Development on a shoestring - Latest Comments in Jaiku might just be going somewhere after all

Re: Jaiku might just be going somewhere after all

michaeltwofish — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:49:49 -0000

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.

Re: Jaiku might just be going somewhere after all

sampsa — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:07:30 -0000

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...

Re: Jaiku might just be going somewhere after all

michaeltwofish — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:03:57 -0000

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.