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Holy Cow. Thumbs up to Jyri and the gang!

Other coverage here and here and here and here. It’s cool to know that the guys we got as speakers at the Hej! 2007 conference early this year got acquired by Google!

Personally I had communicated with Jyri (though emails) and Andy Smith and you know what, honestly, these guys deserve every bit of attention they’re getting at the moment. Wishing them all the best in the future…and wait a second, does this mean a) first Mobile Adsense, now this, then google-phone? b) more jaiku users in Singapore? c) What’s the next big idea from Jyri and co?

Rock on guys. Finland explodes, Sweden rejoices, Singapore wakes up.

So Spotify, when is your turn?

[How apt. Look at my previous post ]

[Here’s the guy apparently behind the acquisition on the GooG side]

[There are rumours about the possible acquisition price being in the range of 20 to 30million USD. But one will have to wait and see I guess…Maybe there could be a performance related clause just like the Skype-eBay deal]

[The most spoken word in Twitter is ….. . . .. . .. . . . ? Yes, It’s JAIKU. Twitter pawned]

Managed to get a quick comment via email from one of Sweden’s pioneer tech bloggers, Henrik T, and here are his comments. . .

I think Google has bought a smart team with a very nice product. The possibilities for integration into “Gphone” or Orkut is interesting.

I think Twitter will continue to be popular.

Just got off gtalk with Eric W, friend, entrepreneur and a friend of the man of the moment, Jyri and here are his comments

Eric: I think the data perspective is really interesting, and that’s where the controversies lie as well
Sriram: What do you mean by controversies?
Eric: Google is in a way the most “valuable buyer” of this dataset, because they can really do things the jaiku guys simply didn’t have enough resources for with the data…well, google knows your private+business conversations through gmail, your searches, etc…. and know they know your location+attention trails as well+which friends you communicate that to..
Sriram: ahh yes
Eric: so it’s almost too powerful, and as we know historically, that may lead to corruption…so, in other words, google is the perfect match if you look at the data and what could potentially be done with it, especially when you mix gphone into that picture and given what jyri’s vision of the phone is (a very good one, in my opinion)

[Was just thinking out aloud, did Google buy Jaiku partly because it might be doing well as a Facebook application? If yes, then Slide, Rockyou! watch out]

[Jorkut, Gooku, Jaigle sounds terrible. Sorosh says it might be called Google Presence]

Got off skype with Martin K, founder of Primelabs (Twingly) and this is what he has to say about the acquisition. . .

Martin Källström says: There are major changes ahead, Google will connect all of their social apps into one with roaming user profiles. Microsoft will probably buy a chunk of facebook to counter googles new social strategy. Google is competing with Facebook on who’s more open.

Martin Källström says: The major shift that roaming user profiles bring is that the users become the network. Instead of a network of apps with different sets of users we’ll see a network of users with different apps.

Martin Källström says: When you change your profile in Jaiku it will be updated everywhere else. You will have one large activity stream that includes all your applications. Competition will be around making the data useful and available. With the mobile internet revolution just around the corner, this will lead to a very swift change in how we consume online media

Jyri commented on Jaiku about the acquisition.

We’re joining Google because we see big potential in what we’re doing - potential that we want to realize as services that our Jaiku users love, and other mobile and Internet users too. We’re not planning to disappear: you know we use Jaiku to communicate with many of the people that are personally dear to us. While it’s too soon to comment on specific products and our development plans, we honestly believe that together with the engineers who we’ve befriended at Google we can build great new things that we couldn’t do alone.