In order to render these items in the timeline, though, they must be posted without any accompanying text. Rejaw also sports a few media integration tricks, such as in-line rendering of direct-linked images and YouTube videos. Still, it's nice to have that extra room for the times when it's needed, and while SMS integration lowers the barrier to entry for other services and makes them more ubiquitous, 140 character limits are getting quite long in the tooth. This creates more room for longer, blog-style posts, but in our use of this just-launched service, we noticed that most people are sticking to a few short sentences at most.
Note to future web startups: don't make the same mistakes your predecessors haven't learned from-official clients and an API is a great way to hit the ground running.įree from the thought-claustrophobia that SMS induces, Rejaw text posts enjoy a higher limit of 1,000 characters. This allows developers on any platform to build their own client right away.
LINGR CAUSE ITS SO NICE WINDOWS
Official clients for Windows and the iPhone are forthcoming, but Rejaw was smart and prepared what sounds like a fairly functional API for its launch as well.
LINGR CAUSE ITS SO NICE MAC OS X
While similar services like Twitter and Jaiku are limited to 140 characters to remain friendly to SMS worldwide, Rejaw eschewed text messaging and went with a web client and (surprisingly) a Mac OS X desktop app for its launch (bonus points for not taking the Adobe AIR shortcut). True to the nature of these streamlined services, it's easy to hit the ground running with "shouts," or in other words: short text-based thoughts, links, images, and other shareable items. Signing up for Rejaw is about as simple as it gets, and the option of OpenID is a welcome perk. Rejaw, just launched this week, describes itself as "a new way to chat with your friends, family, and coworkers." Combining short, Twitter-like messages with instant updates via custom push technology, Rejaw may have hit the sweet spot at the intersection of dead-simple, web-based microblogging and conversation. No, we aren't going to let you take a break from checking out new social-status services especially not when a new one is bringing something actually interesting to the table.
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