Exeunt Jaiku, stage right. Who is left....

Tuesday, October 9. 2007

Exeunt Jaiku, stage right. Who is left....

Jaiku, one of 3 leading "microblogging" sites, was acquired by Google today (I read it here on TC UK first today. Interesting after the $5m investment in competitor Twitter...who are they going to be sold to now

Sadly, Jaiku's terms are unreleased, but this is no doubt good news for the founders Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen.

Having met Jyri and had a few good conversations with him I think Google have bought not so much a microblogging service (lets be honest - they are not that difficult to replicate) but some very thoughtful mental horsepower. I hope they use it well.

Posted by Alan Patrick in Web Services / Cloud Computing at 20:06 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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