Comments on: Google’s Jaiku vs. Twitter?

By: Google and Social Media. «

Google and Social Media. « — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:22:33 +0000

[...] here:Unofficial Google (Google Operating System) Techcrunch Scobleizer’s Jaiku vs Twitter social media [...]

By: Milt Hinton

Milt Hinton — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:54:58 +0000

testing comments infrastructure…

By: Wil Tan (MojiPage)

Wil Tan (MojiPage) — Thu, 29 May 2008 22:29:05 +0000

Interestingly, the conversation in FF is split over quite a few different threads – which is a known problem in FF.

By: Dario Salvelli

Dario Salvelli — Thu, 29 May 2008 09:58:05 +0000

Ehi Rob, do u see this? http://status.twitter.com/

By: Ron K Jeffries

Ron K Jeffries — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:01:11 +0000

Jaiku was ahead of Twitter by at least 12 months. The current rumor is that when Googel completes converting Jaiku to run on AppEngine, it will be relaunched.

JaikuNext (my term) may also work really well with Android.

By: Bernie Goldbach

Bernie Goldbach — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:34:54 +0000

It’s really difficult forcing Twitter into a hole cut by Jaiku. The two services have many different wrinkles. For starters, Jaiku actually works in your pocket if you run it on a Series 60 third edition Nokia phone. Twitter doesn’t even have a back button that works but it has plenty of cross-talk so it seems alive and even helpful in a lazyweb way.

I can cut time between telephone tag sessions when my workgroup all uses Jaiku’s client because their phones tell me where they are and whether they’re available. That functionality was never designed into FriendFeed or Twitter and perhaps never should be.

Jaiku had a team of network engineers bought out by Google. You might see their handiwork in Android but from the feel of Jaiku at the moment, only the hardcore complement still hang out and chat in Jaikustan. For many looking in from the outside, it must look like a tumbleweed town. But that kind of signal-to-noise works best for me.