October 9, 2007

newsflash: google buys jaiku

6 Comments

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Jaiku, the Finnish microblogging site was just bought by Google. The full story is here.
Jaiku was founded by Jyri Engestrom, the anthropologist who turned me on to the “Social Object” idea.
Big congrats to Jyri and his team!

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6 Responses to “newsflash: google buys jaiku”

  1. anna says:
    October 9, 2007 at 5:17 pm

    Hi Hugh, can we get this Picture for a conference presentation from nils?

  2. hugh macleod says:
    October 9, 2007 at 9:39 pm

    Go ahead and use it, Anna, no worries. Thanks for asking :)

  3. Raimo van der Klein says:
    October 9, 2007 at 10:34 pm

    Hi Hugh,
    I believe Jyri was a sociologist ;-)
    Made a pic about the move:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/rhymo/1526338326/

  4. hugh macleod says:
    October 9, 2007 at 10:39 pm

    Hey Raimo,
    Last I checked, Jyri was currently getting his PhD in Anthropology. No worries, the truth will out eventually etc.

  5. Joaquín says:
    October 10, 2007 at 3:57 am

    I still can´t get over the fact Scoble mentions on his blog: Orkut receives more page views per day than any other Google service!!! wtf???

  6. sarchi says:
    October 10, 2007 at 5:11 pm

    the next social guage man