The web is so cool these days. It’s a big playground were you can virtually mashup any service you think of!
Yesterday I was thinking about using ShoZu in order to enable quick and easy posting of messages to Jaiku. Unfortunately ShoZu doesn’t support this feature (yet). I contacted the guys an girls from ShoZu but didn’t get a reply yet. So if Shozu isn’t available what’s the next best option? Posting via email! A lot of online services support posting content to their site by sending an email to a specific (private) adres. Flickr is for instance one of them where you get your own secret email address to where you can send photos that will automatically be published.
Unfortunately (again…) Jaiku doesn’t support this private email feature (yet?). On the other hand Jaiku is great at aggregating RSS feeds. Here comes Twitter to the rescue. Twitter does have support to post messages using an email adres, this support is enabled by TwitterMail. The only thing left to do is to import your Twitter RSS feed in Jaiku and you’re done! So chaining everything together will give the following use case:
- Create an email on your phone
- Send the email to your private TwitterMail adres
- TwitterMail publishes you message on Twitter
- Jaiku aggregates your Twitter rss feed and publishes your message
There you go, posting messages to Jaiku via your mobile email client! I would rather not use Twitter, but I see no other option until Jaiku adopts the private email feature.
It’s a bit messy but it works and a worthy web 2.0 mashup I would say ;)
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I use widsets for this purpose, as the Jaiku feed aggregator might take some time to fetch the desired feed. However this is a fancy ‘piped’ solution too! No tollways but still arriving at its destination ;)
By the time I’v started up the Jaiku Widget my inspiration is usually long gone :)
Maybe the new (soon) to release Jaiku Mobile client will bring some enlightment in this.
Nothing seems to be easier than seeing someone whom you can help but not helping.
I suggest we start giving it a try. Give love to the ones that need it.
God will appreciate it.
You can probe mailwithme . It´s a email client for celullar phones thats supports IMAP and POP3 including gmail and yahoo accounts.
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[...] Just 2 days after I managed to send email message to Jaiku using Twittermail, Jaiku has already catched up. Mailku has seen the light. Mailku lets you send direct messages to Jaiku using email. It’s plain and simple (as it should be). [...]
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