This is huge for me. I have several apps running on AppEngine and one of them is a soon to be released location-based game for mobile phones (starting with the

This is huge for me. I have several apps running on AppEngine and one of them is a soon to be released location-based game for mobile phones (starting with the iPhone). I have had to jump through tons of hoops in order to eliminate the need for background processes. Not to mention that sometimes you need just a little longer than the request timeout to process a data set. I think that Jaiku is a perfect example of how "eating your own dogfood" makes your product better / more useful. I am really looking forward to the source being released too.