Tag: MICRO-BLOGGING

Google has released the source code for micro-blogging service Jaiku. The company announced earlier this year that it would cease development of Jaiku. But instead of shutting Jaiku down altogether, Google has moved the project so that it now runs on Google App Engine. Meanwhile, now that JaikuEngine is avialable to the public, anyone can set up their own version of Jaiku. And developers can ...

If your Twitter home page is filled with messages from friends linking out to other web sites where you can watch a video, read and article, or listen to a song, Blip might be for you. While Twitter is 100% text based, people tend to use the micro-blogging service to share links to multimedia files. Blip, on the other hand, is a micro-blogging service with an integrated music search engine and ...

If Twitter and all its buzz in the web community can be considered its own growing world of sorts, then Leo Laporte - one of the service's foremost users according to Twitterholic - just sent ripples through its oceans by announcing his decision to move to Jaiku, a similar service that seems to have longer legs and quite a few more features. Since this was the first we've heard about Jaiku, we ...