Like so many of those services that I sign up for I completely forgot that I had an account until I went to PodCamp last weekend.
What’s attractive about Jaiku, for me at least, is that it’s a sort of mini-blog format that also allows you to share your other RSS feeds, so my “presence” is populated with my various blog posts, last.fm activity and anything that I’ve actually posted to Jaiku directly.
One of the features that really interests me is the concept of “channels”, so that you can talk about specific topics or, as in the case of podcamp, events.
Being able to post quick one liners is nice and you can get some interesting discussions going with your contacts that you might not have otherwise.
The only thing that concerns me is that the service is free and I can’t see how it will be able to remain free in the long term. Yes they are showing Adsense ads on the sidebar, but how many users are actually clicking? How can they afford to send all the SMS updates etc., to the thousands of users?
Is there a business aspect to the service that I’ve missed?
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