…and inches a little further towards critical mass. This is definitely going to change things–what will all you Twitter-ites do?
Google has bought Finnish start-up Jaiku, which offers a mobile phone application that locates users and allows them to post short messages to a social network.
The news comes as rumours reach fever pitch that Google could launch a mobile phone, or mobile phone operating system as early as February 2008.
Of course, this doesn’t mean the absolute death of Twitter. There are instances where Google’s product is being outdone–Picasa/Flickr, Blogger/Wordpress. But in general they are heavy hitter in any market they enter. I think the mobile phone arena could actually use a good Googling.
As for me, I have to draw the line at text messaging and Twitter. Those are two things that seem absolutely pointless to me.
