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Last summer, while Twitter was struggling to keep its servers running consistently, a number of rivaling microblogging services like Plurk and Rejaw arrived on the scene, ready to capitalize on

Microblogging has become a very popular way for people to share news and information or even live-blog events in real time, but if you have ever tried to search through

Brion Vibber, CTO of Wikimedia and lead developer for Wikipedia and MediaWiki, announced today that he's leaving the company to work for StatusNet (formerly Laconica) as their chief architect. StatusNet

While taking questions yesterday about alleged violation of anti-trust laws, Google execs including CEO Eric Schmidt reportedly told press that the company is, in the words of Reuters scribe Alexei

Analyst firm Gartner has just released its latest Hype Cycle white paper, detailing some of the biggest trends in technology this year. According to the report, cloud computing, e-books and

We just got word of an interesting new microblogging service: Rejaw. Rejaw is an interesting combination of microblogging with real-time chat. In some ways, it is similar to Plurk and

When we first reported about the new microblogging service Identi.ca  earlier this month, it looked like an interesting experiment. Since then, its community has grown rapidly and today, it implemented

This morning at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Jyri Engeström, co-founder of Jaiku and now Google employee, spoke about building sites around social objects. What this means is

The cyn.in desktop client from a company called Cynapse is a new application that brings microblogging to the corporate desktop. Powered by Adobe AIR, the client is intended to improve

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_Acquires_Microblogging_Service_Jaiku'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Finnish short messaging and microblogging service Jaiku has been acquired by Google, the company says. That Google bought this competitor