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Jaiku micro-blogging client goes open source
Meanwhile, now that JaikuEngine is avialable to the public, anyone can set up their own version of Jaiku. And developers can help contribute to the project. It should be interesting to see how the project fares. While Twitter certainly dominates the micro-blogging space, it's possible that the new open source nature of Jaiku will make it attractive to open source enthusiasts. There's also the possibility that by making the project open source, developers will contribute new and exciting features more quickly -- but only if a strong developer community grows around JaikuEngine.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Zach said 4:21PM on 3-15-2009
Great news--I wonder if it will attract more users though.
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R said 9:02PM on 3-15-2009
I doubt it. People are more likely to go with what's more popular. And Twitter is extremely popular right now. It's too bad. Jaiku is somewhat better than Twitter. But they missed their window of opportunity. Aside from the early technical issues, they've been closed beta and invite-only for as long as I could remember. How are you supposed to get people to use your service if you don't let them sign up for it? LOL.