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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 approach [...]
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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 Google Catalogu. At [...]
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