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Jaiku, the Twitter-like micro-blogging service from Finland has been acquired by Google. Here’s an excerpt of the statement posted by Jaiku on their homepage:
Jaiku is joining Google. While it’s too soon to comment on specific plans, we look forward to working with our new friends at Google over the coming months to expand in ways we hope you’ll find interesting and useful. Our engineers are excited to be working together and enthusiastic developers lead to great innovation. We look forward to accomplishing great things together. In order to focus on innovation instead of scaling, we have decided to close new user sign-ups for now.
Like always, new signups on Jaiku have been temporarily frozen. Terms of the deal or Google’s plans for Jaiku have not been disclosed.
It’s quite a shocker that Google didn’t consider Twitter or Pownce. While Jaiku’s user base is very small, it is technologically superior to its rivals. Jaiku has a powerful Nokia S60 based mobile application which can automatically broadcast your presence based on your profile and availability. Jaiku’s biggest plus point is its mobile community, which not only has its presence on the web, but also mobile devices.
With the acquisition of Jaiku, Google officially joins the activity streaming or microblogging bandwagon. Jaiku’s cofounder, Jyri Engeström, worked with Nokia before launching Jaiku.com. He should probably be a major asset to Google in building the highly rumored Google Phone.
Jaiku’s acquisition is being direct compared with Dodgeball, a mobile social networking service acquired by Google in May 2005. Dodgeball, however, didn’t go through any success with Google. Founders of Dodgeball then quit Google to work on other projects.
[Via: TechCrunch]
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wrote, on October 13th, 2007
Oh, wow, surprise. I bet Google did try to acquire Twitter instead, or maybe they didn’t want to upset the fan base. in fact it was probably a smarter move to go with Jaiku; they don’t want to convert the users to Google-ites, they want to work with, expand, and consume a new service. People probably won’t even remember the word Jaiku, it’ll become Google Status or something, and that’s what they want. They don’t want people to think of it as the thing that used to be Twitter, they want people to think of it as the thing Google acquired and improved on.
wrote, on October 13th, 2007
Brendan: I agree with you. That’s exactly what they did with Blogger, and now the same is happening with Jaiku? or maybe they just want to kill it like Dodgeball? Who knows… ?
I really like your name “Google Status”