Ken Camp has sworn off Twitter for a week. Too slow, too buggy. But he's not too enamoured of the alternatives he's selected, either. Facebook and Jaiku have issues as well.
Facebook mobile sucks, he writes. Yup. m.facebook.com is such a small subset that it's barely useful, and it makes you jump through extreme hoops to get the utility. Surprisingly, though, the SMS interface provides a lot of value. For me, a handful of people can send their updates to SMS, and I get all wall postings and emails the same way. That's enough.
And the apps, yeah… most don't work that well yet. I put it down to people rushing to get them out. Some, like iLike, are pretty good. Most aren't.
Unlike Ken, I gave up on Jaiku as well. Lots of potential, not enough users.
It's going to be interesting to hear what Ken has to say in seven days time.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
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Have you tried the Indian site chittr. I have an account there and it works k.
I too have an account at chittr, and it works quite well on SMS