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Google killing Jaiku, Dodgeball, Notebook, other projects
Webware.com — ... the more powerful App Engine." Jaiku, as it is today, may live on with support from a "volunteer team" of Google employees, but the main product is getting ported to the Google App Engine, and will be release as open source. This is interesting. See also the open-source nanoblog project, Laconica. Google acquired Jaiku in October, 2007. The Google Code Blog covers the fates of Dodgeball, Jaiku, and the Mashup Editor. Other blogs (TechCrunch and Center Networks) are calling Grand Central and Knol as the ...

Google’s new years revolution: Six products slashed or maimed
VentureBeat — ... can monetize Google Reader, but unlike a service like YouTube, Reader probably doesn’t cost much for Google to run, and as long as it’s popular, it’s probably content to keep drawing users away from other RSS readers. Plus, I expect the service to launch some interesting things this year along the lines of the more social aspects its been working on with sharing feed items. In other words, I’m waiting on a “Most Shared” feature. TechCrunch’s Jason Kincaid throws out Knol and Grand Central as two other Google ...

Google downsizes, cuts Jaiku, Google Video, and more
Boy Genius Report — ... Contrary to popular belief, the mighty force that is the Google empire is not exactly recession proof. The company announced yesterday that it was laying off roughly 100 employees and making some pretty significant “alterations” to its product offerings. None of the major Google services (Gmail, Google Docs, etc) were affected, but a number of minor Google products have been relegated to a virtual death row sentence. Jaiku is being shifted to the Google App Engine, which essentially means that the company will cease any and all official support, though Jaiku ...

Google “didn’t care about Dodgeball” and confusion leads to many assuming Jaiku.com was shut down!
Josh Chandler — If a journalist could have written a more clearer article title then Rafe Needleman of CNET.com, then they would have only echoed the sentiment that “Jaiku is Closing Down!”,  however what Techcrunch.com and CNET.com failed to do was address the key difference between axed and simply carrying on without Google’s support. Jaiku.com and Dodgeball.com both purchased and owned by Google have endured some varied success. Jaiku itself has been in invite only beta since it’s purchase in October 2007 ...

SitePoint Podcast #7: Let’s Get Twitter Out of Our System
SitePoint — ... MP3 file. Here’s the link: SitePoint Podcast #7: Let’s Get Twitter Out of Our System (MP3, 29.3MB) Subscribe to the Podcast The SitePoint Podcast is on iTunes! Add the SitePoint Podcast to your iTunes player. Or, if you don’t use iTunes, you can subscribe to the feed directly. Episode Summary Here are the topics covered in this episode: Google Axes a Number of Services Google Axes Dodgeball, Jaiku, Video and More (TechCrunch) Changes for Jaiku and Farewell ...