Google Buys Jaiku, a Twitter Competitor

Google announced this morning the acquisition of Jaiku, a messaging service not unlike Twitter. Like Twitter, you write a very short message and send it to all your friends or specific friends, but Jaiku also has an application for a very limited number of mobile phones and a better looking interface.
It has been pointed out before that Twitter was created by a number of guys who worked at Google (on Blogger) and left after being dissapointed with the experience of working there. While Google could have had Twitter if it had encouraged their creativity, hopefully it will be happy with what it gets from Jaiku. Twitter is an extremely basic service that is built more on its API than the actual website, so perhaps a Google-backed Jaiku can develop in ways Twitter has not.
In the meantime, where are the integration points? Jaiku could be used as […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg