I still feel the average level of discussion and, dare I say, IQ at Jaiku exceeds that found on Twitter. But with only a small core of people left and those who are increasingly turning to crossposting, I too don’t feel the urge anymore to come back to a service that I once thought could become one of the most influential on the web. The feeds, the mobile app, the UI, all so elegant and clever, it makes me sad so little is done with it. And we’re seeing it starve as a 20% project, without management or marketing, it’s as if Mozart retired at 8 years old.

I would feel sadder if Flickr would close down or probably last.fm but the decline of Jaiku is probably my biggest web service disappointment to date.