October 9, 2007

newsflash: google buys jaiku

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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