Roundup of Jaiku Tools

It’s official. I now have more friends on Jaiku than Twitter. It also occurred to me that I haven’t seen a list a of Jaiku-related tools. Here are some of the ones I’ve run across.

SMS

The main problem right now is the lack of SMS integration, at least for a subset of Jaiku users. It seems that customers of CDMA users in the North America are having problems receiving the activation messages required to link their mobile to their Jaiku account. GSM carriers seem to be working okay. We’ve been told that the long-term solution is a US shortcode and it will take a few weeks to make it active. In the meantime, the Jaiku are manually activating (linking) Jaiku accounts to mobile numbers.

IM

Given the potential number of updates, I think I still prefer IM integration. I use the IM+ client on my Treo 650 (though they support a wide variety of Palm, Windows, and Java-enabled phones) in lieu of SMS. It allows me to both receive updates and update my presence.

• IMified – This is a cool service all by itself, but particularly useful are the WordPress, del.icio.us, urlTea, Reminders, Todo, Notes, Google Calendar, Twitter, Jaiku, and Twitter+Jaiku widgets. I was looking today at how to create your own widgets and I have a feeling I’m going to be giving that a try sooner rather than later. The IMified guys also say the Jaiku widget will soon support notifications just like the Twitter widget.
• Anothr – Anothr is an IM bot which allows you to read RSS feeds. It will work okay for getting Jaiku updates until IMified adds notification
• WordPress Plug-in

Mobile

• Jaiku Moblet – A mojax moblet to directly interface with Jaiku through the Jaiku API.

Desktop Applications

Many of these application are still very early in development, but they show that apps are being worked on and will definitely compete in functionality with any of the Twitter apps.

Cross-platform

• Nitwit
  • Desktop application for GNU/Linux, Windows and Mac OS X (screenshot)
  • Works accross many protocols like Twitter, Jaiku, Jabber and IRC
  • Multilanguage (french, english and more to come)
  • Extremely simple interface
• Jaiku Gadget – Gadget for Google Homepage

Mac

• JaikuGrowler -Peter Rukavina’s JaikuGrowl is an AppleScript that allows you to receive alerts from Growl whenever you or any of your Jaiku contacts emit a new “Jaiku”.
• Jaiku-Plazes Quicksilver Script – Script to let you update from Quicksilver, works with Plazes to set your location (though it isn’t required).
• Dashboard Widget
• Twaiku – Bwana took several of the Quicksilver/Growler scripts and mashed them together to create Twaiku.
• Juhu – A Mac OSX client for Jaiku

Windows

• Jay-Q – A Windows app being developed by Jeremy Brown. I think it has a lot of potential and has come a long way in just a few days.
• Sideku – A Windows Vista sidebar gadget by Patrick Jakubowski

I know there’s probably other ways to interface with Jaiku out there. If you know of another one, please leave a comment. You can also join in on the fun at the Jaiku Support channel, the Developer channel, or the Jaiku Developer site.