JaikuEngine Gets Open Sourced

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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WTF is Jaiku, you ask?

[bobetov]

Let me just start this discussion off with a great big "Attaboy!" to our top-notch Slashdot editors.

For those of you not intimately related with all of Google's many acquisitions, etc. Jaiku is a microblogging and social-networking site. JaikuEngine is the underlying tech that makes it work. Seems to be written in Python. Designed to run on Google Apps.

There, was that so hard?

Re:WTF is Jaiku, you ask?

[jkajala]

Jaiku was originally mobile-only microblogging, as far as I remember. The web interface came later. The original client was developed for Nokia Series 60 (C++). Not sure about the server side, might have been Python. Also, the Google Apps integration came later, after the acquisition. One of the unique selling points (from Google's point of view) was (disclaimer: I'm guessing) how Jaiku enhanced S60 default Contacts list to presence.

Re:WTF is Jaiku, you ask?

[Anonymous Coward]

My first reaction is that it sounds like Microsoft's Hailstorm (aka .Net My Services, aka "your wallet on the Internet"). Microsoft was positioning it to be the killer app for the .Net platform, but instead it died under a, err, hailstorm of withering criticism about Big Brother and the potential for abuse.

Google is starting to attract the type of fear and loathing once reserved for Microsoft in the '90s (and IBM in the '80s, AT&T in the '70s), so maybe they decided not to risk the PR hit they'd likely have taken by pushing "Jailstorm".

Re:WTF is Jaiku, you ask?

[hey!]

"Jaiku is a social networking, micro-blogging and lifestreaming service comparable to Twitter."

Making a statement like that, prior to 1995 or so, might have been grounds for commitment to a mental institution.

Re:WTF is Jaiku, you ask?

[Infernal Device]

I'm not entirely convinced it shouldn't be now.

Re:Slashdot users are fucking bastards

[Tubal-Cain]

Slashdot users are fucking bastards

your are more likely to have your penis stung by bees rather than getting laid.

Try to be more consistent, please

Re:Google using MS strategies?

[whoop]

Yeah, the "only" difference is people get to benefit from it. It is hugely preferable to Microsoft's buy-and-charge-outrageous-price or buy-and-discard-to-kill-competition models.

an example of Jaiku

[Anonymous Coward]

Clouds hide Mt. Fuji;

But a crooked tree halfway

Class java.io.LineNumberInputStream extends java.io.FilterInpuStream has been deprecated!

Re:an example of Jaiku

[hawk]

Jaiku Open Source
The poets now unemployed
What? Oh, never mind.

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Or you can use plain old PHP/MySQL based Laconica.

[Glytch]

Why continue development for an app that runs on a single platform when one can use an app that can run on any LAMP setup on the planet?