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I have been searching around for Jaiku invitations on and off for a while and finally I came across a site that seems to be made for me If you want to try a twitter like site that is owned by Google then you should head over to http://jaikuinvites.com/ and get your invite.

In the world that we live in with twitter and other such micro-blogging services, I am really curious to see Google’s take on it. In my experience Google likes to keep things simple by offering a clean/clutter free space. This seems to be no different so far.

Once I am past the touchy feely part of the site I am curious how it will stand up to the main service, Twitter. They seem to have all the people on their site and Google isn’t helping matters much by keeping Jaiku closed for a long time, and now invite only.

But as mentioned above, you guys don’t have to worry about that because I found http://jaikuinvites.com/. Have fun and tell your friends about it. I am curious to know what everyone things. Send me a note, post a reply here and add me to your twitter and now Jaiku (both TheSleepyGeek).

If you are Canadian like I am then this sucks! I am sure that this is not the fault of Twitter but the fault of the wireless providers in Canada. To be completely honest they all are pretty bad up here. In a statement release on their site they explain the reason is due to cost.

Unexpected changes in our billing have forced us into a difficult situation with our Canadian SMS service. We can’t afford to support this service given our current arrangement with our providers (where costs have been doubling for the past several months.) As a result, effective today we are no longer delivering outbound SMS over our Canadian shortcode (21212).

The ability to update Twitter over SMS will still be supported over 21212. But we know that this is only part of the experience and we want to make Twitter work in the way folks want … regardless of where they live.

There is a realistic, scalable SMS solution for Canada (and the rest of the world.) We’re working on that and will post more details on the Twitter blog as we make progress.

I hope that they are successful at finding a better solution. Until then I actually will have to get on my computer to look at twitter. DOH!

Have fun, and Happy Tweeting!

• Bedtime, good night twit world! #

• Good morning twitter world. Today I am going to try and install OSX on a non-Mac. This is just for sport! #
• AAckkk, can’t get my wordpress to automatically update plurk.
  I just want to get my word out there as far as possible. #
• @Veronica Are ugly guys telling you that you are pretty again? Only you feel what you feel! #
• Listening to the Hip! Blow at High Dough, now Boots or Hearts. Come on all ye Cunucks! #
• Time to head home from work. Lots of things to do tonight before leaving on vacation on Saturday! #

I have been working with Mark Bockenstedt who has created a Plurk updater based on a similar updater used for Twitter. Mark used the Twitter updater as a base and then updated it with a PlurkAPI allowing him to send post information to Plurk.

This is a great idea in my opinion. People are starting to use Plurk more and more, if you want to get your word out there then this is another good way of letting the world know that you are working on something.

Mark put up this updater on his website on July 3rd and I didn’t notice it right away but when I installed it there was some trouble. It looks like there are some class definitions that are shared with other plug ins so I had class conflict errors. I left a comment on his blog post and he got back to me within minutes. We worked together to determine that there was another Twitter updater needing that class and then he told me how to fix it. About 10 changes to his files and it’s installed.

So now you can read about my posts on Plurk if you are not a Twitter fan.

Go check out this plug in if you are a Wordpress blogger.

• Had a good evening last night with my dad and family. It was his b-day. Then went for a late night swim with my wife. Pool was an awesome 80 #
• Does anyone else feel like this is the @chrisbrogan network? Chris, how do you have so much time for twitter? Keep it up #
• @chrispirillo ummm, no… no she can’t #
• Getting a Tim Horton’s coffee. They are too good! #

• Best Suzuki online dealer? www.brownspoint.com from NJ. Being from Canada that sucks but that’s not their fault #
• @tekknikk Where are you? #
• Watching Lewis Black on youtube. He’s so funny! #
• I agree. Pardon for George Bush? wow. #

• Why is it impossible to find Suzuki marine parts? I need it faster than online can give me. #

• On my way to the cottage for a weekend of family fun. #
• At the cottage this weekend. Took a look around at some articles this morning. You all have a good day. I am heading out on the boat #

• @Scobleizer How is the even useful. Shed some light on it so I can too be a twitter entrepreneur Isn’t too many updates unmanageable? #
• Yay, I can tweet again. Hi everyone! #
• Time to hit the hay. Did some hardcore chatting over at live.pirillo.com and now it’s 12:40am. Tomorrow is going to SUCK! Night all. #
• Just had amazing lunch on a work friend’s boat with some other friends. What an amazing day for it. Weather this weekend is going to be A1! #