Jaiku from your Instant Messenger!
August 30th, 2007
Our IM service is today available for general use. We’ve had our lovely beta testers thrashing at it for a while now, and they’ve done their best to help us make it great!
Jaiku IM allows you to communicate with all your Jaiku contacts using your (XMPP based) instant messaging client, such as Google Talk.
Here’s what you get in a nutshell:
- Notifications of new Jaikus from your contacts
- Web feeds items from the feeds you follow
- Commenting using @screenname
- Post your own Jaikus (even to channels!) right from your desktop
Of course, sometimes you might want to not have all that going on in your IM, so you can even stop the updates for a while (we don’t mind, honestly - we know you actually need to work sometimes).
To get started, go to your Jaiku IM settings page (you’ll need to be logged in), enter your IM address into the box, and click ‘Activate’. You’ll be presented with a passcode (this is how we make sure that people can only activate their own account). Then, add jaiku@jaiku.com to your buddy list in your IM client, and send us an IM message containing the passcode you were presented. It’s that easy!
For more help, see the Instant Messaging How-to in our Help & FAQ section. There’s also a quick reference to IM & SMS commands.
If you’ve got questions, problems, or just want to hang around with a bunch of IMing Jaikuers you can join #imku (that’s where our beta testers have been hanging out).
Speaking of our beta testers, we owed them a big vote of thanks - services like this wouldn’t be anywhere near as great as they are without feedback from our dedicated team of testers. So… Thanks folks! Keep the feedback coming :)
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August 30th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
Ingrid Says:
Fantastic work guys. It even works posting through Pidgin.
August 30th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
James Walker Says:
Congrats guys! This is good stuff… and how about those beta testers, eh? I think they deserve tshirts! ;)
August 31st, 2007 at 12:37 am
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September 4th, 2007 at 2:53 am
K H Says:
Whoa! I love this feature.
September 4th, 2007 at 2:58 pm