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Website	Jaiku
Blog	http://jaiku.com/blog/
Category	Web Services
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City	Mountain View
Founded	Feb, 2006

Jaiku

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Jaiku is an activity stream and micro-blogging service that works from the Web and mobile phones.

Jaiku, Ltd. was founded in February, 2006 by Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen from Finland. The service was released on the Web in July 2006. Jaiku was based in Helsinki before it got acquired by Google in October 2007.

The terms of the acquisition are not disclosed.

Twitter is the closest US based competitor that has become the most popular micro-blogging service reaching mainstream in the 2008 US presidential elections.

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Teemu Kurppa

Jyri Engeström

Petteri Koponen

Janne Kalliola

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Jaikido Blog

• Upcoming service break 11/03/2009
• Scheduled Downtime, 8:30am PST 22/02/2009
• We’re going open source 15/01/2009
• Upcoming service break for infrastructure upgrade 17/10/2008
• We’re back, and invitations are now unlimited 27/08/2008
• From the Dev Corner: An Under-The-Hood Preview of Our New Engine 18/08/2008
• Web server outage 18/08/2008
• Short SMS maintenance break 09/06/2008
• Making progress 30/05/2008
• Wroom - we’re moving to Google App Engine 08/04/2008

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• Location, Location, Location! Or Timing and Execution? 04/12/2009
• Two Years Is Up, Jaiku Founders Leave Google 13/10/2009
• Mindtrek’s First Day – Full Of Variety 02/10/2009
• Jaiku Co-founder Joins Aito Board – A Win For The Ecosystem 29/04/2009
• Qaiku.com – YAJC (Yet Another Jaiku Clone) 11/03/2009
• Follow ArcticEvening Via Twitter 03/03/2009
• Twitbear Defies Twitter With Commenting 24/02/2009
• Twingly Sees The Forest From The Trees With Microblog Search 22/01/2009
• Microblogging hotter than ever – Bloggy.se launches public beta 15/01/2009
• Google Ceases Development of Jaiku, Open Sources Platform 15/01/2009
• Will The Future iTunes Look Like Spotify? 07/01/2009
• Twitter Moving Towards Jaiku? 29/12/2008
• Jaiku Picks Up. Android Integration Soon In The Plans? 17/12/2008
• Finnish Jaiku Community Fights Back. Hard! 16/12/2008
• Finland Finally Moving To Twitter 15/12/2008
• Joi Ito Is Still Investing, Despite Downturn 12/12/2008
• Teemu Kurppa Is Leaving Google 21/11/2008
• How To Break From The Arctic Region 12/11/2008
• First Impression Of Nokia Friend View 07/11/2008
• Is Nokia Buying Zipiko? 01/10/2008
• The European Landscape For Startups 22/09/2008
• Slush Helsinki 22/09/2008
• A Chat With The Jaiku Founders At Seedcamp 16/09/2008
• Eat.fi Down For Launch Of New Site 09/09/2008
• Jaiku still to move to Google App Engine 29/08/2008