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  • The End of Jaiku?

    Posted on Jan. 9, 2008 at 18:38 +0100 Tagged with , ,

    ars technica today had an article about a whole lot of people leaving the locked down Jaiku and moving over to Twitter because of the instability of the service and missing contact with the developers. It's just funny because Michael and I were just talking about what happened to Jaiku right before I read this article :-)

    Right when I first heard about Jaiku, I really liked it esp. because of the whole channel idea which simply made it more than just a Twitter-clone, but after Google bought them and made the whole service invite-only, nothing really happened there anymore, as far as I can tell. No new post on the blog, not a single message on the jaiku-feed. It's really sad :-( I guess sometimes now being bought by Google is a good thing.

    Update: Seems like the folks over at Jaiku are still allive :-)

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  • Google Apps for your domain?

    Posted on Dec. 8, 2007 at 15:23 +0100 Tagged with , ,

    For about a week Dreamhost's e-mail forwarding to gmail addresses was down. I don't really care who was really responsible for this (to me it seems like Google caused it) made me look around for an alternative solution for domain-related email addresses and I stumbled upon Google's domain apps.

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  • Jaiku acquired by Google

    Posted on Oct. 9, 2007 at 18:47 +0200 Tagged with ,

    Now this is strange. I would have expected Nokia to buy them, but Google? Perhaps Twitter was not for sale, although I also didn't notice that Jaiku was. Anyway, it seems like this is one of those acquisitions where the buyer more or less locks the site down to integrate it completely into its own infrastructure (Writely anyone?).

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  • Combined view done right

    Posted on July 2, 2007 at 00:19 +0200 Tagged with , , ,

    When NetNewsWire 3.0 got released, one of the most prominent new features was the combined view which basically gives you a combination of the list and the detailed view ... think: Weblog ;-) Yesterday I finally gave it a try (normally being a fan of the classic view) and came out with some mixed feelings.

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  • Google acquires x, Yahoo acquires y, ...

    Posted on Oct. 12, 2006 at 23:37 +0200 Tagged with , ,

    Note: These are just my humble observations and opinions and are not really backed up by any kind of empirical analysis.

    It's strange. Two companies of the size of Yahoo and Google, and still two completely two different approaches on acquisitions. Remember when Yahoo bought Flickr in March 2005? Not that few people thought, the giant would squash the community photo site and imprint itself deeply into it. But what has happened so far? From what I can tell, all I see as a user is a different login system. Even less happened with the social bookmarking service del.icio.us which they acquired last December.

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  • Disabling Trackback

    Posted on Oct. 10, 2006 at 12:44 +0200 Tagged with , , , , ,

    Just a small note: I've just disable trackback for now (and probably for some time) because I'm simply not motivated to moderate the about 200 spam posts I get every single day. As a replacement I will add hopefully sometime this week a small section where all the links pointing to a post or the whole site will be listed (based on search results on Technorati and probably also google and yahoo).

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  • Writely send invitations and Google Analytics goes public

    Posted on Aug. 17, 2006 at 10:25 +0200 Tagged with , , ,

    Seems like a big release day for Google. First they announced, that Google Analytics is now open to the public (so no invitation required anymore) and this morning I then receive a mail from Writely saying, that I can now finally get an account there :D Writely still seems to be invite only, but at least it appears that they are finally giving them out again ;-)

    I guess I will now finally give Google Analytics a try and see how it hold up against Performancing Metrics. I still think it's strange, though, that Google has set some limitations for the free Analytics accounts ...

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  • Google offering project hosting

    Posted on July 28, 2006 at 09:15 +0200 Tagged with , , , ,

    The first thing I read this morning, was Marshall Kirkpatrick's post on TechCrunch informing the world about Google's new idea of becoming a SourceForge competitor. Since I'm one of those people who experienced quite a lot of problems with SourceForge in the past, I went over there and created a small project (mainly for testing purpose) right away.

    The registration of a project is very straight forward. First of all you need to have a Google account (GMail or whatever). After you've logged in, simply hit the "Create a new project" link, give your project a name, short description, description and license (tags are optional) and you're done.

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  • Google launches PicasaWeb

    Posted on June 15, 2006 at 17:49 +0200 Tagged with , ,

    Google yesterday launched PicasaWeb, basically a web frontend for Picasa. But are they really after Flickr? Well, judging from how you have to upload your photos there, I somehow doubt that. As far as I've seen on their website you have to use Picasa to upload photos, an application that is only available for Windows.

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