Jaiku is rolling out Jabber-based instant messaging capabilities to interact with the service and provide a new way for people to communicate and share content in addition to the existing Web, iPhone, and Nokia Series 60 smart phone clients.
The difference between the Twitter and Jaiku IM functionality is representative of the differences that exist between the services in general. Twitter’s IM client lets users update and read “tweets.” With Jaiku, users can do much more.
By adding jaiku@jaiku.com to Jabber-based IM clients (including Google Talk), the new IM bot introduces the ability to instantly add and read new posts, comments, channel-specific messages, and also receive notifications of inbound responses directly.
Jaiku also lets users choose and receive pre-determined Web feeds from their friends online activities via IM, for example, flickr photos from some contacts, updates from specific blogs, Last.fm recently played tracks from others, etc.
Jaiku is the most versatile microblogging platform available today, allowing anyone to easily post and discover new content in Jaiku’s online community. It goes several steps further than other presence applications by allowing readers to add comments to individual posts and also allowing anyone to create, join and participate in topic related channels.
Jaiku is also a hub for all important online activity. It creates a personal lifestream by fetching the RSS feeds from other personal sources and broadcast it to friends and contacts as it happens, such as when new videos are uploaded on YouTube, business or personal blog posts are published, new social bookmarks are saved, or even collect the status updates from other microblogs and presence apps. Jaiku also recently introduced a Facebook widget for people to send updates directly from their Facebook profile.
Third party developers have also extended Jaiku’s functionality for all major mobile and desktop platforms. Mobile users can access Jaiku via http://m.jaiku.com. The Nokia WidSets mobile widget also powers over 300 phones including Blackberry.
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