Google: We never tried to acquire Twitter
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has clarified that they never tried acquiring the micro-blogging service Twitter.
Google has just entered into a deal wit Twitter which provides them complete access to every tweet ever tweeted.
Google aims to use this data to provide up to date information from the Twitter [...]

Yahoo Meme is their answer to Twitter?
Twitter remains one of the most popular web services.
We have seen a couple of rival services emerging and then disappearing.
Jaiku and Pownce struggled to compete with the popularity of Twitter and are now practically history.
Yahoo however seems to be out with their own Twitter challenger named [...]

Google close to acquiring Twitter?!
TechCrunch is back with another hard to believe story.
The popular technology blog is claiming that the search engine giant Google is in talks with Twitter for a possible acquisition deal.
The report said that the talks are in pretty advanced stages.
Twitter is one of the most talked about web [...]

Google is now on Twitter!
The mighty Google has now joined the Twitter bandwagon.
The first Tweet from the search engine giant was pretty appropriate:
“I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010 “
This translates to I’m Feeling Lucky.
They have already updated five times in the last couple of hours. [...]

Jaiku is now on Google infrastructure
The developers at Jaiku have confirmed that they have now moved on to Google servers.
The service had been down as they had been struggling to fix problems with the original servers.
They are now asking the members to review and accept their new updated terms of service and privacy policy.
Jaiku [...]

Ping.fm for all you social networking fans!
Ping.fm is an exciting new service (currently need invites) designed for the fans of various social networking services.
It works with a variety of networks including:
Bebo, Blogger, Facebook, hi5, Jaiku, LinkedIn, LiveJournal, Mashable, MySpace, Plurk, Pownce, Tumblr, Twitter and Xanga
Updates can be made using a variety of ways and [...]

Google moving Jaiku to Google App Engine
The developers behind the Twitter rival service Jaiku have revealed that they are now moving the service to Google App Engine.
Jaiku said in a blog post that they aim to become one of the major applications to be powered by this platform which was just recently announced.
Google App Engine [...]

Thwirl: Post to Twitter, Jaiku and Pownce together!
If you are user of Twitter, Jaiku and Pownce, Thwirl is a perfect tool for you.
It is essentially a software tool to post updates to Twitter but it can also send the same updates to your accounts on Jaiku and Pownce.
One thing to remember for Jaiku users [...]