hopefully it gets integrated into a mobile suite with mail, im, and contacts which also connects to grandcentral.. Be cool if as a grandcentral user you could receive an SMS sent to your number as a direct jaiku message.
BTW - Petteri is out. Jyri confirmed via jaiku when they had his going away party...
I agree that Jyri and Petteri were a factor in the decision to buy Jaiku over Pownce or Twitter. But, I don't think that is THE reason for the acquisition. I still hold to my theory that a Google Mobile App or Suite is coming - including ability for Google to serve up location-based ads.
@jrhitterman, In my opinion, I don't think that Google is doing a gPhone. Google has never done hardware no matter how much speculation there was that they would.
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World flavor is a good thing to add to silicon valley
2 years, 1 month ago by ChristianBurns
i really do think that this is just another move before the gphone is announced
2 years, 1 month ago by jrhitterman
They're clearly shrewd guys, but I think this was about a big hole in Google's portfolio that they had to fill...
2 years, 1 month ago by stumac
Number 117?
2 years, 1 month ago by malach
hopefully it gets integrated into a mobile suite with mail, im, and contacts which also connects to grandcentral.. Be cool if as a grandcentral user you could receive an SMS sent to your number as a direct jaiku message.
BTW - Petteri is out. Jyri confirmed via jaiku when they had his going away party...
2 years, 1 month ago by atmasphere
Petteri didn't like buy-out? Doesn't want to work for Google? Or is it more take the $$ and run?
2 years, 1 month ago by cbee
he did not say and I did not ask
2 years, 1 month ago by atmasphere
@cbee - what??
2 years, 1 month ago by GrouchoM
Hey Leo, any idea why your main blog isn't updating in Jaiku this weekend?
2 years, 1 month ago by elass
Just a quick comment: Petteri's going away party was for his move to US to work for Google. It was a great party indeed!
2 years, 1 month ago by saikku
My Jaiku hasn't updated since they made the announcement. It seems like they just closed it all down.
2 years, 1 month ago by radiowood
that's what probably happened lets hope there are big improvements In jaiku
2 years, 1 month ago by comptr
I agree that Jyri and Petteri were a factor in the decision to buy Jaiku over Pownce or Twitter. But, I don't think that is THE reason for the acquisition. I still hold to my theory that a Google Mobile App or Suite is coming - including ability for Google to serve up location-based ads.
@jrhitterman, In my opinion, I don't think that Google is doing a gPhone. Google has never done hardware no matter how much speculation there was that they would.
2 years, 1 month ago by tedd
I documented my Theory in witting: http://teddism.com/2007/10/12/why-google-needed-jaiku/
2 years, 1 month ago by tedd
Just so y'all know - feeds should be coming in a bit faster now :)
2 years, 1 month ago by malach
Interesting speculations by Leo & Co - I wish I would be able to comment :)
Greetings from sunny(?) California! (It has rained every day since I arrived here.)
2 years, 1 month ago by petteri
@Petteri, We wish more than you do that you could comment! :)
2 years, 1 month ago by tedd