Techcrunch: Aiming To “Make Meaning,” Jaiku Co-Founder Leaves Google

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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 popularity. Today, co-founder Jyri Engeström is leaving Google. When we last talked to him in May, Engeström seemed to be enjoying what he was working on at Google. And as he told us in January, "We're not dying, we're morphing," after Google decided to cease internal development of Jaiku. Rather than killing off Jaiku completely, like it did with Dodgeball and others, Google decided to allow Jaiku to be ported over to App Engine, and open-sourced. Sadly, still not much has come of that. And now, it's unclear how much Engeström will have to do with the project from this point on.
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