Jaiku may be about to emerge from its Google-imposed black hole. The site is closed for server maintenance, leading some, including Venture Beat to speculate that it’s about ready to re-emerge in a newly rejuvenated, more stable form.
Since Google bought Jaiku in October, the service has been only a lackluster rival to the more popular–but equally unstable–Twitter. Jaiku-focused blog Jaiku Invites says that’s all about to change. Google is moving Jaiku to Google’s App Engine platform. As a result, Jaiku Invites says to expect the following:
“Well the number one thing we can expect is near 100% reliable service, no more down time for the API or the IM bot and the last of the 502 Bird. The next thing is open registrations for all, whether that will come in the form of a Google account or Jaiku account remains to be seen yet but I would safely say that we will see Jaiku and Google accounts merged into one in the near future. And finally we will hopefully see the launch of some new features and maybe even the public release of the current updated beta S60 client. I’ve also heard that a lesser featured iPhone client may on the horizon too.
But could it be too little too late? Twitter seems to be on the way to solving its stability problems and now Facebook has started a similar status updating service. The market’s getting crowded. It will be interesting to see if–and how fast–Jaiku makes its moves.
