The online chatter today is buzzing around the announcement by Google that they are cutting back on several or their services – including Jaiku.
I’ve always preferred Jaiku’s web interface to that of Twitter, as Jaiku supports threading – ie. you can actually follow a “conversation” without losing your mind!
Seemingly Jaiku isn’t being fully shutdown, but it won’t be developed any more and is going open source
Maybe this is a good thing?
Bit of a shame that they’ve decided to kill Jaiku, though I very much thought it was the beginning of the end as soon they bought that service. And in anycase I’ve always preferred Twitter (and I don’t actually see much need for threading tbh).
At the same time, open source could be very interesting.
Michael
The threading makes it a lot easier to follow a conversation. If you’re using a desktop app for Twitter, such as Tweetdeck or Twhirl, you can get around some of the Twitter web interface limitations, however I’ve always found that Jaiku was a lot more intuitive for new users
Michele