A nice interview with the jaiku folks:

and they mention jaikuBerry!

JaikuBerry 0.8 is out. Changes are:

• Added more keyboard shortcuts, and documented them on the “About” screen, so people have a chance of knowing what they are. Less scroll-wheeling needed.
• Some internal code refactoring, getting ready for the time when jaiku enables posting comments via the API
• Incorporated the new “entry_title” property in the JSON feeds, so that comments no longer redundantly say who the comment was from. Now it says (Re: blah…) rather than (Comment from RichardTodd on blah..) after the comment
• Worked around a bug in the jaiku feeds, where I have to manually build the url for comments, on items that are pulled in from feeds. This is because the “URL” listed for these items is the url of the external item, rather than the jaiku post about the item.
• Still tastes great, and is less filling.

I have gotten a lot more users lately, and the comments have been generally positive. I’ve learned more than I ever wanted to know about various mobile phone providers, trying to help you all successfully configure your phones for jaikuBerry. In all but one case, we were able to work together to make it work on your phones. I only know of one instance where the user would rather just give up than try to troubleshoot the problem. So, good!

I think I’ve said this on each of the last few releases, but I really think this is all I can do until more API features from jaiku are released. People have asked for the avatar pics, but I’m not interested in that feature. It takes up screen space, and takes time to download. I like a light-weight interface for mobile connections. Maybe 3G (or 4G) (or phones with wi-fi) will change my mind, but I don’t have any of those right now. One person would like it to pull location data from GPS, and I think that’d be awesome, but I don’t have a GPS-enabled phone to develop it with. If anyone wants to work on that feature, I’d love to help get it into jaikuBerry.

This is, I think, the limit of what I can do until more API features are released. It can be installed OTA or downloaded for installation with the Desktop Manager from the JaikuBerry page

New in this version:

• View the public jakus stream (the “explore page”)
• View your contacts list (great for browsing to channels that you aren’t subscribed to, etc)
• View other people’s contacts list (for more directed exploring than the public jaikus stream)

From the contacts lists, you can browse to that user’s jaikus. It’s begging for features like “add/remove contacts”, and these will be added once the jaiku API supports it.

If you only just jaikuBerry for posting, then this upgrade won’t mean much to you. That part of the product is unchanged.

[EDIT: in response to a user request, I issued 0.7.2, with one more new feature. It allows you to store up to 5 locations in your settings. Then, you can select from your locations quickly on the posting screen.]

New version… it’s now on its own permanent page: here!. This is also where the download and OTA install links are.

Mainly this version fixes a bug, and enhances your ability to browse jaikus. You can now go to a view of any post that includes all its comments. Or if you are on a comment, it will take you to the parent post with all the comments. It keeps a “stack” of screens like a web browser, so pressing ESC takes you “back” one page. Very convenient!

As API updates roll in (like, ability to Add/Remove contacts and feeds, and ability to comment on a post), they will make their way into future versions.