Jaiku
Jaiku is a social networking, micro-blogging and life streaming service. Jaiku was created in February 2006 and formed Jaiku Ltd. Jaiku is based in Helsinki. Jaiku founders came up with the name Jaiku because the posts on Jaiku resemble Japanese haiku. Also, the indigenous Sami people of Finland have traditionally shared stories by singing joiks. On January 14, 2009 it was announced that Google would be open-sourcing the Jaiku product. Jaiku can be run on your desktop utilising the feedalizr application built using the Adobe® AIR™ runtime environment.
Jaiku Client for Windows
The future of Jaiku might be uncertain but Jaiku users who still use the micro-blogging service will be happy to know that you are still able to update your activity stream and follow your friends with the feedalizr. The application allows you to update Jaiku on the following Windows operating systems: Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.
Jaiku on your Mac OS X Desktop
You are now able to run Jaiku on your Mac OS X desktop> with feedalizr: the social software client that rolls all the afore mentioned services into one Adobe® AIR™ application.
Jaiku Desktop Client for Linux
Looking for a Jaiku Desktop client for Linux? feedalizr is a Jaiku desktop client that runs on Adobe® AIR™. There is a version of Adobe® AIR™ (linux) available that enables you to use feedalizr as a Jaiku desktop application on Linux.