Jaiku News

Google Jaiku Open Sourced To Combat Twitter

19th March 2009

For almost a year now, Google has been in the process of porting Jaiku over to Google App Engine. The process is now complete, and the new JaikuEngine has been launched on Google Code, as an open source project that they hope will turn into a Twitter competitor. More »

Google Radio Ads Off The Airwaves

17th February 2009

Susan Wojcicki, Google V.P. of Product Management announced last week that they will shortly be discontinuing two of their services: Google Audio Ads and Google Radio Automation. More »

Google Downsizes

16th January 2009

There is some bad news for the IT industry in general, and for Google employees in particular. It looks as though the recession is beginning to catch up with the search giant. More »

Google Acquires Social Site Jaiku

9th October 2007

Jaiku is a social networking site that competes directly with Twitter. It allows users to share their activity streams – logs of everyday things as they happen – using web feeds. Jaiku activity streams can be shared via the Web, instant messaging and on mobile phones via SMS. More »