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Open Source Micro-blogging

I have to admit, I have never used Jaiku - Twitter is enough for me - but this news from DownloadSquad peeks my interest:

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 available to the public, anyone can set up their own version of Jaiku. And developers can help contribute to the project. It should be interesting to see how the project fares. While Twitter certainly dominates the micro-blogging space, it’s possible that the new open source nature of Jaiku will make it attractive to open source enthusiasts.

If you do something neat with this new open source micro-blogging platform, let me know :) I’m curious to see where this goes.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 at 7:27 am by Nicole C. Engard and is filed under Open Source, Social Networking. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Open Source Micro-blogging”

  1. Tim McMahon Says:
    March 24th, 2009 at 2:00 pm

    Have you tried Identica (http://identi.ca)? It runs on the open source micro-blogging platform Laconica (http://laconi.ca). It’s been around for a while and gets fairly heavy use. It will update Twitter and some people use it when Twitter’s down.

  2. MJ Ray Says:
    March 25th, 2009 at 10:51 am

    OpenMicroBlogging sites like identi.ca are where it’s at. Not only can it update Twitter directly, but through OMB it can update other sites like Facebook…

    Google is late to the party again, but I’m sure lots of people will think this invents FOSS microblogging.

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