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I have been using Twit­ter for quite a time in the past, and I liked it.

From a cou­ple of weeks I have dropped Twit­ter and I have jumped into Jaiku.

I have writ­ten in the past that I think that quite all appli­ca­tions should be built around the Con­tact list since it’s a rev­enue gen­er­a­tor by itself.

It seems that the guys at Jaiku were lis­ten­ing to me.

Jaiku is quite sim­i­lar to Twit­ter in its con­cept. The great thing is that is can replace your stan­dard con­tact appli­ca­tion. This is what I have done on the Nokia N73 that I am using at the moment.

You can update your pres­ence data from inside the con­tact list with­out send­ing an SMS as required by Twit­ter. You can have a look at what your friends are doing sim­ply open­ing the con­tact list.

Since when I have started using Jaiku I become addicted to it and update my sta­tus more often than I used to with Twitter.

In some way my con­tact list is no more a sta­tic thing. It’s alive and really push me to stay in touch with my friends.

If you want you can have a look at what I am doing by click­ing here.

Why do I blog this ? This is a per­fect expam­ple of what I think a mobile appli­ca­tion should be. In some way it is an aug­mented con­tact list and it is a bril­liant implementation.

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