March 14th, 2009
JaikuEngine released as open source project
Jaiku is a competing (well not really) service to Twitter — it’s not nearly as popular, and that’s the reason Google has decided to release it as an open source project for the community to develop.
JaikuEngine — the new open source project –is different from Jaiku in a couple of ways, but for the most part it’s identical.
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. — Jaikido Blog
JaikuEngine is likely the best open-source micro-blogging platform currently available, even though it’s pretty much locked into using Google App Engine at the moment. I would love to see someone port this to a LAMP environment — at that point, I’d expect adoption to be much higher.
Micro-blogging is becoming a very interesting space to watch over the next couple years — will this move by Google put any pressure on Twitter? I guess only time will tell.
Garett Rogers is employed as a programmer for iQmetrix, which specializes in retail management software for the wireless industry.
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