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Is Twitter a Threat to Google?

By Mark Evans | Published: February 9, 2009

In recent years, one of the biggest questions within the high-tech world is whether anyone can knock Google off its perch as the king of search. Lots of start-ups are trying but few, if any, have been able to grab a viable foothold mostly because most people are happy with Google and unwilling to change. [...]

Posted in Services, Twitter | Also tagged search, Twitter | 6 Comments

Jaiku’s Not Dead; It’s Morphing

By Mark Evans | Published: January 17, 2009

To paraphrase Mark Twain, rumors of Jaiku’s death have been great exaggerated amid reports Google was turfing a bunch of services. Rather than going away, Jaiku is morphing itself into an open-source platform in which people can use the “Jaiku Engine” to create their own micro-blogging services. In some respects, it reminds me of identi.ca’s [...]

Posted in Microblogging | Also tagged identi.ca, jaiku, Microblogging | Leave a comment

Another Rival Bites the Dust

By Mark Evans | Published: January 15, 2009

Twitter’s competitors are disappearing. First, it was Pownce being acquired by Six Apart, and then closed down. Now, Google has decided to close Jaiku, which it acquired in 2007 to much acclaim. The move comes as Google attempts to reduce expenses, and involves the closure of several other services such as Dodgeball, Google Notebook and [...]

Posted in Microblogging, Twitter | Also tagged jaiku, Twitter | 5 Comments