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Google acquired the Twitter-like application in 2007, but immediately closed it to the public. Last August it came back with unlimited invites, and now finally has been the JaikuEnginehas been handed over to the open source community.
Jaikido blog last week, "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." The new JaikuEngine will also include support for OAuth, the open standard authentication protocol that Twitter recently began experimenting with in an effort to give users more control
Jyri Engeström, co-founder of Jaiku and now a product manager at Google, said that it's time to break out of Twitter. "There should be lots of platforms, and they should talk to each other. Jaiku doesn't do that yet, but now there's a decent chance that it soon will," he wrote on his blog.
Twitter has made rapidl progress in the last few months and is gaining market share, the real time information sharing has been finding favour with individuals and companies alike. It will be interesting to see how Jaiku fares with the competition.
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