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Wednesday, 7 November 2007
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the jaiku app i have in facebook doesn't allow me to comment directly from facebook -- it only lets me see the jaiku feeds of my friends. this is unlike the twitter app.
Tuesday, 6 November 2007
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no the initial 140 characters is fine -- if one needs to expand, do it in the subsequent comment area. initial (first) comments should be kept at a minimum or else it'll overcrowd the main page
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lol no maybe not, i think it is just that i've got too much work to do.
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look forward to the new app.
why won't jaiku add opensocial support? this is especially when it's google owning, the very company that is pitching opensocial in a big way.
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you'll be lucky if anyone even wants one. those aren't in demand anymore -- i can't give any of my 20 invites away.
Monday, 5 November 2007
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Pownce has a lot potential but came into the game late. Plus they don't really seem to want to be ahead of the game with releasing their api a little later. They should have released their api around the time they were giving their invites and when their buzz was still high. Don't think they expected their popularity to drop so much in 2 months. Now it would be interesting to see whether the developers actually bother making pownce apps with the decreasing usage.
Pownce does have the best features I believe but the worst following. I have found that many of the people there haven't logged into Pownce in a long time. A lot of people just tried it out but lost interested after awhile. I have 200+ "friends" on there and only a handful comment and post-- don't think it even reached 30 people. I think it was Techcrunch that reported that there was a 80% decline in the usage of pownce since it started.
The whole thing around Pownce was the buzz with Kevin Rose starting it but he really didn't do much to capitalize on it and move it to the next level. And how long are they planning to keep it invite only? Yet another problem why interest has dropped off. I have 20 invites I can't even give away.
Twitter is viral and the simplicity of it is second to none. Shows you really don't need fancy features or a nice looking site to be successful (like a myspace). If you really look at it, it has an ugly UI, VERY buggy, always down and yet people still use it. It was also in the game first which is a key component of their success and there are lots of apps available for it too. I think its just been that people have used it so much and have so many friends and followers that it would just be tedious to go to another social networking service to start from scratch again. And as @jezlyn said, there are alot of people who are reluctant to start another account or move too. Another thing as well is that the A List bloggers and the who's who of the internet world are on Twitter (and use it extensively) -- interesting to follow their daily twits too.
I notice something about jaiku too and that is there are a lot of people that use it to stream their twitter feeds and hardly log into their account at all. Prime example is Scoble and @ijustine.
I must say that I've been hooked on Twitter but I'm starting to become a little tired of saying something on Twitter and not being able to carry out a decent conversation or discussion as in Jaiku or Pownce. Starting to get a little old in that way -- likened to talking to a wall.
With Twitter, I find that it's becoming nicer to sit and watch spurts of twits than actually participate or text something. I hope Jaiku comes out with direct messaging support and the capability to send files -- that would probably make it as complete a messaging service as it can be compared to the others. Sad to say though that unless Pownce has something else up their sleeves, it won't last very long.
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it's the same thing with why toys or electronic equipment don't come with batteries. they'll think of anyway to make that extra money.
i once had a saleman tell me that the reason why they didn't put usb cables with printers was because customer complained that the usb cables were too short and everyone wanted different lengths. i looked at him, kinda of laughed and walked away.
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