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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
- Lumi Group Enlightens Our Streets 12/03/2010
- From Russia With Leaders – Good 2 Work With 12/03/2010
- Thank You Sponsors 11/03/2010
- TradeShift Looking To Further Digitalize Payments 11/03/2010
- MyClubCards – Why Do All The Great Ideas Come From Sweden? 10/03/2010
- Spotify Signs Exclusive Deal With TeliaSonera Finland 09/03/2010
- Crowdsourcing Ideas For ArcticEvenings 09/03/2010
- Mediatonic Fund I Starts Financing Games and Media Products 08/03/2010
- Being Self-Sustainable With Tuulivoimala.com 05/03/2010
- The Game Industry In Flux 05/03/2010
