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Google Shake Up: Jaiku Sidelined, Moving On Twitter?

Source: /Message

Jan 15, 2009

Summary

Looks like Google orchestrated a major product line shakeup, and announced on a newsday when everyone might be looking the other way, with Carol Bartz taking the helm at Yahoo and Steve Jobs taking an 'extended leave of absence' at Apple.

Most interesting to me are the deadpooling of Dodgeball (I guess we all expected that after the founders quit and spit on Google as they walked out), the weird zombie status of Google Notebook (it's not dead, but no new signups?), and the transition of Twitter competitor Jaiku into open source (so anyone can roll their own microstreaming service... except Google?).

The last odd move raises questions about Google's aspirations for Twitter:

[from Google Ends Google Video Uploads, Shutters Notebook, Catalog Search, Dodgeball & Jaiku by Danny Sullivan]

Twitter competitor Pownce closed earlier last month. Facebook was reportedly interested in buying Twitter, but the company wasn’t interested in selling at that time, it was said. That probably leaves FriendFeed (founded by four former Googlers) as the closest Twitter competitor out th

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Comments (7)

Sggottlieb,

Jan 15, 2009

I just hope they have a decent migration plan from Notebook to Google Sites.

Hutch,

Jan 15, 2009

"This suggests to me that Google is *very* interested in acquiring Twitter, and I bet discussions are happening already. "

Svartling,

Jan 15, 2009

@hutch That would be awesome! I hope that will be true.

Sggottlieb,

Jan 15, 2009

@Svartling It may be awesome or it may not be. Google has an inconsistent record of incorporating and improving its acquisitions. Writely, Blogger, and JotSpot were done well. FeedBurner and GrandCentral stagnated. Who knows how Google will manage Twitter?