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Jaiku

If Twitter likens its service to the twittering tweets of a bird, then Jaiku likens its own to, well, haiku. Not that Jaiku is an exact replica of Twitter, though. You can not only micro/nano-blog, you can also add other online presences of yours: blog feeds, Flickr photos, del.icio.us bookmarks, or anything else that carries a feed. (Twitter included!)

Why do Web 2.0 sites have a fondness for Japanese-sounding words?

Score 9/65; Formula: Bastardized Foreign Word (haiku); Circle No.: 2, The Metaphor; Qwerky Rival: Twitter; Qwerky Blog Name: The Jaikido Blog

Twitter

Brevity is the soul of (T)WIT(ter):

Jack gave our acceptance speech which went exactly like this, “We’d like to thank you in 140 characters or less. And we just did!”

That’s at the SXSW Web Awards 2007, where Twitter easily won.

Everyone and anyone who’s a blogger should stop whining right this instant about people stalking their blogs. You signed up for MySpace, you have at least one IM screen name, and you might as well podcast or vlog. Twitter takes stalking to the next level. And throws productivity out the window every time you update your sorta’, kinda’ blog about what you’re doing or thinking at the moment. In 140 characters or less.

It feels like Twitter’s going to be the biggest thing since Flickr in terms of “cuteness” and explosion of 3rd-party tools, except that somebody thought of photo-sharing before Flickr did, while Twitter is the first of its kind. Maybe because it’s nine parts silly, 1 part possibly productive.

If YouTube brought about microconsumption of videos, then this is bite-sized vanity blogging.

Score 9/66; Formula: Sound FX (Twitter messages are called Tweets); Circle No.: 2, The Metaphor; Coined Words: Microblogging, Nanoblogging; Biggest Tag in Cloud: nonstop

Fauxto

You’d think online photo editing software are nothing compared to the top guns of Adobe, Corel, and Open Source. You obviously haven’t met Fauxto. It’s got a rich interface with the help of Flash and if you weren’t keen enough you’d think it was the online Photoshop program Adobe has announced.

There’s nothing “fake” about being able to edit “faux”-tos and more—all online. It’s possible now.

Score 9/66; Formula: Bastardized English (faux, photo); Circle No.: 3, The Pseudo-Abstract; Qwerky Rival: PXN8

Google, DoubleClick, $3.1 Billion.

Guess which bought which. Easy.

Qwerky Redesign!

Here’s a new look for Qwerky after more than a year of blogging about weird Web 2.0 names. Come to think of it, I didn’t exactly celebrate this blog’s first anniversary (which is January 14th), unlike what I did with Stellify.net.

Some statistics according to the archives page:

There are currently 99 posts and 199 comments, contained within 3 categories.

I know the colors are loud, but I’m a fan of the combination and I’m glad I found a place to use it. The 2.0 denotes “version 2.0″ and, of course, “Web 2.0″! Hope you like it. If you have any comments or suggestions, let me know!