Goodbye Jaiku ?
This is incredible news
Jaiku is to shut down
Google has announced that it is shutting down Jaiku the twitter like service
“Google will release the Jaiku code under the open source Apache license, so that other organizations can pick up where the Google team left off. It is not clear if current users will be able to transfer their accounts”
I am blown away at this, I believed as did most Jaiku users that there was a masterplan up Google’s sleeve on this and that we were going to see a serious competitor to Twitter emerge especially since the Android operating system was released.
We have often had a little laugh at the green channel but I have friends who will be seriously upset at this.
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That sucks.
Yep. I’m one of them.
A very sad day indeed.
hey pat,
This is 1 sad news. I missed it yesterday and today this was a BIG SHOCK. Finally recession hits Google too.
I just hope Grandcentral goes on the way it is. I love Google services.
Yep, I’d expected to see Jaiku reemerge as part of a cunning plan involving Android
Still, the code’s being opensourced,; time for smart entrepreneurs to come up with their own cunning plans
This is most unexpected, I really tought that Google had a twitter destroying idea. Google must rate this type of project as low priority.
I agree with Will Rowan about the code been opensourced, this is an oppurtunity for someone else. It will be nice to see the nuts and bolts of how Jaiku works.
Not surprised. I’ve been giving Jaiku the Rush Hour treatment since the start of December last. Circa 5k in messages a day, thats all. Even identica is more popular (Whom I’m also monitoring) with 11K daily.
Sorry to see it go though, Google really wasted an opportunity there I think.
Very, very surprised. Was sure that Jaiku had been acquired for the “social phone” aspects that they did (which got a lot less attention than their twitter-like web presence). Expected this to turn up in Android etc.
Hmm. Can GrandCentral be far behind? A tad disappointing to say the least.
Wow, I had heard of but hadn’t used Jaiku – it does look like it could have been be real competition for Twitter- what a pity.
well pat, as they’d say in waterford “das fuckin bollocks, boy”.
Google have seriously doodoo’ed on the track here.
As yo and everyone expected, I was waiting to see some super service that Googla were going to release.
Well, at least the current incarnation is not going to be switched off (or so they say).
So, currently active users will be preserved in a little coocoon, since its *still* invite only.
I can’t see them opening it up to more users if they are not developing it.
The only good thing I can see coming from this is, companies, individuals will get their chance to run instances of Jaiku.
This may be good news, as we (in NSN) have been trying to get an internal presence tool for internal communications.
I would like to be able to go to the internal people and say, hea, install this Jaiku service, and we can have proper internal real-time comms.
This will put, the pretty useless and terribly expensive, Yammer to the wall, no?
Anyway, a sad day when Google don’t see Jaiku as a useful service.
Maybe Google are on the way down?
Been using Jaiku for conversation and Twitter for minutiae for ages. Looks like I’ll be limited to minutiae now…
Weird. Jaiku gone means Grand Central soon. The communications angle is probably just one step too far beyond the Applications focus they need to take right now. The real, real question now, is can Google go after Mobile Advertising ? or will the “default to google” work just as well, from any device? Given the lack of traction in Social Network advertising, I am betting on the latter, now.
I think it would be interesting to take the code when it’s open sourced and look at plugging the microblogging component into the Twitter API to bring some of the Twittersphere free-flow to the threaded flow of Jaiku.