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Yesterday I wrote about Plurk as an alternative to Twitter. Another microblogging alternative worth checking out is Jaiku. Jaiku was recently bought by Google and only a few days ago Google released the Jaikuengine that is running Jaiku as open source).

In other words you can now, relatively effortless, start your own alternative to Twitter. I guess we are going to see quite a few of them shortly.

But, even if you don’t want to run your own micro-blogging service, Jaiku, is a good alternative to Twitter.

Since Jaiku is now owned by Google it will be interesting to see if posts on Jaiku will be integrated into the Google search-engine especially since Twitter started their own search engine. The Twitter engine is actually the first real threat to Google in a long while and it will be interesting to see how they are going to monetize their service.

So how do Jaiku compare to Twitter?

If you have used IRC at all you know about channels. A channel is like a feed centered on a shared subject. You can join already created channels that you find interesting and you can create your own channels.

Just like twitter, Jaiku, has good mobile support. Jaiku was developed in Finland, the land of Nokia, and I would say their mobile support is even better than Twitter.

I have not been very active on Jaiku myself but its not a bad service and well worth to check out. When I get the time, if ever, I will give it a chance.

I will however make sure to stay updated on what Google is going to do with this one.

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