Comments on: Do You Twitter? We Jaiku! #TGU http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2007/09/do-you-twitter-we-jaiku-tgu.html talking about outdoor adventure... Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:24:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Robin Blandford http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2007/09/do-you-twitter-we-jaiku-tgu.html#comment-59903 Robin Blandford Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:20:12 +0000 http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2007/09/do-you-twitter-we-jaiku-tgu.html#comment-59903 900!!! oh wow! yeh - don't think I'd get away with that. 900!!! oh wow!

yeh - don’t think I’d get away with that.

]]> By: Neal McQuaid http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2007/09/do-you-twitter-we-jaiku-tgu.html#comment-59902 Neal McQuaid Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:16:41 +0000 http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2007/09/do-you-twitter-we-jaiku-tgu.html#comment-59902 back again on this as I've just been <a href="http://theusualsuspect-techmusings.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">writing on it elsewhere.</a> The neat feature was that you got a Google Talk-type status on your mobile phone (i.e. green/orange/red depending on your status - it was dependent on your mobile's sound profile - red if all notifications are turned off, amber if on 'silent', and green if volume cranked up, etc.). You can do all that other funkiness like update your status and all that (including it giving vague location status based on mobile phone transmitters - names for each area were filled in by the user and shared amongst your contacts meaning they're relevant to the users), but we never bought into that on the mobile - I just found it brilliant that people knew not to contact me on my phone at times by phone and send a text (e.g. if I've my profile set to 'meeting', I used to get a text message instead from them). And as I now see that Google have bought Jaiku, who's willing to bet that we see Google Talk showing up on our mobile's soon as a direct integration........ Only bad experience? Firstly, data is heavy so you can have a nasty phone bill (my personal best in one month while working for one of the <a href="www.vodafone.ie" rel="nofollow">telcos</a> was almost €900 - the joys of an unlimited bill ;) and your battery takes a pounding - expect to charge your mobile every night if this ever takes off! back again on this as I’ve just been writing on it elsewhere.

The neat feature was that you got a Google Talk-type status on your mobile phone (i.e. green/orange/red depending on your status - it was dependent on your mobile’s sound profile - red if all notifications are turned off, amber if on ’silent’, and green if volume cranked up, etc.). You can do all that other funkiness like update your status and all that (including it giving vague location status based on mobile phone transmitters - names for each area were filled in by the user and shared amongst your contacts meaning they’re relevant to the users), but we never bought into that on the mobile - I just found it brilliant that people knew not to contact me on my phone at times by phone and send a text (e.g. if I’ve my profile set to ‘meeting’, I used to get a text message instead from them).
And as I now see that Google have bought Jaiku, who’s willing to bet that we see Google Talk showing up on our mobile’s soon as a direct integration……..

Only bad experience? Firstly, data is heavy so you can have a nasty phone bill (my personal best in one month while working for one of the telcos was almost €900 - the joys of an unlimited bill ;) and your battery takes a pounding - expect to charge your mobile every night if this ever takes off!

]]> By: Robin Blandford http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2007/09/do-you-twitter-we-jaiku-tgu.html#comment-59770 Robin Blandford Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:02:57 +0000 http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2007/09/do-you-twitter-we-jaiku-tgu.html#comment-59770 Most of the entire Irish Twitter lot seemed to have moved. Most of the entire Irish Twitter lot seemed to have moved.

]]> By: Aisling http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2007/09/do-you-twitter-we-jaiku-tgu.html#comment-59769 Aisling Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:59:58 +0000 http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2007/09/do-you-twitter-we-jaiku-tgu.html#comment-59769 I feel left out now, you're all over there. :-( Better check it out...... I feel left out now, you’re all over there. :-(
Better check it out……

]]> By: Robin Blandford http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2007/09/do-you-twitter-we-jaiku-tgu.html#comment-59768 Robin Blandford Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:50:51 +0000 http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2007/09/do-you-twitter-we-jaiku-tgu.html#comment-59768 Just had a great idea. If you join the #tgu channel you now get all comments from the site and boards posts into your instant message client! works well. Just had a great idea.

If you join the #tgu channel you now get all comments from the site and boards posts into your instant message client!

works well.

]]> By: Robin Blandford http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2007/09/do-you-twitter-we-jaiku-tgu.html#comment-59767 Robin Blandford Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:49:32 +0000 http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2007/09/do-you-twitter-we-jaiku-tgu.html#comment-59767 you know you can use it via IM? G-talk/Jabber. I have never used it on a phone yet. IM & Web only for me. you know you can use it via IM? G-talk/Jabber. I have never used it on a phone yet. IM & Web only for me.

]]> By: Neal McQuaid http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2007/09/do-you-twitter-we-jaiku-tgu.html#comment-59757 Neal McQuaid Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:54:33 +0000 http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2007/09/do-you-twitter-we-jaiku-tgu.html#comment-59757 cool! I raved about Jaiku last year when in my previous life in the Real World. Much more thoughtful than Twitter and when it intergrated properly into your address book, it was awesome. Now that I have to pay for my phone bill however, I won't be using it anytime soon :) cool! I raved about Jaiku last year when in my previous life in the Real World.
Much more thoughtful than Twitter and when it intergrated properly into your address book, it was awesome.
Now that I have to pay for my phone bill however, I won’t be using it anytime soon :)

]]> By: Robin Blandford http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2007/09/do-you-twitter-we-jaiku-tgu.html#comment-59752 Robin Blandford Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:42:27 +0000 http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2007/09/do-you-twitter-we-jaiku-tgu.html#comment-59752 I spotted @darran too!!!! http://darran.jaiku.com/ I spotted @darran too!!!!

http://darran.jaiku.com/

]]> By: Robin Blandford http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2007/09/do-you-twitter-we-jaiku-tgu.html#comment-59750 Robin Blandford Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:40:10 +0000 http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2007/09/do-you-twitter-we-jaiku-tgu.html#comment-59750 bah! bah!

]]> By: Alx Cahiz http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2007/09/do-you-twitter-we-jaiku-tgu.html#comment-59749 Alx Cahiz Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:37:30 +0000 http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2007/09/do-you-twitter-we-jaiku-tgu.html#comment-59749 ummmm... I use twitter too.... lol add me on twitter too! ALXtreme ummmm… I use twitter too…. lol

add me on twitter too! ALXtreme

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