Jaiku Re-launches as Open Source
Posted at 4:57pm EST on 03/14/2009
Jaiku is being relaunched as an open source server. “JaikuEngine differs from Jaiku in a few key ways. Although core features like the website, SMS (in the US only) and IM bot still work, feed fetching and international SMS are no longer available.”
Is this Google’s attempt to start trying to put some strain on Twitter? Eric Schmidt recently told the world that Twitter is a waste of time, worse, Twitter is poor man’s email. Schmidt boldly states that Google will not be buying Twitter, nor do I expect them to anytime soon.
The only monetization strategy for Google, if they were to buy Twitter, would be to plague the site with AdWords.
No, Jaiku is not trying to put a strain on Twitter. Jaiku is different than Twitter and the userbase is different. Google’s acquisition of Jaiku was a bad decision, but they’re trying to give back to the open source community with the acquisition now.
