October 9, 2007

newsflash: google buys jaiku

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!

anna says
October 9, 2007 at 5:17 pm

Hi Hugh, can we get this Picture for a conference presentation from nils?
hugh macleod says
October 9, 2007 at 9:39 pm

Go ahead and use it, Anna, no worries. Thanks for asking 🙂
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/
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.
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???
sarchi says
October 10, 2007 at 5:11 pm

the next social guage man