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Re: Breaking: Google Acquires Jaiku, Why Not Twitter?

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Re: Breaking: Google Acquires Jaiku, Why Not Twitter?

craig — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:36:35 -0000

Anyone has invites to Zingku... would really appreciate one! I have some to Jaiku if wanted!!

morley.craig@gmail.com

Cheers

Re: Breaking: Google Acquires Jaiku, Why Not Twitter?

www.newportcitynews.com — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:04:24 -0000

Great site keep up the good work

Re: Breaking: Google Acquires Jaiku, Why Not Twitter?

Dave Delaney — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:39:50 -0000

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Re: Breaking: Google Acquires Jaiku, Why Not Twitter?

Andrea — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:23:26 -0000

Hello everyone!

This is a Jaiku episode preview. The entire episode will be online 15th Oct. 2007. Stay tuned!

http://media.vascellari.com...

Andrea

Re: Breaking: Google Acquires Jaiku, Why Not Twitter?

alexisbrion — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 05:43:06 -0000

From my point of view Google has made another good move as Jaiku seems to have a much more clear interface and, maybe, better chances to win European hearts. I would really like to test it! I wrote an article about Jaiku design: http://www.designvsart.com/...

Re: Breaking: Google Acquires Jaiku, Why Not Twitter?

Pete — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:45:45 -0000

I suspect it's more to do with:

a) Google Talk, or

b) The upcoming Google mobile OS

c) Possibly Google's aggregated "social streaming" plans (like Facebook feed)

Although there are plenty of synergies with various products.

Re: Breaking: Google Acquires Jaiku, Why Not Twitter?

Avatar — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:20:35 -0000

simple, i bet EV didn`t accepted the deal. there is a lot of history on what and how the enigmatic Blogger buyout contract worked back in the day.. i bet EV must have asked too much control and asked for too much conditions and google didn`t accepted on them..

Re: Breaking: Google Acquires Jaiku, Why Not Twitter?

Jeffro2pt0 — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:34:06 -0000

By the way, it looks like every member of Jaiku has 10 invites to give away to those that want them.

Re: Breaking: Google Acquires Jaiku, Why Not Twitter?

Adam Ostrow — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:08:45 -0000

Valleywag is rumoring $12M

Re: Breaking: Google Acquires Jaiku, Why Not Twitter?

Steven Finch — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:48:31 -0000

How come Google didnt purchase the leader in the market, Twitter, or the new kid on the block, Pownce??

Re: Breaking: Google Acquires Jaiku, Why Not Twitter?

Hans — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:35:21 -0000

Twitter doesn't do anything in the so-called â€œlifestreamingâ€ space. However, Jaiku does...

Re: Breaking: Google Acquires Jaiku, Why Not Twitter?

rabble — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:49:48 -0000

Google didn't buy Twitter because Twitter has a bunch of the ex google / blogger folks on the team and they clearly didn't want to go back to google. I suspect that the price of Twitter was steeper than jaiku.

Re: Breaking: Google Acquires Jaiku, Why Not Twitter?

phenom — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:37:00 -0000

how much did they pay ??
http://vidsonly.blogspot.com

Re: Breaking: Google Acquires Jaiku, Why Not Twitter?

Jeffro2pt0 — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:28:27 -0000

First off, congratulations Jyri EngestrÃ¶m and Petteri Koponen. Secondly, it looks like itâ€™s getting to the point where you canâ€™t use anything cool on the internet without Google somehow being involved. Thirdly, I canâ€™t wait to see the implementation of Google Adsense.

Re: Breaking: Google Acquires Jaiku, Why Not Twitter?

Adam Hirsch — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:17:01 -0000

$25 million ?

Re: Breaking: Google Acquires Jaiku, Why Not Twitter?

Adam Hirsch — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:15:31 -0000

Why can't Google buy Twitter also? Kill/Merge their competitor. Yahoo! is definitely a candidate if the price was right..

Re: Breaking: Google Acquires Jaiku, Why Not Twitter?

csven — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:56:15 -0000

I'm thinking Jaiku might make a nice IM client for Google Earth. And perhaps with location-based information channeled through it, the beginnings of an Unype-style multi-user avatar system starts to take shape.

Re: Breaking: Google Acquires Jaiku, Why Not Twitter?

Project — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:51:46 -0000

People who are saying that Jaiku is the same as Twitter have never used it. Google have clearly bought it for the mobile proximity/presence technology

Re: Breaking: Google Acquires Jaiku, Why Not Twitter?

me — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:43:53 -0000

Yeah, take a guess someone. :)

Re: Breaking: Google Acquires Jaiku, Why Not Twitter?

Pete — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:16:54 -0000

Or maybe: Twitter IPO!

[end bubble]

Re: Breaking: Google Acquires Jaiku, Why Not Twitter?

Pete — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:16:15 -0000

Exactly what I first thought. Abandon Dodgeball, buy Jaiku (which is fairly similar, imho).

So who buys Twitter now? Yahoo? Certainly, the Twitter demographic overlaps a lot with the Flickr demographic and the del.icio.us crowd.

Re: Breaking: Google Acquires Jaiku, Why Not Twitter?

Pete — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:58:32 -0000

Yeah, but we can play guess the price. ;)

How much funding did they have? Might wanna add that to the post (also a good indicator for potential price).

Re: Breaking: Google Acquires Jaiku, Why Not Twitter?

Adam Ostrow — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:51:37 -0000

Nope, not being disclosed according to Jaiku's Q&A about the deal.

Re: Breaking: Google Acquires Jaiku, Why Not Twitter?

Adam Ostrow — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:46:57 -0000

Maybe. With Google's obvious larger mobile plans, they can probably do a lot to increase adoption of Jaiku, which really is a very similar product to Twitter. And, Google likely saved a few bucks in the process (not that it matters too much as they near a $200B market cap ...).