Jaikido Blog

Today we’ve released a new, much better way to browse and manage your connections to other people on Jaiku.

In response to many user requests, we’ve added a way to easily check who’s following you. In other words, you can now find out the truth about how popular you really are…

And should you so desire, you can now easily reciprocate by adding your followers as your contacts with one click.

Also, as part of the overhaul, we’ve renamed the ‘Contacts’ section to ‘People’, so everyone can find it easily, and to reflect the broader range of connections you can now manage there.

Last but not least, we’ve added a new feature called ‘People you might know’. It is a list of the newly joined members that people you follow have added as their contacts. This is a great way to find real-life friends to connect with on Jaiku, so we encourage you to go take a look and try it out.

As a quick recap, the main features of the release are as follows:

• “Contacts” section is now titled “People”
• An easy-to-manage list of your contacts
• A list of your followers
• New people on Jaiku that you might know

…So get in there, and find out who loves you that you’ve been missing for all this time!

After the introduction of our IM interface to Jaiku last week, we received a lot of valuable user feedback. Ralph put in some extra hours, and today we’re introducing a few important improvements.

Firstly, we’ve simplified the activation. You can now just add jaiku@jaiku.com to your buddy list using your desktop IM application, and send the IM message “SIGN IN <screenname> <password>” to log in to your Jaiku account.

You can also create a new Jaiku account by sending the message “SIGN UP <desired username>”. The bot will generate a password for you, and you’re set to go.

Secondly, you can now easily sign out of your Jaiku account and sign in as a different user. To do so, just send “SIGN OUT” and you’re ready to sign in with a different identity.

If you accidentally created a new Jaiku account, you can delete it with the command “DELETE ME”. (We’ve added a confirmation step that asks you to send “DELETE ME” once more to prevent mistakes).

Thanks to everyone who took the time to send us suggestions and feedback!