Its a cautionary tale. One to take to heart as well. It was an interesting exercise to watch from inside the 'plex as Jaiku moved from startup -> acquisition -> dead pool. I think to be fair it seemed that internally at Google there was a lot of angst as well but given the comparison with Twitter, then and now.

"We are the Google. Turn over your founder's stock and surrender your engineers. We will add your features and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapted to service us. Resistance is futile."

:-)