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One of the most fun aspects of doing the Nokia Blogger Relations program is that I have been able to experience some different software that I normally wouldn't be able to. Not just the native Nokia apps, but some of the new and fun ones too.

One of them that I get really excited about (no really, see my personal site's last post), is Jaiku. Basically its a "living" contact list. Much like an address book you can add contacts and have immediate contact information, but you can also set presence (so that people know when and how best to contact you), and post small snippets (similar to Twitter) about what you are doing at a given moment.

In a bit of a merge between my personal life and MMM life, I am posting my Jaiku addy so that you can add me to your contact list (and I add you in return) so that we can start doing some neat communicae. Whereas some of you are incredibly busy and might see this as a bit of meandering, its my intent that by Jaiku (and other applications) that we are able to use this tech to bridge those distance gaps, and in some ways effect one another/encourage one another.

My Jaiku Page

Jakiu can be used on Nokia S60 smartphones (the N95, N75, E61i are some examples), and one can also sign up on any computer with a web browser and play with life from there. I really encourage you all to connect with me thru Jaiku, you never know when I might be in your area and want to chat :)

There is another application via the Nokia Blogger Relations program that I'll be talking about in a bit (just reset one of the devices and am getting back in queue with that). But that one too is another one of those apps that faciliate casual computing so that we can encourage one another.

It's another one of those intersetions of faith and tech; this time, I want to be like a stoplight and be a light to point some aspects of the benefits of a tech like this.

Labels: community, Jaiku, Nokia