JaikuEngine Gets Open Sourced

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday March 15, 2009 @02:43AM from the free-and-clear dept.

volume4 writes "The switch has been flipped and Jaiku has been moved to App Engine. Google will no longer be developing Jaiku, so the code and the future of Jaiku is in the hands of the open source community. From the Jaiku blog: 'Today, we are open sourcing the Jaiku code base under the Apache License 2.0. The code is available as JaikuEngine on Google Code Project Hosting as of now. Anyone can set up and run their own JaikuEngine instance on Google App Engine.'" We discussed Google's purchase of Jaiku in 2007, and their subsequent decision to halt development a few months ago.

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Re:WTF is Jaiku, you ask? by wondershit · 2009-03-15 03:06 · Score: 0, Redundant

Wasn't so hard looking up the Wikipedia article for Jaiku either...
Re:WTF is Jaiku, you ask? by Reality+Master+101 · 2009-03-15 03:08 · Score: 0, Redundant

That was exactly what I was going to post (down to the "WTF is Jaiku"), except you told me barely more than the original summary.
According to Wikipedia, "Jaiku is a social networking, micro-blogging and lifestreaming service comparable to Twitter."

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Re:an example of Jaiku by Ma8thew · 2009-03-15 08:22 · Score: 0, Redundant

Obviously laughing hard enough not to notice the GP is Anonymous Coward.