Things have been quiet over at Jaiku since its acquisition by Google last Fall. People worried that Google may have ruined Twitter’s most formidable competitor by requiring the Finnish startup to labor away for months integrating its service into Google’s technology stack instead of rolling out new features. All the while, new signups have been disabled and invitations limited, which has cut the service off from a healthy stream of new users.
But now we’re seeing some signs of life. Jaiku has moved its software over to a Google data center and has given its existing users an unlimited number of invites to send their friends.
The new data center isn’t Jaiku’s final resting place, merely a step towards running things on Google App Engine. However, it’s an important one for a company that appears to be preparing itself first and foremost for scalability (a problem that notoriously has plagued Twitter).
As VentureBeat points out, Jaiku has also introduced a new terms of service and privacy policy, so it’s getting its legal house in order as well.
Are you a Jaiku member? Share some of your unlimited invitations with outsiders over at InviteShare.
They spent all this time and money on making the site “scaleable” and yet they have NO USERS! A puny small server in someone’s basement could serve enough pages these guys are serving now.
Google and their “rewriting after acquisition” is idiotic and has killed so many products. Now Jaiku is their latest victim.
You could not agree with you more.
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Jaiku didn’t let me in yet
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Hey, Shawn! I’m really interested in your website! Thanks for posting it!
Bleghh.
You should try http://www.yocial.com then.
How about grandcentral? When will we get *some* invites back? What is the hold up?
I’m betting that Google will open up Grandcentral as a kicker when first Android phone goes to market.
Also, I’ve switched to Identi.ca for my status update needs.
http://identi.ca
Open Source SaaS FTW!
I don’t have “status update needs”…sounds like a disease. I’m too old for shameless, self-promotion. Grandcentral is totally different in its offering and I want to spread it.
Forget identi.ca… Plurk is by far a better “timeline” for status updates. Of course, with ping.fm, who really needs just one service when they can just as easilly use them all. *shrug*
if anyone have jaiku invitation, send me one please ;(
my e-mail is gagahput3ra [at] gmail.com
Any invitations will be insanely appreciated.
sent…
I have twitter, yahoo, hotmail how many apps i need for messaging… well thats the beauty of social networking… its like a cult.. if you form it you will find followers.
@gagahput3ra just send !
Wow, thanks a lot! more than five people send me invites. This is so exciting
Jaiku might’ve had a chance back when it was just Twitter vs Pownce vs Jaiku, but now…?
Christ, there’s like a million different microblogging services now, and unless Jaiku has some heavy integration with the other Google services they might as well stay in invite-only mode forever.
The one time I was interested in Jaiku, I couldn’t get an invite. Now, 8 months later, I’m supposed to be excited that an invite-only service is still invite-only, with almost nobody on it?
On the other hand, I like the name Jaiku.
So I guess it really evens out in the end.
Do you realize that only jaiku and twitter have done their sms implementation correctly, and that is why they are the best in the space?
Twitter is “cute” and i think that is appealing to many, but we shall see in the end.
No reason jaiku should fail, I predict a winner or a very sad state at google.
Did you guys just figure out that hearing Arrington and Calacanis talk pimping their own conference is totally boring?
I’d like an invite please.
Google is probably being extra cautious given the growing pains Twitter has experienced over the last year or so.
I would like to get an invite too. I’ve requested one at inviteshare
I’ve been looking for invite for a while.
It won’t be long and everything will be mobile….I mean everything!
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I’ll distribute some out at inviteshare…. Otherwise, email me for your invite. captbunzo at gmail /dott/ com
Where is Steve Gillmore ?
I miss his obsessive and so useless Twitter ruminations so much.
“Gillmore” [sic] does not use twitter’s service, he uses identi.ca
he does use the word “twitter” to describe certain services that have behavioral similarities and / or synergies to twitter
However, it is not always clear to the slower people wtf he means b/c he invents meanings for words without any admission, though they have separate meanings in mainstream terminology
Jaiku’s advantages, being on the titanic Google platform, should give it an excellent chance of prevailing in the end ( http://www.seek...missive.EAf8a0G )
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off subject!
Is Weebly currently down?
4:04PM PST
Mike,
Seriously. Strip HTML out of comments already.
There are suddenly too many social networking platform nowadays. Is it less hectic to focus to only one or maybe two?
While I’m glad Jaiku is back up, the downtime before this lasted almost a week. Jaiku has always been up when twitter was down, but a week of downtime is a LOT…
I do prefer the jaiku interface to twitter tho.
Meh, I tried to join Jaiku and they wouldn’t give me an invite
actually if anyone fancies sending me one it’s savamaloy (at) gmail (dot) com!
hey, just sent u one…
Please send an invite to bosoxxrwd (at) yahoo.com would really appreciate it thank you
can someone send me an invite too please??
i would really appreciate it 
my mail address is el_barrows@yahoo.com
thanks in advance
If anyone has invites for jaiku, would appreciate a lot if I could get one. Thanks in advance. My email address is gabbar_dce@yahoo.com
Ryan, eb, sk: Sent.
Please send an Jaiku invite to sldima (at) gmail dot com I would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance.