by 2 Cylivers
If you needed any more evidence that Google is serious about pwning the mobile phone market yesterday's news that it bought wee willy Finnish company Jaiku fits the bill.
Jaiku makes "microblog" software for phones, allowing users to easily bombard friends and colleagues with details of their mundane existences while out and about, on the move, as it were. Right. Because that's really what the world needs now.
Microblogging is also the fuel that powers Twitter; one of the most annoying of the Web 2.0 companies recently spawned by the City of San Francisco, which itself has been made virtually unlivable by its second cycle of preppy-powered Internet-driven entitlement and avarice. (In an hilarious twist some wags are now referring to "Twitter" as "Shitter," based on its total absence of business plan, and the extreme annoyance factor of the people who think it's cool. Does it make me a bad person that I think this joke is funny?)
By definition microblogs are even more vacuous and content free than regular blogs. So Google's move indicates not just a move into a new market, but a move to clog the Internet "tubes" with more worthless information.
Comments
- toddj, Apr 09, 2008 at 02:34 AM PDT said:
Twitter...shitter...lol:)
