The confirmations are in.
Both Google and Jaiku have announced that Jaiku has been purchased by Google, as Om Malik also reported on GigaOM.
Jaiku is cuter, Pownce has the most functionality but out of the three, I love and use Twitter the most, despite the fact that the links are nofollow. For status updates, only Facebook is getting more love from me right now, and that’s only because I keep forgetting that there’s a FB app for Twitter.
That’s normally a deal-breaker for me, which shows just how much I adore Twitter. It’s simplicity of purpose rules. So I have the same question as the folks at Mashable – why not Twitter? If I were Yahoo, I’d put a bid in for Twitter tonight.
I mean, imagine if they could do with Twitter what they did with Flickr. (Meaning, not muck about with it too much aside from providing more resources. 
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New to Jaiku? Here’s a few resources to help you get familiar. But take note, you must now request an invitation to join Jaiku, as you’ll see when you go there until, according to Google’s post, “we’re ready to expand”.
Scoble Talks to the Founders on Video.
Here’s Jaiku’s official site tour.
And last but not least, here’s my video about Twitter vs Jaiku.
Feel free to share that video on your own blog – if you double-click the video you’ll get the page with the embed code.
