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Re: Google Buys Jaiku

Joe D — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:53:52 -0000

I have 10 invites, anyone need em?

joe.dawley@gmail.com

Re: Google Buys Jaiku

Hien in Vancouver — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:34:12 -0000

Anyone with a invite, fire it over to ht.texture (at) gmail.com

Thanks!

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Daniel — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:32:55 -0000

And I just noticed that Seth Jayson over at Motley Fool is also not quite 'getting it'...

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Daniel — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:27:52 -0000

I don't know, Dave. I heard MS bought Dodgeball, and they couldn't necessarily figure out where the synergy was... And then Ballmer just jumped up and down, throwing balls everywhere, screaming very loudly.

Re: Google Buys Jaiku

Mark — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:16:51 -0000

I still have 4 invites left, folks :) So feel free to drop me a line, I don't mind.

Anyone else, pls add me! http://rokku.jaiku.com/

Re: Google Buys Jaiku

dave — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 06:03:37 -0000

"And now that Google acquired them â€” Iâ€™m sure weâ€™ll see additional development pop in some interesting ways."

Oh sure. That worked well with dodgeball, huh?
/sarcasm

Re: Google Buys Jaiku

Daniel — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:41:15 -0000

Adam,

That's not necessarily true. For example, Jaiku already has penetration in the WordPress community due to two plug-ins which use Jaiku's API. You can both display and post directly from or to Jaiku using those plug-ins.

Leo's 'Content Stream' in his right sidebar here on Life of Leo also makes use of the API (though, for some reason I can't see his Jaikus on my end). This is a Flash example of displaying your Jaikus through the API.

Search for WordPress plug-ins created by Douglas Karr, and Rick Measham -- both of which offer a great system. Rick's appears to support location, but Doug's supports Cache (which is a good thing).

And now that Google acquired them -- I'm sure we'll see additional development pop in some interesting ways.

Re: Google Buys Jaiku

lauren — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:04:15 -0000

Yeah.... I saw this earlier and was like "cool for them!" I still like Jaiku the best over twitter and pownce. I rarely post to pownce. I post to both twitter & jaiku @ once using imified (which I love) because it's not all the same contacts/friends in my case. Kudos to Jaiku on this google thing.

Re: Google Buys Jaiku

achernow — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:13:55 -0000

Man.. I haven't actually used my Jaiku in months... It was just getting too much to update everything and they still don't have a US shortcode like Twitter does.

Plus, it doesn't have the cool API apps like Twitter does.

-A

Re: Google Buys Jaiku

Dave from So Cal — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:09:38 -0000

@Michael - agreed about Twitter. Twitter took on a whole new life for me once I got my iPhone. Plus between Twitter's Mobile versions, its variants (Hahlo, Pockettweets, Thincloud, etc) and Twitterific on the desktop (for OSX) there are alot of options to sending 'Tweets. I rarely, if ever go to twitter.com.

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Larry — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:42:32 -0000

I signed up for Writely, and Google bought them. I signed up for GrandCentral, and Google bought them. I signed up for Jaiku, and Google bought them. I see a pattern developing here. If anyone has a web service that they'd like to sell to Google, let me know. I'd be happy to join up for a small commission. :-)

Re: Google Buys Jaiku

Michael — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:51:52 -0000

There are already rumors starting that Yahoo is going to buy Twitter now. Although I still think that Twitter is a better service, Jaiku would be much easier to monetize with Google Ads, there are more people that actually visit the website, with Twitter most people just use their phone, that's a little bit harder to monetize.

Re: Google Buys Jaiku

Mark — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:36:01 -0000

Hey Dave - just drop me an email, and I'll send one over (probably tomorrow morning).

Re: Google Buys Jaiku

Dave from So Cal — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:18:25 -0000

Wow. Wonder if this will have some integration w/ Orkut.

Hey Mark, if you don't mind... can I get one of those invites too? Thanks much

Re: Google Buys Jaiku

Mark — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:48:41 -0000

I have 10 invites if anyone wants 'em.

mark@losfer.com

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Anthony — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:43:43 -0000

Thanks David!

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Buffalodavid — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:43:30 -0000

Well, shut my mouth. Anthony, your invite is on the way.

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Buffalodavid — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:41:03 -0000

Anthony, its open, or at least it always was before.And I see nothing that says otherwise. I'll see you there.

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Cesar H Castro Jr — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:22:04 -0000

Oh man another bites the dust. Google will end up stripping it down, slapping the Google brand on it and add a huge banner ad on top of it.

On the brighter side it's really good news for the makers of Jaiku. CHA-Ching

Re: Google Buys Jaiku

Anthony — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:13:29 -0000

Anybody have a Jaiku invite? bosio76 gmail

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Pvw — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:12:07 -0000

Jaiku is on invite only. Could you invite me? Thanks

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kingkool68 — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:51:49 -0000

I knew you would be excited by this. Maybe I should check it out?

Re: Google Buys Jaiku

Matt Fowler — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:51:39 -0000

Given there's a native Jaiku client on Symbian Series60 (runs great on my N95), I would expect first-class integration on GPhone to be pretty much a sure thing.

Re: Google Buys Jaiku

Mark — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:48:33 -0000

I saw Jyri talk in London last week, such a smart, likeable guy. This is great news - let's hope Google is good to them!!