2 posts tagged “microblog”

I’m going to talk a little about Social Awareness now. As you know there’s a lot of people that blog’s and also a lot of them that reads blog’s. There’s an undeniable fact that people now rather read blog’s than they read newspapers. Maybe it’s out of curiosity or simple that we got sick and tired from the news flow consisting of evil, war and violence.
My own theory is that what’s drives us to read what other people blog about is also a curiosity to have an insight in others life’s. Whatever makes us read blog’s I’m convinced that the blog’s are here to stay…. At least for a while.

Now back to my issue for the day: Micro blogging!

There’s a lot of ways to micro blog and will only cover a few, i.e. the ones I use. The ways for you to micro blog is: text, photo, video and sound.

The systems:

Jaiku -            Text based system
Twitter -          Text based system
Pownce -         Text based system, also other formats
Tumblr -          Text based system, also other formats

Flixwagon –    Video blogging
QIK –              Video blogging

LastFM – Share what you are listening to and discuss it with others.

I will now comment a bit about this different systems.

Jaiku: The first time I got in contact with micro blogging was when I started to look around on the Net to find articles about Nokia N95 which was the next mobile phone that I wanted to get. And what I could see was that a lot of the bloggers I was reading spoke warmelyy about Jaiku. So when I finally got my N95 I just had to set up an account with Jaiku, but got really disappointed whn I found out that you needed an invite to use it. Well I have never been the kind of guy that gives up, so I started to search for way to get an invite.
And on http://jaikuinvites.com/ I found that possibility to get invited to Jaiku. My sponsor is and Danish guy (Per, will always be grateful to you! Thanks once again!)
Finally after signing up, I found out that there was ways to get feeds from your other sources into Jaiku (like your blog(s), Flickr, LastFm etc.). But for me was the most important thing that there is a client for N95 (S60 phones). Today I use Jaiku as my main source/tool to micro blog. (Ps. I’ve got invites if somebody is seriously interested, but you really need to be serious!) You can update Jaiku via Webb, Mobile, IM.

Twitter: Twitter was the first service I connected to mainly because it’s an open system, you don’t need an invite to sign up with them. And there’s a simple client for it too.
Twitter is a simpler system than Jaiku, but I use twitter almost as frequent as Jaiku. You can update Twitter via Webb, Sms and mobile.

Pownce: I have only been signing up with Pownce and checked around a bit, and I don’t feel it will be one of my main sources to use. But maybe you are?
You can use it form you mobile, via browser on this address: http://mobile.pownce.com/
You can update Pownce via Webb, Pc-client and Sms.

Tumblr: The same goes for Tumblr so it’s to early to make any verdict. You can update Tumblr via Webb, Email or by singing in to you own Tumblr site, the address looks like this: http://yourname.tumblr.com/mobile

Flixwagon:  Video blogging on a high level! I totally love Flixwagon, and I haven’t been using it that much….yet, but I will use it more in the future. Hat I can see is that Flixwagon has better quality than QIK which is their closest competitor. A really cool thing is that you can chat in real-time with your viewers. It’s simply Ubercool! Oh yes, there’s (of course) a client for your S60 phone!

QIK:  Seriously it’s also good, but can not match Flixwagon for me at least! Client for S60 phones.

LastFm: I have already talked about LastFm and that article is Here!

One of my conclusions I have to form all this is: How public does one want to be? And what use can YOU get from micro blogging? For me the answer is simple and clear because I want to find as mobile solutions for both my professional and social networking and from my point of view Jaiku, Twitter and all the other tools are just means to be used in that respect and also great fun when you start to get a bigger network.

Primarily a cellphone is for communication and I'm going to look into that now for a little while.
When I got my first cellphone back in 1995 it had only two ways to communicate and that was sms (rarely used) and calls. And we all was very happy with that, email wasn't a big thing either in those days, I got my first internet at home in spring 1996. Actually it wasn't until 2003 when I got my first smartphone (Nokia3650) the world started to open up from the mobile side of life. Suddenly I could get me emails on my phone, and that was really great as I could read and answer them when I was commuting from and to work.
The ways to communicate for my on my cellphone today is the same as I do on my computer. I will talk now about them.

• Calls. I use it for ordinary calls and for calls via VOIP
  For VOIP I use FRING and this software works perfectly both via WIFI and 3G. Here I use my SKYPE account right now!
  
• Sms. I use both the built in software for that but as it lacks smiley's I have also installed A-Sms and that's really good to use when sending sms with smiley's.
  
• Email. I use the built in client for my pop email accounts, Yahoo GO for Yahoo mail, GMAIL for Googlemail and Windowslive for my Hotmail account.
  
• Chat. Here I use mostly NimBuzz (Discussed here before!) and sometimes/rarely Fring.
  
• MicroBlog's. I use Jaiku a lot and sometimes also Twitter (by the way I'm Cityrat59 on Jaiku and cityrat59 at Twitter if somebody like contact me over there!).
  
• Videoblogging. This area is new to me and I'm still trying to figure that one out. But I have tried QIK and recently I've got the possibility to use Flixwagon and I have to say that Flixwagon is better, especially the quality of the movie flicks you make.
• Photos and movies. I really love the solution TWANGO (OVI - Nokia) offers and I now have uploaded all my digital media there to make sure it's safely stored.
  

So looking back and knowing where we are now, isn't it an amazing development which we haven't seen the end of. In my wildest dreams I couldn't imagine have all my communication in the palm of my hand. although I was hoping that this would happen now we're there!