Jaiku better come up with nothing short of a miracle
Aug 27th, 2008 @ 16:49Setting up our nest in a new datacenter, after finding an issue with a server on Friday. Sorry for the inconvenience. We're working to get back online soon.
That is what Jaiku.com has to say at the moment.
So what is Jaiku? Or what was Jaiku before it went down?
Jaiku is a microblogging service - basically like Twitter but with the functionality of commenting (below a micro post) and native support for adding feeds to your stream.
But all that hasn't been working since Thursday/Friday last week (today is Wednesday!) when Jaiku.com simply said that the service was closed to a server upgrade.
Now the reason is another: »an issue with a server«
Needless to say that this is no small issue — and needless to say that Jaiku will suffer bad from this. Jaiku has soon been down a week and that's a long, long time.
Ironically, a lot of Jaiku's problem started after the service got acquired by Google. Then it was announced that it would be one of the first projects to switch go the Google App Engine.
But that doesn't appear to have made things a whole lot better.
Fact is: Google and Jaiku have to resurface with nothing short of a miracle. Jaiku just can't return to its normal service and expect forgiveness from the users. And fact is, that while Jaiku is down, people are switching to Twitter.
One wonders whether they will come back again.
Related postsTags: Google, Jaiku, Microblogging, Social web, Twitter, Web 2.0
August 27th, 2008 at 23:35
Maybe people should try out Pownce. It has a lot of the functionality of Jaiku, like commenting.
I have a user there, but haven't used it for a long time.
August 28th, 2008 at 14:01
Yeah, or maybe FriendFeed. It gives that conversation feel to Twitter posts…
// Lars