls and send messages right from the Jaiku mobile client.
- Keeps track of where you are using the cellular network. So when you travel and you have the Jaiku client online it updates your Jaiku account automatically based on information from the cellular network.
- Shows the Profile that your S60 device is in. So when you see your friend is in Meeting profile you know they probably don't want to be disturbed by your call.
- Optionally share your Calendar. Your friends can see what your plans are. You can choose to show the actual details of the calendar, show the meeting times as busy, or don't share your calendar at all.
- Also you can allow the client to scan for nearby bluetooth devices. The client keeps track of what Bluetooth devices are nearby and shows the total number of devices on your Jaiku account. Also you can associate the Bluetooth devices that belong to your friends with your friends and the client will show a tally of how many friends are nearby if you choose to enable this feature.

Not only are Carol and myself using Jaiku but several of the other S60 bloggers also use it. You can find MRKTNGman Jouni's Jaiku account here. Phil's Jaiku account is appropriately named S60 Online. Johanna, that blogs on Smartphonin' has her Jaiku account here. I think Tommi also occasionally uses Jaiku, but I'm not sure what his account name is.

What do you think of Jaiku?

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I think Jaiku is cool!!! Especially the new S60 client thats in the works!

Posted by: Darla | June 21, 2007 04:18 PM

I installed Jaiku a few months ago, but within a few hours I removed it. I didn't like the always on feature. I'm maybe too protective on my battery, I always close things down.

I've added it again, I'm curious as so many people are mentioning it these days. We'll see how it goes.

Posted by: Jay3gsm | June 21, 2007 05:45 PM

Darla, I haven't tried the new Jaiku client yet but I've read some good things about it by other Jaiku users that have tested it. It sounds great and am looking forward to the update!

Jay3gsm, You don't have to keep the Jaiku client in Online mode all the time. You can keep it open in the background then select "Go Online", create a new post to your Jaiku, then select "Go Offline" after your done posting. Your contacts presence will also be updated when you "Go Online" and is still visible for you to read through after you go back offline.

Posted by: Kevin | June 22, 2007 08:19 AM

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