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Jyri Engeström
Jyri Engeström is a Finnish sociologist and an entrepreneur who is a co-founder of the activity stream and micro-blogging service Jaiku.
He joined Google with the rest of the Jaiku team when Google acquired the startup in October 2007, and moved to San Francisco, CA to work at Google Headquarter in Mountainvie, CA, in the United States.
Jyri left his work at Google in October 2009 to return to Finland with his family.
Before founding Jaiku, Jyri worked at Nokia Corporation where he co-headed the design of Nokia.com
He also, together with a group of friends co-founded Aula (Finnish for "lobby"), a nonprofit cooperative to advance the vision of a creative society.
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- Jaiku is now open source 14/03/2009
- Signal (and noise) about Jaiku this week 17/01/2009
- Prepare for the Daemon 07/01/2009
- iTunes and Spotify 07/01/2009
- Foreign Friends: from a service-centric to an object-centric social web 24/12/2008
- Three simple points on innovation 23/12/2008
- The G1 and the missing link 23/12/2008
- Conversation with Brian Oberkirch 20/12/2008
- What are ads? 19/12/2008
- A year in retrospect 17/12/2008
ArcticStartup blog posts
- ArcticEvening Tallinn – Registration Now Open 25/05/2010
- Thank You Sponsors! 24/05/2010
- Aalto Capital Launches Marketplace For Startups And Investors 24/05/2010
- Anyfi Networks Introduces New Revenue Model For ISPs With Easy Wi-Fi Over IP Roaming 21/05/2010
- A VC View On Nordic Cleantech 20/05/2010
- TripSay Partners With Helsingin Sanomat 20/05/2010
- 36 Nordic And Baltic Companies Make Red Herring Europe Finalists 20/05/2010
- Nervogrid Lands A 700 000 Euro Investment 19/05/2010
- GigsWiz Launches A Service For Measuring The Demand For Live Concerts 19/05/2010
- ArcticEvening Tallinn, June 1st – An Update 18/05/2010
