Silicon Alley's take on the Google acquisition of Jaiku...

For those of you still hating on Twitter (ACOM) and thinking that the mini-blogging "Status" space hasn't gone mainstream, please read this article at Silicon Alley:

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Here are the four main points, without the commentary from the article:
1) "Status" space has now gone mainstream.
2) Twitter is still by far the dominant brand.
3) Twitter's value just soared. (dollar value)
4) Twitter's competition just increased exponentially, so the company had better skedaddle.

So, hopefully if Google gets moving with Jaiku, we should see more integration with external sites in both Jaiku and Twitter, and maybe even Pownce (which the article also mentions and I still have invites to). Also note the great use of the word skedaddle...

I feel even more vindicated about using Twitter....haters....

Google bought Jaiku...

LINK TO BLOG POST ABOUT ACQUISITION

Why is this important?
This may change my opinion on mini-blogging sites. I haven't done a comparison of the major mini-blogging sites in this blog (Twitter, Pownce, Tumbler, Jaiku), but I am signed up for all four of them and have been trying them out. Here's an article with a side by side comparison.

I did have a post on how everyone should use Twitter. You can even follow villager with wheel on Twitter.

But, I love Google. I try to use everything Google. I am a Google fanboy (as if that wasn't obvious by my last two statements). I don't care that they have and will have years of info on me.

So, now I have to seriously consider Jaiku as my main mini-blogging tool.
But, I have feeds from my favorite blogs in Twitter. I can automatically update my facebook status via Twitter. There are Twitter Firefox extensions (TwitterFox, TwitBin). There are many other uses and tools...

There are ways to update all four of the previously mentioned mini-blogging sites, example in this LINK, but Twitter is the key to making that happen.


I actually saw the news about Google buying Jaiku in my Twitter feed...how ironic...Google is complicating my life....I am perplexed...

Hopefully, this isn't an acquisition that Google ignores. They could seriously blow Twitter away with some key integration to gmail, gcal, gtalk, etc...


P.S. Sorry for the link overload.

The problem with music today...

Is apparently being solved by Rick Rubin. If you've never heard of Rick Rubin, you've probably never listened to music.

Anyway, I was trying to catch up on some of my feeds and came across this post from the blog
A VC. It highlights an article recently written about Rick Rubin being made the co-President of Columbia Records.

Points I liked from the article:
Kids mostly steal music but don't consider it stealing.
MySpace is over.
Facebook is cool now but probably over soon.

I think it all leads the way to Twitter, Pownce, and similar social networking sites. If you aren't aware of these sites, I have a post in the works that I will hopefully complete soon.

Here's a link to the original article:
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