Wednesday, 2007-04-11

Battle of the nanoblogs

So no sooner have I been sucked into the Twitter-verse but I found out about Jaiku which sometimes feels like a knockoff but arguably has more features.

They have a S60 client in beta, which compares favourably for me to Twitter’s SMS-only posting. On the other hand, Twitter’s IM posting is mighty convenient. Jaiku hasn’t got one yet.

As of now, it’s easier to post to Twitter and have Jaiku pick up the comments via RSS (see this post for a good description). The reverse is not true, as you cannot easily grab RSS feeds from Twitter. However, there are workarounds. Jim Hughes writes about one here.

And that’s not even mentioning yet another nano-blogging service, Loopnote.

For now, I’m going to stick with Twitter but use Jaiku as a feed aggregator for stuff like Flickr and del.icio.us. If you wanna stalk me Web 2.0 style, grab the feed from gerikson.jaiku.com.

May the best time-wasting service win!