Create your own Jaiku with Google Code, wow great, why not just sure Google Connect or whatever its called. Jaiku.com as a site will die as the core community are all leaving. I commented on this before Christmas saying I'd noticed less posts on Jaiku and more on Twitter from the same people!
Okay rolling one's own Jaiku has a number of benefits but to me the big and rather wonderful thing here is that given Jaiku is being maintained out of love open-sourcing it will most likely lead to further innovation and from the community rather than leaving it all to a few.
Maybe I'm fanning the flames, its just I loved jaiku from the 1st time I used it and it got me totaly hooked on social networking, but I'm just disappointed in this announcement as I was full expecting Google to take Jaiku onboard, but they have just throuwn it away by saying let the community develop it.
@gerrymoth I don't see Google as having thrown it away at all. I think from a business perspective it's potentially a very smart move. There are a huge number of microblogging services in the market now. They are costly to develop and maintain especially as the space is not well defined; by that I mean no one really knows what exactly people want and need out of such a service.
So the problem facing Google is do they spend vast amounts on what is essentially a research project or let the community undertake the research allowing the service to grow organically to meet needs.
I know which way I would go.
Community driven projects have a long track record of success. Google runs a huge amount of their service on open-source platforms, the majority of web servers are still open-source based.
Does this mean Jaiku will survive as a service - who knows. I certainly hope so as it had such great potential. But more to the point I firmly believe that by allowing everyone to see underneath the hoods will lead to better, more robust and more timely set of micro-blogging and aggregation services in months/years to come.
i think its great, as long as it takes up. now, supposing everything opens p a bit, we can start incorporating jaiku seriously into seminars, meetups, websites etc.
13 comments so far
no you're not :)
10 months, 3 weeks ago by cybette
No you're not. I'm ready to scream if I see even one more line along the lines "Jaiku is dead".
10 months, 3 weeks ago by myrtti
People just love drama.
10 months, 3 weeks ago by virbana
Create your own Jaiku with Google Code, wow great, why not just sure Google Connect or whatever its called. Jaiku.com as a site will die as the core community are all leaving. I commented on this before Christmas saying I'd noticed less posts on Jaiku and more on Twitter from the same people!
10 months, 3 weeks ago by gerrymoth
Okay rolling one's own Jaiku has a number of benefits but to me the big and rather wonderful thing here is that given Jaiku is being maintained out of love open-sourcing it will most likely lead to further innovation and from the community rather than leaving it all to a few.
This is massive people.
10 months, 3 weeks ago by barneyc
@gerrymoth: how can you be so sure the domain name and the site is going to die?
10 months, 3 weeks ago by myrtti
An Open Source code base for Jaiku is something we could use for a corporate communications tool.
10 months, 3 weeks ago by topgold
Maybe I'm fanning the flames, its just I loved jaiku from the 1st time I used it and it got me totaly hooked on social networking, but I'm just disappointed in this announcement as I was full expecting Google to take Jaiku onboard, but they have just throuwn it away by saying let the community develop it.
10 months, 3 weeks ago by gerrymoth
@barneyc You're not the only one. Google could have killed it. Instead they're giving it back to us
10 months, 3 weeks ago by FyreFiend
@gerrymoth I don't see Google as having thrown it away at all. I think from a business perspective it's potentially a very smart move. There are a huge number of microblogging services in the market now. They are costly to develop and maintain especially as the space is not well defined; by that I mean no one really knows what exactly people want and need out of such a service.
So the problem facing Google is do they spend vast amounts on what is essentially a research project or let the community undertake the research allowing the service to grow organically to meet needs.
I know which way I would go.
Community driven projects have a long track record of success. Google runs a huge amount of their service on open-source platforms, the majority of web servers are still open-source based.
Does this mean Jaiku will survive as a service - who knows. I certainly hope so as it had such great potential. But more to the point I firmly believe that by allowing everyone to see underneath the hoods will lead to better, more robust and more timely set of micro-blogging and aggregation services in months/years to come.
10 months, 3 weeks ago by barneyc
uau! what can happen while one sleeps!
my POV is that the jaiku system is way better then identica (but misses something like identispy [former tracku], and #hashtags)
10 months, 3 weeks ago by BUGabundo
i think its great, as long as it takes up. now, supposing everything opens p a bit, we can start incorporating jaiku seriously into seminars, meetups, websites etc.
10 months, 3 weeks ago by mokka
we just need now a bunch of users/devs that are willing to set up a PAE with the code and maintained it for/with the community
10 months, 3 weeks ago by BUGabundo