Comments on: Goodbye Jaiku ?

By: James Gallagher

James Gallagher — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:36:58 +0000

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.

By: WillKnott.ie » Blog Archive » Smoke and ire

WillKnott.ie » Blog Archive » Smoke and ire — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:30:13 +0000

[...] users, Ms. Golez and Misters Neylon, Johnson, O’Neill and Phelan have all expressed their sorry to see it go. I’ll miss it [...]

By: PaulSweeney

PaulSweeney — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:58:06 +0000

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.

By: Zach

Zach — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:41:14 +0000

Been using Jaiku for conversation and Twitter for minutiae for ages. Looks like I’ll be limited to minutiae now…

By: Little Links - Thursday January 15th 2009 | Joe Scanlon

Little Links - Thursday January 15th 2009 | Joe Scanlon — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:40:16 +0000

[...] Jaiku is gone gone gone. [...]

By: bernard

bernard — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:29:29 +0000

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?

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:53:30 +0000

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.

By: Sean O Sullivan

Sean O Sullivan — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:51:58 +0000

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.

By: AJ

AJ — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:51:19 +0000

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.

By: Mark Cahill

Mark Cahill — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:44:29 +0000

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.