Nanoblogging with Jaiku

My friends aren’t quite getting this whole nano or picoblogging thing. I think nanoblogging is a better term. People know what that means. Picoblogging, on the other hand… well… it’s a bit techie.

I had to text Ed and and tell him to update his Jaiku. Which sort of defeats the objective, doesn’t it?

Everyone else on my list is either offline (shouldn’t be allowed) or … well… yes, they’re offline. My dad is getting it. Now and again, that is. At least he’s got the application on, though.

Hetty, well, she was using it really well with me — and then — disaster! I happened to mention that she should look out for her data bill, being a Vodafone user. At £2.35 a meg, that’s a shocker of a potential bill. So she’s stopped using it temporarily.

I’m a bit alone on Jaiku. No one’s using it yet! Come on folk!

Right, I talked to Hetty about her suspending use of Jaiku. I asked if it was just the data costs that stopped her using it. Her answer?

Yep all cos of the costs. I liked it but would only use it if it was free. Certainly not worth paying for.

Arse. She’s right, of course. At £2.35 a meg, who would? But it cuts deep into my mobile soul to read ‘Certainly not worth paying for’. From a fiscal point of view, she’s correct. But alas she’s applied the costs of the (Vodafone) data to Jaiku and stopped using it. How disappointing.

This is a super, super example of how the data pricing, particularly in the UK, is really nailing the mobile market. When people get bill-shock (or in this case, pre-bill shock), they generally react negatively. In this case, all the good that was being done for Jaiku, for the mobile market in general, was wiped out immediately. The application was simply switched off.

(That is, until she gets a better deal….)