Topic Archives: Jaiku

Top Five Tips for Brand Success on Twitter: Conversion through Conversation

Twitter’s here. You can’t visit a website or turn a page, digital or otherwise, without reading about it. Whether it’s Jonathan Ross’ banter or breaking news stories - Sky has a Twitter correspondent and CNN has the highest following of any user; yet it’s the user who’s breaking news first - the plane dumping in [...]

Twittequette - Twitter and the art of inclusion

This blog post was originally going to be ‘blogging and the art of inclusion’ so the thoughts and ideas replicate themselves well on blogs. Perhaps that’s not surprising as Twitter (and Jaiku) are defined in some spheres as ‘microblogging’.
I am in the process of writing ‘5 tips for brands on Twitter’ of which this will [...]

Micro-blogging: When Does A Trickle Become A Flood?

One of the ways in which Web 2.0 can be characterised is by sites which deal with “presence”, i.e. short form communication, which is constrained to bite-sized chunks of information.
Twitter is a contemporary web phenomenon which illustrates the phenomenon very well. Calling itself a “communication utility” Twitter recently announced it has raised US$20.4m of funding. [...]

The Advance of Unified Communications - Twitter & Jaiku

Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft have all reached for their chequebooks in recent months to snap up companies which are developing similar new technologies to use in very different ways.
One of Google’s most recent acquisitions is the social-networking platform Jaiku.com. The site allows its members to share their activity-streams via a wide range of technological touch-points. [...]