Jaiku announced yesterday that they will support SMS to the US only. Jaiku was down for more than 24 hours because they were converting the software to an open-source version called JaikuEngine.

They will also stop feed-fetching which was a nice feature that created a Facebook like mini-feed (or FriendFeed like) on the users' homepage to follow the activities of your friends on other sites.

In short, Jaiku now is going to be pretty useless.

The announcement on the Jaikido blog says that they switched off the SMS updates because of financial reasons.

Update: Jaiku will no longer be invitation only and registration will be free for anyone.

wraping up took down the huge flag and the green thingy that is supposed to represent judges sash security cars gathering one broke we helped push it

cairo slowly waking and we can feel her yawn and as lovers we hover over her face turned evey twitch waiting for the magical moment when she smiles at us

Slowly waking up a very cold night hyper active elements already chanting

__Alaa__ is sending SMS messages to this blog from the judges sit-in [more details|http://www.manalaa.net/live_blogging_from_the_sit_in] and [here|http://www.manalaa.net/judges_sit_in].

__UPDATE__ I finished my phone credit and I am adding the SMSs manually.

__UPDATE__ Photos from the sit in [here|http://egyptoz.blogspot.com/2006/03/pics-of-nice-sit-in-tahrir-square.html], [here|http://www.foolab.org/image/tid/127], [here|http://wa7damasrya.blogspot.com/2006/03/blog-post_16.html] and [here|http://home.manalaa.net/cgi-bin/share_photos.cgi?photos/politics/judges_sit_in_march_2006/]

__UPDATE__ SMSs in [one page|http://mostafa.foolab.org/node/232]