Jive.ly – One Man Builds His Own Twitter

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Mike Butcher is a journalist, broadcaster and commentator. He is firstly editor of TechCrunch Europe, but has also co-founded TechHub.com and Coadec.com in Europe as ventures to support the tech startup eco-system. A long time journalist, Mike has written for UK national newspapers and magazines including The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The New Statesman.... → Learn More

Jive.ly is a new app in full beta, billing itself as a Twitter-like site for mobile. Created by UK-based developer Martin Buhr, the app is designed as a place to update your social network accounts with images and videos from a mobile. But since it has it’s own Twitter-like ‘follow’ model it’s therefore another attempt – probably doomed – to take on the site at its own game. But then again, Twitter doesn’t do MMS or auto-embed content from Youtube, Vimeo and Flickr from posted links and synchronise with your Twitter and Tumblr accounts.

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