Google Buys Jaiku OMG

Ted / 09.Oct.2007

Google bought Jaiku. News flash: nobody fucking cares except Scoble & Arrington.

Call your Mom. Your sisters, your brothers, your cousins. They'll ask you why you're wasting money on a long distance call to tell them this.

Chances are, Jaiku will end up forgotten, just like Dodgeball. Good, it's the first step to wiping this shit off my internet.

Cheers to the Jaiku people, though. Someone's got to make a buck off this crap.

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12 Comments

WTF is next in this acquisition frenzy? I Can Has Cheezburger? LOLWUT that!

mike cane / 09.Oct.2007 at 03:12pm

Good stuff.. Google should buy uncov next.

anonymous / 09.Oct.2007 at 03:15pm

Oh Ted, still bitter that Google didn't offer you a job after that internship? Good luck with Persai's big IPO. LOL, YOU RULZ!

thed / 09.Oct.2007 at 04:06pm

Dude, thats so Facebook baby.

oz / 09.Oct.2007 at 04:33pm

I'm sure Leo Laporte cares. I mean his twittercism is the only reason most people know what the hell Jaiku is. I'm going with Anil on this one http://twitter.com/anildash/statuses/323186052

eliot / 09.Oct.2007 at 05:52pm

Don't you know, Google will buy the internet next. Ooh wait, they already own that. Damn. E.

evert bopp / 09.Oct.2007 at 06:10pm

If a tree falls... I mean, if Jaiku is bought out by Google, but there is no one around to give a shit, does it make a sound?

casey / 09.Oct.2007 at 07:31pm

wait, so it's like twitter with icons?

mike / 10.Oct.2007 at 11:07am

Well... there goes Twitter's exit strategy. Looks like they're going to have to figure out how to make money now.

aaronontheweb / 10.Oct.2007 at 01:34pm

How does Google make money besides AdWords? I dont know of any product from google which I can rely on a 100%. All they have is BETA for everything!! How does Jaiku help Google's bottom line?

echarcha / 10.Oct.2007 at 04:27pm

Twitter was first to the market, therefore having the most reliably larger base of users. Twitter has nothing to worry about.

arik / 12.Oct.2007 at 05:58pm

The dark secret is Google is buying up the crap that SOUNDS good at first glance to keep it from distracting from genuinely good things, of which Google makes few.

noah / 15.Oct.2007 at 03:35pm

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