Roland Tanglao's Weblog

I hope this means my friend Andy Smith who works for Jaiku gets money++ to do more cool things. Go Jaiku go!

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Technology has made staying in touch with your friends and family both easier and harder: living a fast-paced, on-the-go lifestyle is easier (and a lot of fun), but it's more difficult to keep track of everyone when they're running around at warp speed. That's why we're excited to announce that we've acquired Jaiku, a company that's been hard at work developing useful and innovative applications for staying in touch with the people you care about most -- regardless of whether you're at a computer or on a mobile phone. Current Jaiku users can still use the service normally, and new folks can sign up for an invitation to the service when we're ready to expand. We plan to use the ideas and technology behind Jaiku to make compelling and useful products. Although we don't have definite plans to announce at this time, we're excited about helping drive the next round of developments in web and mobile technology. We wish a hearty Google welcome to Jaiku, and are looking forward to working together on new and innovative ways of keeping people connected.

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I hope the increased N81 and N95 RAM (it's doubled) means I can finally run ShoZu, Jaiku (and heck maybe even a VOIP program) simultaneously and have hundreds of pictures and a few videos without S60 crashing with out of memory errors. Fingers crossed.

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Q: How much RAM does the N81 have, and has there been any improvements in sound quality? A: the amount of free RAM will be ~90MB

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Ken Camp is doing a great job of explaining why the Jaiku mobile client is the future (or at least the ideas are behind it are the future). The key idea is that you can see the presence of your friends and then participate in multi-threaded public conversations as well as (I hope) in the future private messages as well as voice over ip calls and heck even SMS to those people who don't have fancy phones. All of this is done over IP (so it obviously requires a world of affordable unlimited mobile internet); no need to pay the ridiculous phone call, IMS, or SMS "tax" er charge :-) and it's better because of the presence information! Imagine if this was combined with something like Iotum's Relevance engine.... hmmmm. This will happen; just not as fast as early adopters like myself would like.