<![CDATA[Google buys Twitter rival Jaiku - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Google buys Twitter rival Jaiku - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Google buys Twitter rival Jaiku]]> Jaiku is "Address Book 2.0" (something Tim O'Reilly apparently groks) and their closest competitor is probably Plazes, not Twitter. Jaiku just happens to *include* Twitter-like microblogging, and because everyone has the hots for Twitter, they tend to overlook its rather more mature cousin from abroad.

I would hope that this acquisition means Google realised that Jaiku is actually what they were looking for in Dodgeball. If the founders do find Google not to be what they were hoping for, at least they'll have the cash to try again-providing they haven't been completely demoralised.

PS: What's with the faux em-dashes? You sending posts by telegraph or something?

jacob

]]> <![CDATA[Google buys Twitter rival Jaiku]]> @gregorsamsa1977: Fine, fine, fine.

Owen Thomas

]]> <![CDATA[Google buys Twitter rival Jaiku]]> in case anyone is keeping track, it was a year ago today that google announced the youtube acquisition. maybe this will become an annual thing?

stanfordboy

]]> <![CDATA[Google buys Twitter rival Jaiku]]> Calling Jaiku a "twitter knock-off" is a very very stupid thing. Isn't this what FSJ calls "DENTONING"?

gregorsamsa1977

]]> <![CDATA[Google buys Twitter rival Jaiku]]> Just for the record (and no, I had no interest in Jaiku), I made the same Twitter knock-off comment about Jaiku upon joining the service, and Tim O'Reilly (and others) pointed out that Jaiku was actually older than Twitter.

Jeff Clavier

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