Jaiku Goes Open Source

by Jordan Yerman | March 16, 2009 at 11:00 am

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Jaiku, the presence-streaming service acquired by Google last year while still in beta and subsequently left on the back burner, is getting its code moved to open-source.

This will likely spur development, if only from those still waiting for their beta-test passwords (i.e. me). Currently, Jaiku shares the same 140-character input limit as Twitter, but lacks the latter's user-interface features, at least for now.

Yesterday, we flipped the switch and moved Jaiku to App Engine. Today, we are open sourcing the Jaiku code base under the Apache License 2.0. The code is available as JaikuEngine on Google Code Project Hosting as of now. Anyone can set up and run their own JaikuEngine instance on Google App Engine.

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