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JaikuEngine Gets Open Sourced
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on Sun Mar 15, 2009 09:43 AM
from the free-and-clear dept.
from the free-and-clear dept.
volume4 writes "The switch has been flipped and Jaiku has been moved to App Engine. Google will no longer be developing Jaiku, so the code and the future of Jaiku is in the hands of the open source community. From the Jaiku blog: '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.'"
We discussed Google's purchase of Jaiku in 2007, and their subsequent decision to halt development a few months ago.
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Re:Slashdot users are fucking bastards (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot users are fucking bastards
your are more likely to have your penis stung by bees rather than getting laid.
Try to be more consistent, please
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WTF is Jaiku, you ask? (Score:5, Informative)
Let me just start this discussion off with a great big "Attaboy!" to our top-notch Slashdot editors.
For those of you not intimately related with all of Google's many acquisitions, etc. Jaiku is a microblogging and social-networking site. JaikuEngine is the underlying tech that makes it work. Seems to be written in Python. Designed to run on Google Apps.
There, was that so hard?
Re:WTF is Jaiku, you ask? (Score:5, Funny)
"Jaiku is a social networking, micro-blogging and lifestreaming service comparable to Twitter."
Making a statement like that, prior to 1995 or so, might have been grounds for commitment to a mental institution.
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Re:WTF is Jaiku, you ask? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not entirely convinced it shouldn't be now.
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Good lord, I must be old.
I've kind got social networking and micro-blogging figured out, but what the hell is lifestreaming?
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I've kind got social networking and micro-blogging figured out, but what the hell is lifestreaming?
Go to Google, type in "define:lifestream" or search for it, and things get even more confusing.
Did someone just make this term up and edit Wikipedia to reflect their intended definition?
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what the hell is lifestreaming?
6:33 AM: I woke up.
6:35 AM: I peed.
6:36 AM: I pooped.
6:38 AM: I'm taking a shower.
6:50 AM: I'm making coffee.
6:51 AM: I'm frying bacon.
6:52 AM: I'm making eggs.
6:53 AM: I'm eating breakfast.
7:01 AM: I'm getting dressed.
7:15 AM: I'm going to work.
and so on...
Re:WTF is Jaiku, you ask? (Score:5, Informative)
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My first reaction is that it sounds like Microsoft's Hailstorm (aka .Net My Services, aka "your wallet on the Internet"). Microsoft was positioning it to be the killer app for the .Net platform, but instead it died under a, err, hailstorm of withering criticism about Big Brother and the potential for abuse.
Google is starting to attract the type of fear and loathing once reserved for Microsoft in the '90s (and IBM in the '80s, AT&T in the '70s), so maybe they decided not to risk the PR hit they'd likely
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I get social networking, but what the fuck is microblogging? When is a blog a micro? Is there a minimum limit before somebody's blog is degraded in status, like Pluto?
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Typically, only 140 characters of text is allowed. That's microblogging (like sending out SMSs, but over the internet dude/ette).
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The more interesting property relates to subscription. Like RSS, you start receiving updates from contacts you've explicitly selected. Spam-proof, and highly conducive to emergent conversations. (If you're a Facebook user, this is kind of like the News Feed.) Here's another way to look at it: logging into your microblog is like joining an enormous IRC
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This is mainly the usual Slashdot editor laziness. But there's a certain mindset here that's pretty common online. It says that the world is divided between those who know WTF you're talking about and those that that you don't give a Foxtrot about. How many times have you gone to a web site that claims to be the authoritative source for information about the Regularized Blivitron Server, but doesn't have one word about what BVS is?
Ironically enough, there is one editor with a degree in journalism, so he pre
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Thanks, you that was exactly the part I wanted to know. Now I know, I no longer care :-)
Re:Google using MS strategies? (Score:4, Insightful)
Yeah, the "only" difference is people get to benefit from it. It is hugely preferable to Microsoft's buy-and-charge-outrageous-price or buy-and-discard-to-kill-competition models.
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free beer, free speech, free puppies (Score:2)
an example of Jaiku (Score:5, Funny)
Clouds hide Mt. Fuji;
But a crooked tree halfway
Class java.io.LineNumberInputStream extends java.io.FilterInpuStream has been deprecated!
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AHAHAHAHA!!!!
I have to actually post my laughing because I don't have mod points to give you.
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Re:an example of Jaiku (Score:5, Funny)
Jaiku Open Source
The poets now unemployed
What? Oh, never mind.
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Or you can use plain old PHP/MySQL based Laconica. (Score:2, Insightful)
Why continue development for an app that runs on a single platform when one can use an app that can run on any LAMP setup on the planet? [laconi.ca]
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Right! This needs to be upvoted.
Too late Jaiku (Score:2)
There is already an OSS platform for this, its called laconica, there is a public deployment on http://identi.ca/ [identi.ca]
Source isn't a verb (Score:2)
and therefore can't be past tense.
The headline should read: Jaiku's creators release it as open source.
That version also fixes the passive voice.
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I'd like to double-check that assertion. I just need to source a dictionary.
Social Networking 4 Little Guy? (Score:1)