Comments on: Google buys social mobile startup Jaiku

By: Twitxr - Like Twitter, With Pictures. Yeah, It’s Photoblogging.

Twitxr - Like Twitter, With Pictures. Yeah, It’s Photoblogging. — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:46:17 +0000

[…] is the upteenth variation of Twitter to appear (see Jaiku (acquired by Google), Pownce, etc. One clone has even gone to the deadpool. This isn’t even the first […]

By: Google Teams With Twitter For Super Tuesday Tracking

Google Teams With Twitter For Super Tuesday Tracking — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:51:33 +0000

[…] but what’s different here is the tie-in with Twitter. Google acquired Twitter rival Jaiku in October, and we haven’t heard much about Jaiku since, aside from some intermittent reports that the […]

By: Cosmonica

Cosmonica — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:07:34 +0000

This will definitively increase the competition race between Twitter and Jaiku. The former has the advantage of having more users in its platform. Increasing hte user base is the best way to compete against Google-Jaiku now.

By: Nokia didn't buy Jaiku because it was cheaper to clone them? - Pocket.Net - Mobile 2.0

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:57:03 +0000

[…] of Jonathan Greene, he did a kick ass video review of the application. Many of us were sad to see Google buy this Finland based company and people wanted to know why Nokia didn’t want to partake in the presence/microblogging […]

By: Social Objects at Ponte la Peluka

Social Objects at Ponte la Peluka — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:55:43 +0000

[…] concepto, creo, fue Jyri Engeström, fundador de Jaiku, principal competencia de Twitter y reciente adquisición de Google. Y la primera vez que escuché (lei) sobre este concepto fue cuando Mariano posteó la […]

By: Google купи Jaiku

Google купи Jaiku — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:18:13 +0000

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By: visible.mobi

visible.mobi — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:49:57 +0000

Google is being very aggresive in mobile space.

By: 购物狂再发飙：Google 收购 Jaiku - 花儿开了

购物狂再发飙：Google 收购 Jaiku - 花儿开了 — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:41:57 +0000

[…] FeedBurner 那样干脆。当然，这次买 Jaiku 的保密工作做的也未免太好了点，连 TechCrunch、Mashable 这样的 IT 狗崽都用了 Breaking News 这样的词。一定程度上来讲，Jaiku […]

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:36:59 +0000

#24 Chris, just forget about alexa. Sites like popurls do even have a higher ranking than jaiku.

By: share.websitemagazine.com

share.websitemagazine.com — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:58:55 +0000

Google buys social mobile startup Jaiku…

Jaiku, the Twitter (and Pownce)-like service from Finland, has been bought by Google….

By: Dan Schawbel

Dan Schawbel — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:07:16 +0000

They should have bought twitter.

By: SharpDEE

SharpDEE — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:28:08 +0000

The world is making way for socnet, predominantly ways are being worked out and experimented for mobile socnet. This move seems to cover the gPhone with a kool “G”aiku service now.

The fundamental need of people connecting and needing to connect to people will always remain, whichever be the medium, else the world does not make sense.

Try us as well at http://www.chittr.com , we power conversations, the Indian way.

till then -

By: T-Error

T-Error — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:06:38 +0000

Google acquires Jaiku. Ok. But why not Twitter?…

After taking over Zinku, Google now acquired another mobile-based company: Jaiku. Helsinki-based Jaiku is sort of a Twitter. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Why buy Jaiku if you already have Zinku? And why not directly acquire Twitter?! Als…

By: Alexis Brion

Alexis Brion — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:38:51 +0000

From my point of view Google has made another good move as Jaiku seems to have a much more clear interface and, maybe, better chances to win European hearts. I would really like to test it! I wrote an article about Jaiku design: http://www.designvsart.com/blog/?p=58

By: Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:50:52 +0000

FYI - There is a longer analysis at http://uk.techcrunch.com/2007/.....by-google/

By: agenturblog.de

agenturblog.de — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:49:19 +0000

Google kauft Jaiku…

Neben Twitter und Pownce ist Jaiku einer der etablierten Anbieter in dem neuen Breitensport Microbloggings oder Livestreamings. Dabei setzte Jaiku von Anfang an sehr stark auf die mobile Komponente - vielleicht sogar etwas zu sehr um schnell zu wachsen…

By: Social Networking

Social Networking — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 06:14:47 +0000

that’s a great move by Google as always.

By: james

james — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:45:34 +0000

It would be nice instead of just texts, they allowed pictures and videos to be directly uploaded to the web….maybe through a gphone?

By: isedb.com

isedb.com — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:14:34 +0000

Google buys social mobile startup Jaiku…

Jaiku, the Twitter like service from Finland, has been bought by Google. The terms of the acquisition have not been released….

By: Bruno

Bruno — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 23:24:40 +0000

You can view a video interview of Jaiku’s CEO here:

http://us.intruders.tv/Essenti.....m_a93.html

By: MikeW

MikeW — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:27:54 +0000

Big deal - Google picked up a couple of developers. It’s like the Parakey / Facebook deal.

By: ipanema

ipanema — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:20:35 +0000

now that blogger and jaiku will be related, i hope that my jaiku profile will appear on my blog. it used to until it stopped and i took it out.

By: Jaikus Hiatus| Zoli’s Blog

Jaikus Hiatus| Zoli’s Blog — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:52:24 +0000

[…] posts: TechCrunch, mathewingram.com/work, Ross Mayfield’s Weblog, blognation, Search Engine Land, jkOnTheRun, […]

By: clones mashups

clones mashups — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:52:16 +0000

How will Jaiku/Twit/YouTube mashup companies get affected by this?

Like the one reviewed yesterday. Thanks.

By: David Haddad

David Haddad — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:59:11 +0000

Google will get a lot of with the Jaiku acquisition:
1. the team: some of them have worked at Nokia before, Jyri was a senior product manager there. Also they have top developers like one of the main guys from the jabber open source project.
2. the software: jaiku has a pretty nicely designed & well integrated Symbian app. The app gives your status according to the current phone profile. If you’re talking then you appear as busy for example. The app can also pick the cell tower id that the cellphone is connected to and approximate your location.
3. goodwill: the people using jaiku love jaiku.

* The company will probably move to California or another big Google hq. Although it is Finland-based the team was distributed with some team members working from other European countries. So the acquisition will probably not start a dev. center in Helsinki.

* I expect jaiku’s leadership team to integrate well within Google’s ranks since they have been good acquaintances with the top Google brass.

Congratulations!