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Jaiku was a social networking, micro-blogging and lifestreaming service comparable to Twitter, founded a month before the latter. Jaiku was founded in February 2006 by Jyri Engeström [3] and Petteri Koponen from Finland [4] and launched in July of that year.
Jaiku was a Finnish microblogging social network similar to Twitter. It allowed users to post short messages, or “jaikus”, sharing their thoughts and opinions on all kinds of subjects. You could make the posts private, thus sharing them just with your friends, or public and visible to all users.
Apr 26, 2011 · Jyri Engeström, co-founder of Jaiku, a microblogging tool similar to Twitter, shares his experience of being acquired by Google in 2007 and the challenges of integrating with Google's products and culture. He also reflects on the lessons learned and the impact of social media on society.
Oct 12, 2007 · Google bought Jaiku, a Finnish startup that offers microblogging, in 2007. The acquisition could signal Google's interest in developing a mobile phone, or "gPhone", and in the mobile-messaging space.
Oct 12, 2009 · In October 2007, Google bought the Finnish social networking site Jaiku. In the following couple of years, they somehow managed to do absolutely nothing with it, even as rival Twitter rose in ...
Oct 10, 2007 · Google Inc. has purchased Jaiku Ltd., a Finnish startup company that has developed an application for mobile phones that lets people display short status messages on their contact lists.
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Oct 9, 2007 · Jaiku was a social networking, micro-blogging and lifestreaming service comparable to Twitter. Jaiku was founded in February 2006 by Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen from Finland and launched in July of that year. It was purchased by Google on October 9, 2007.
