Monday, September 8, 2008

Jaiku .. a part of the puzzle

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Over the past week or two reams has been written about the launch of Chrome by Google and the impending launch of the first Android handset. There is much speculation as to how the two fit together and how they can be used by Google to increase its influence on the mobile market. But very little if anything has been written about Jaiku. Jaiku is a Twitter like application and was bought by Google in 2007. It had seemingly been forgotten with little hype or development. But here is the kicker, its very strong in the mobile market with a great client that runs on most handsets. Until recently it was one of the most stable applications of its type and then some two weeks ago it moved into the Google datacentre environment… this has led to some recent instability but could this move be attributable to the pending release of the Android handset and Google’s wish to kit that unit out with the full range of Google Applications?

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