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Jaiku might just be going somewhere after all

Started by Glenn Slaven · 5 months ago

I just received an SMS from the Jaiku bot saying that their SMS service was back up & operational.  I’ve sent a post via the SMS bot and it is working, so it would seem that maybe Google hasn’t completely abandoned the service after all.  This would be good. I liked Jaiku when it [...] ... Continue reading »

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  • michaeltwofish

    5 months ago

    I've been using Jaiku in preference to Twitter for a couple of weeks now and have enjoyed it overall. Development doesn't seem very rapid, and communication with users hasn't been great, but Google are currently porting it to App Engine. I get the feeling that things will start moving soon.
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  • sampsa

    5 months ago

    I met Teemu from Jaiku-team recently on a Meetku in Helsinki. He told that Jyri, him and the rest of the team can only contribute to Jaiku related work for 20% of their office hours. Apparently they are working on something else - like Android?

    However I've also a feeling that something new will be launched quite soon. It has been so quiet...
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  • michaeltwofish

    5 months ago

    If the Jaiku team are only using their 20% (which all Googlers get to work on whatever they want) that means that Jaiku is not seen as very important by Google. Of course, lots of things started as 20% projects, so that's not necessarily terrible but it's not great for Jaiku either.
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