Jaiku and Twitter

Twitter is a pretty cool creation. It's like a microblog: a blog where entries can be a max of 14 characters long. Perfect for making entries via SMS, which I do every once in a while. Okay, a few times a day to this point.

I've heard Twitter described as a presence stream or an away message on steroids. I like it; it's like a running public diary of what I'm doing at any time. It's especially nice since it can be updated from either the web or my phone.

Jaiku is similar, but even bigger. It can be a presence stream, and it can be more. You can point your Jaiku account to all of your RSS feeds and it'll aggregate them for you. That's how I'm using it.

Jaiku is currently aggregating my Twitter page, my Blogger blog, my Flickr page, and my Vox blog (which is mostly dead right now).