Google bought Jaiku the Finnish based “social network based in and on the web & mobile phones” for an undisclosed sum.
Whats the new name? Jaioogle? Jaigle? Jagle?
Raimo van der KLein Says:
Oops Nokia you are too late… Petteri, Jyri and team congatulations!
Yup…they are too late. But I would expect that Nokia had been in touch with Jaiku about maybe……talking….
But seriously, unless Nokia were unable to give Jaiku the guarantees they wanted, it would have been a good buy for Nokia…
If you combine Nokia + Navteq + Jaiku you would have a nice location based/navigation app..
There was a little discussion on the comment left by Jyri Engeström founder of Jaiku.
Googles interesting relationship with privacy is the main concern.
My 2cent: a. congrats Jyri & Petteri and all for getting a large player to acknowledge your value and the useful, fun and popular app Jaiku has become. b. I notice that in the blog post noted above you mention that new subs will be on hold for a while.
Can I ask: please please please please please do not require Jaiku users or new users to create a gmail/google-ID to access Jaiku.
While don’t “hate” Google, I really resist in having to use their GMail ID for their services (yes I know thats what “powers” Google, but I dont like it). I have one gmail account: purely for mailing lists, and I do not want my personal “posts/messages/thoughts” tied to some Gmail account.
SO, Jaikuistas - please please please enjoy your new partnerships within Google (Dog knows you have earned it!), but do not become a Google app (ala Writley, Google Groups, etc).
I value my privacy (the little I have left).
Discuss/flame as wished.
kiitos, ..b (puts on my flame retardent suit)
Lets hope Jaiku doesn’t become another Google app..I don’t think it will, I hope not.
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