Google Acquires Jaiku

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Google has mixed up the presence world with it’s acquisition of Jaiku. Jaiku is just like Twitter and both let you tell the world what you’re up to and listen to what the world is doing (the “world” being those users on Jaiku and those feeds you’ve asked to flow through Jaiku).

Official Google Blog: Reach out and message someone: “Technology has made staying in touch with your friends and family both easier and harder: living a fast-paced, on-the-go lifestyle is easier (and a lot of fun), but it’s more difficult to keep track of everyone when they’re running around at warp speed. That’s why we’re excited to announce that we’ve acquired Jaiku, a company that’s been hard at work developing useful and innovative applications for staying in touch with the people you care about most — regardless of whether you’re at a computer or on a mobile phone.”