Kik Blog

There was a significant BBM push that I recall last year[1]. I'd always heard great things about BBM, but it requires everyone to have a blackberry, no? That won't work in a diverse ecosystem; iPhone's Facetime is another example. These are standard features, not "killer" nor innovative features. Text messaging is the standard. Anything else can be had in an app (e.g. Kik Messenger [2]) that is at least cross platform. [1] https://www.google.ca/search?q=blackberry+bbm+ads [2] http://kik.com/

I've heard Kik (http://www.kik.com/ works great.

> Facebook and WhatsApp are much bigger players with massive infrastructure that Whisper Systems doesn't have. even kik (http://www.kik.com/) works without google play services, and it has no massive infrastructure. but even then, it makes no sense to say that chatsecure is secure and client side encrypted, when it NEEDS, and BUILDS ON closed source software of (one of) the largest data collector companies in the world.

Like the others said, this is written by Kik Interactive (http://kik.com/) which is well-funded. The idea is that Kik's browser has the PhoneGap-like utilities that you described built-in, while this is a library for building the UI of an application. http://dev.kik.com/

>Nobody can possibly think it is a good idea to use someone's API to create a product that directly competes with the API providers' paid offering. I thought as much. If they allow it, then great, but you're asking for trouble. The cross-platform messaging app Kik was pulled from Blackberry App World for similar reasons: http://www.kik.com/blog/2010/11/rim-blackberry-kik/ Edit: Added 'App World' clarification.

What part of "Free real-time texting for all" and then a picture of an iPhone, Android, and Blackberry doesn't perfectly explain what this app is? http://www.kik.com/

Evidently the episode you listened to was loaded with false information, because Kik has used PhotoDNA to scan for CSAM for 7 years. [1] [1] https://www.kik.com/blog/using-microsofts-photodna-to-protect-kik-user…

Pretty sweet! Looks like an easy way to get $5k to me: http://kik.com/dev/contest.php

Now it becomes all apparent why BlackBerry was so heavy handed with Kik Messenger: http://kik.com/blog/2010/12/a-sad-day-in-waterloo

Don’t forget Kik (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1935093) and the arbitrary way RIM may decide to not only take your app down, but sue you (http://www.kik.com/blog/2010/12/a-sad-day-in-waterloo/), to boot.

I would suspect that as well or by counting relationships instead of actual accounts. Let's ask them: http://www.kik.com/blog/2010/11/zero-to-a-million-in-15-days/#comment-…

According to https://www.kik.com/terms-of-service, they seem to have chosen jurisdiction in Canada: "Kik Interactive Inc. is located in Canada at 420 Weber Street East, Unit I, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 4E7." According to the article, "The Securities and Exchange Commission today sued Kik Interactive Inc", without clarifying in what jurisdiction they are suing them. It is about "the sale of one trillion digital tokens". It is therefore about the exchange of KIN tokens against other tokens such as BTC, ETH, USDT, or similar. The KIN token is traded on 10+ different non-jurisdictional exchange platforms: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/kin/#markets The American SEC cannot reasonably claim jurisdiction over the non-jurisdictional Ethereum platform, nor over any non-jurisdictional exchange platforms, because in that case, every country could do that too. If every country can do that, then no country can do that. Why? Well, in that case, KIK could trivially seek protection in North Korea or Russia, and prevent US enforcement by shielding under their nuclear umbrella. Concerning KIK's marketing communications, it is not clear who exactly can regulate such messages: the country of message origination or the country of message destination. We cannot allow US government departments to grab control over non-jurisdictional issues. That is absolutely not in the interest of international users. Therefore, it is necessary to encourage geopolitical adversaries of the USA to…

Well, the "asynchronous" and sent-delivered-read notifications are cool, but what I'm really excited about is this: "Here’s where things get interesting. If it can build its community, Kik has a lot of new territory to cover if it wants to. It can layer on functionality as it sees fit. For example, it can let you take pictures, and show friends what you’re seeing. It can then let you stream the music you’re listening to, directly from your phone over your friend’s phone. The same can be done for video. And it can be done over any device. While none of this is available right now with the app, Livingston demonstrated this advanced streaming technology to me, so it’s clear he can turn it on at pretty much any time. During the demo of all this, we sat hundreds of miles away from each other, but he was able to remotely take over the Chrome browser (with my permission, of course) on my MacBook. He then played music over it — all while remotely operating this from his phone. All I did was enter a code that he gave me so that my browser knew to pair with the phone and allow the stream. (A QR code can be used, too.) It’s pretty cool. Basically, Kik’s technology lets you wirelessly “sling” any content on your phone to any device running on any software. This hasn’t been done before, as far as I know. Sure, AppleTV lets you stream iTunes content to the TV, but it’s a closed garden. You can’t run Apple content on other devices. Kik’s technology allows you to stream pretty much any…