The first of the high profile status applications acquisitions; Google buy the we're not quite twitter, but we have really good features we do Jaiku : "That's why we're excited to announce that we've acquired Jaiku, a company that's been hard at work developing useful and innovative applications for staying in touch with the people you care about most -- regardless of whether you're at a computer or on a mobile phone."
Scoble's point actually is a good one too : "Jaiku’s other strength is in aggregating RSS feeds into one place. Interesting that Google is building a very strong position in the RSS ecosystem with Google Reader and Feedburner and now Jaiku. Interesting, will Google use its RSS position against Facebook? We’ll see come November 5."
The always (dont call it) snarkily enjoyable Donna Bogatin : "Guys, maybe, just maybe, Twitter is NOT FOR SALE! I underscored over the weekend that too many hacker entrepreneurs sell themselves short by aiming to only sell themselves to Google, rather than striving to be the next Google: Y Combinator’s Zenter hacker team big case in low expectations point."
Its cooler these days to not sell ! Facebook Stickynotes developers - J-Squared, who are featured in business week : "Last month a privately held media company made a formal acquisition offer worth more than $3 million; following in the footsteps of Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, J-Squared turned it down... working for the acquiring company would have been a term of the proposed agreement. And for the J-Squared founders, becoming two more anonymous product managers didn't hold much appeal—not if they could do something bigger. Tevelow and Aigboboh know how this sounds. "My mom thinks I'm crazy," Tevelow says. "She can't believe there are million-dollar deals coming in and we're saying no."
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