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It rarely happens when you hear that Google acquires something and it ends up biting dust; but the case has been quite different with Jaiku. Ever since its acquisition by Google the service has been put aside and neglected for overtime the service has primarily become useless.
MG Siegler reports of Jaiku getting a CPR to breathe life into it. The site presently reads a pretty hopeful message that the service might very well come back to life:
Folks, we’re offline for the weekend for server maintenance. Now’s a good time to talk to someone you love.
The downtime might very well come as a signal that Google might be moving Jaiku to its App Engine that is capable off running various applications simultaneously. If this is so, we might very well see the long dead service become reliable once again for the countless users.
Siegler hints at Jaiku enabling its users to use Google accounts in order to access the service and might very well pen registration for new users; which by now must be under rubbles owing to the negligence since its acquisition by Google.
With services like FriendFeed and Twitter set firmly as rulers in the arena; users must have thought of Jaiku making it bi once it had Google attached to it but the miserable failure (let’s forget for what reasons) has led users away from the service and it will have to offer quite a lot to win the favor of its ‘pre-historic’ users.
I would still keep my cards to myself and not get excited at throwing Jaiku’s chances to stand up to the bin and it’s purely because it has Google backing it up with investment etc. A bit of alterations in the layout and services Jaiku provides might very well help it to reclaim what it has lost over time; to be sort speed up its recovery.
