TESTED: JAIKU

Alright people, the testing is done, and we've finally CERTIFIED Jaiku as follows:

Not So Ideal Yet Perfectly Elegant For Those Miserly Miserly People Out There Class Networker

Trouble with Jaiku is, we don't have enough invites to go around। You see, Jaiku is still
invitation-only (we're so cool, we'll have people rushing to get their jaiku in the door!) , and each person who signs up has to wait for a bit to able to give out invites. They give them out 20 at a time and the trouble is, there's no telling when they'll stop sending out free updates to cellphones ("free" being the reason we use the service!)

Okay, what we're trying to do has been explained already.
But I'll repeat again, and tell you, we're trying to create make use of a platform that already exists to implement a broadcast system for all students in class to get information regardless of whether they're in class or not.

It works like this:

I want to put out a message to the entire class regarding the exam dates :





I've typed it out and now, I post:




People get this message on their mobile phones as a text message, on Jaiku, or on IM. All this within 5 seconds of posting.



They think they have some information about this, so what do they do:



The comment gets put up online, people get text messages with the comment. And thus, we have updates on the issue coming in as fast as people can use T9. You can also use Google Talk to send in your comments! Just use the @reply system.

Simple, right?

Just ask Chandru (his email mohan.rockstheworld (at) gmail (dot) com)

I'll put up a post with information on how to set your mobile phone up to receive messages on Jaiku. All will be revealed in time.

Thank you ChanMan. You've been a great help.

Chandru is on Jaiku.

The Unofficial CMRISE2009 page in Jaiku.