I just finished moderating a panel with Chris Messina and Jyri Engeström about emerging social behavior on the web at the Next09 conference in Hamburg, and I got the chance to speak with both of them separately afterwards and recorded part of the conversations on video. The first one I’m featuring is the short talk I had with Engeström, the Finnish entrepreneur who left his senior product manager position at Nokia in 2006 to co-found one of the first micro-publishing services, Jaiku.
The micro-sharing application was launched the same year in private beta and became somewhat of a competitor to Twitter (which was nowhere near as popular as it is nowadays) and Pownce (which never really took off and was ultimately put out of its misery by Six Apart). Jaiku was famously acquired by Google at the end of 2007 before it hit mainstream success and has since often been cited as one of the search engine company’s infamous zombie acquisitions, with little or no further development happening on the service since the takeover and the original founders moving on to doing other things on the company’s payroll.
Then Google discontinued a number of services in the beginning of this year, and Jaiku was widely reported to be one of the axed products, but Engeström swiftly responded to those reports with a blog post saying that Jaiku wasn’t dying but instead morphing (into an open-source platform for building micro-publishing services on Google App Engine).
Engeström talks about what he’s currently involved with at Google and what the further plans with the Jaiku technology are.
(sorry about the occasional sound glitches)
Interesting
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Dodgeball, Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce and friendfeed should be considered the independent originators in social messaging even if they are linked by several base concepts.
From dodgeball you got brightkite, fire eagle and now giving a full circle forusquare.
However it was also half the inspiration for Twitter.
Twitter has generated several in line clone services around the world but the cut out clones have never actually catch on.
Twitter yet managed to inspire jaiku.
Jaiku has been one of the greatest innovators in social messaging and it comes from both the inspiration of twitter and dodgeball.
yet generated several line in line services like identi.ca/laconi.ca and of course Plurk that is now the biggest derivation out of jaiku and the most bold one.
Pownce inspiration came from dodgeball,twitter, jaiku and tumblr and leah and co managed to do something actually unique even if managed terribly.
The only derivations of pownce are Rejaw (now closing soon) and kwippy
Friendfeed grabs inspirations from all the mentioned players plus gmail and greader because of the creator pedigree and does its own thing. so far i have not seen a true derivation to friendfeed.
But the point is that these 5 services have been the great innovators and they are the reason for social messaging extremely fast evolution and cross pollination with Social Media and Social Networks.
Then i guess it is too complicated and wishful to try to serve all this information and it is best to put everything in the same box without actual context so carry on.