jaiku cashes out
infectious social presence
joins the Google clan

Here are two Skype Journal exclusive video interviews with Jyri Engestrom.

In the first video Jyri dives into microblogging's meaning and social behavior, and the future of Jaiku.

• You have a new product. What's it called?
• What's microblogging?
• How does it feel different than blogging?
• Who reads that stuff?
• In blogging terms its sort of conversation fodder or blog fodder or link bait? You're trying to trigger conversations with other people that are interested in the same things you are, which might be you or the things you're paying attention to?
• So multiple people can post to the same topic stream. But in the process not see the day to day posts?
• What do you call the entries?
• Where do you see Jaiku going in the next year?
• So you're not writing for history any more, with all the burden that goes with that. You're writing for the moment?

In the second interview, Jyri explores presence.

• What does presence mean to you?
• How is presence different now, in June 2007, than it was a year ago?
• The sources for presence information are mostly from Jaiku itself. Are you looking at other sources for presence information?
• Are there any standards that you'd like to see for interop with other presence streams?

 Jyri on the acquisition (via Jaiku, of course):

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.