With the obvious exception of Gmail, Google’s forays into social networking do not seem to have been as well-received. There is orkut, of course. Orkut is huge in some parts of the globe, so maybe this is a bad example; or at least, it’s an example of being somewhat North-America-centric in my perspective. That said, North America is where I’m at, and here, Orkut is no big splash. While even the non-internet savvy in North America are familiar with dozens of news stories about MySpace and Facebook, I doubt Orkut has popped up on most folks’ radar.
Jaiku seems to be in about the same boat. I had never heard of it until Google bought it, though I realize that many other early adopters had heard of it. It has most or all of twitter’s features, and a few of FriendFeeds, in that it can import feeds from other sites, such as Twitter.
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