Comments on: Hyvästi Jaiku

By: Conor O'Neill

Conor O'Neill — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:34:01 +0000

Notebook actually affects me more since I stopped using Jaiku many months ago. Does Evertnote have an iGoogle widget I wonder?

By: Tom A

Tom A — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:05:35 +0000

They’re stopping development of Notebook too, see:

http://googlenotebookblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/stopping-development-on-google-notebook.html

Good reasons not to put important data into ‘free’ data silos even with the big boys!

By: WillKnott.ie » Blog Archive » Smoke and ire

WillKnott.ie » Blog Archive » Smoke and ire — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:30:09 +0000

[...] users, Ms. Golez and Misters Neylon, Johnson, O’Neill and Phelan have all expressed their sorry to see it go. I’ll miss it [...]

By: Conor O'Neill

Conor O'Neill — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:20:21 +0000

I would previously have agreed with you but we also all heard that the plan was to integrate Jaiku with GTalk. So I’ll believe it when I see it, I guess.

By: John O'Shea

John O'Shea — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:24:58 +0000

I’m not sure I’d agree that Google don’t get social networks – I think their plan involves combining their gmail userbase with their opensocial platform, it’ll be interesting to see how that pans out.

I agree they have definitely missed out on microblogging boat (for now) though and they had such a good opportunity when they bought Jaiku. Perhaps the decision to rewrite (post-acquisition) at the expense of keeping the current product offering alive was the dumb/badly timed one…

By: Little Links - Thursday January 15th 2009 | Joe Scanlon

Little Links - Thursday January 15th 2009 | Joe Scanlon — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:39:52 +0000

[...] is gone gone [...]

By: RIP Jaiku : Alexia Golez

RIP Jaiku : Alexia Golez — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:04:57 +0000

[...] the teething pains of Twitter got so bad, we jumped to Jaiku. Like Conor puts it, it’s not about the software, it’s about the people. Engineering can only go so far [...]