Jaiku As Story Teller (or: Jaiku Works)

Mark Wubben posted this great and telling screenshot, which precisely shows what Jaiku does. (just as this one about what Plazes does)

Today a big storm is crossing the Netherlands. On behalf of the police the national railsystem has been halted. As I was on the other side of the country today I am stuck on the coast, while Elmine is at home 200km away. Our mutual friend Mark Wubben sees this story unfold in his Jaiku data-stream.

First Elmine posts a screenshot on Flickr about how the trains are not running due to storm. (nu_storm)
Then she posts to her blog that she is eating alone tonight. ('En daarom eet ik vanavond alleen')
Shortly after that, I open my laptop, and Plazes automatically shares that I am in Haarlem.

All three data traces get combined into Marks Jaiku stream, and constitute a story rich in context for him.
This is precisely the effect that makes these kind of tools so interesting; combining traces into patterns for those that can attach meaning to them.

(Of course both Elmine and I blogged it, which is bound to end up in Marks Jaiku stream again.....round and round it goes)

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(posted by Ton Zijlstra at January 18, 2007 08:15 PM)