Google Says Hello to Micro-blogging

Posted on October 9, 2007

If you float around in the micro-blogging world of Pownce, Twitter or Jaiku, you will most likely have heard today of the recent acquisition of Jaiku by Google. This news has my engines gunned, so much so that I wrote a short post on it at TechFires.com as well.

Now, before you think of me as one who just loves to jump on the bandwagon, you should know I don’t care that it was Google who did the purchase or that Jaiku was the one acquired. I have nothing against either entity, I’m just glad to hear of a major email provider snatching-up a micro-blogging solution such as Jaiku.

Google may change the name, tweak the features and do who knows what with the service. All of that is of little concern for me. What I’m most delighted about is the move towards mainstream micro-blogging. This one announcement sets off a new chain of events that will evolve our communication mores up yet another notch. Email, the all-in-compassing, run-your-life blob has got to be wrangled-in and limited to its most sublime functions. As I wrote in my recent post "13 Good Alternatives to Email", there are many great options to communication besides our over-used communication through email. Today is a landmark day.

So who gets dibs on Twitter? maybe Yahoo? What about Pownce? perhaps Microsoft? What do you think about this announcement? How significant is it for you?

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