Jyri Engeström
Jyri is founder of Jaiku, a service that brings people closer together by enabling them to share their rich presence. Jaiku members share presence messages on the Web and mobile phone by text messaging and using a mobile application.
Before founding Jaiku, Engeström worked for Nokia and helped to shape the company's Wi-Fi device offering. He also actively engages in conversation about technology and society, and is often recognized for introducing social objects as an alternative way to conceptualize social networks.
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Nodal points video from Reboot 10
--Reboot has now published the video of my talk on social objects, social peripheral vision, and nodal points. I gave a slightly developed, much cond...
Objects and asymmetrical sharing on Reader
--This week Google Reader updated its Shared Items so users can share them with a hand-picked friend group. Up until now sharing on Reader has bee li...
Nodal points video
--Here's a video of the social objects & nodal points keynote from The Web and Beyond: Mobility conference: The busy folks at SPRXMobile also publish...
Reboot 10 talk on Nodal Points
--Copenhagen's Reboot is one of a few conferences I would not miss. This year was the 10th anniversary of the event, and true to the spirit of its th...
Jaiku's new home
--Tonight we demonstrated Jaiku running on Google App Engine, a new development environment that enables anyone to develop Web services that can scal...
OpenSocial foundation
--Joe has been working on something I like a lot, the OpenSocial Foundation (opensocial.org). It was announced this morning (there's a press call sta...
A beautiful day
--The wedding outfits I mentioned in the previous post were released at the Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday. The dress, a flat hexagon that opens up in...
A beautiful day
--The wedding outfits I mentioned in the previous post were released at the Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday. The dress, a flat hexagon that opens up in...
A beautiful day
--The wedding outfits I mentioned in the previous post were released at the Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday. The dress, a flat hexagon that opens up in...
A beautiful day
--The wedding outfits I mentioned in the previous post were released at the Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday. The dress, a flat hexagon that opens up in...
So we're getting married
--Note: this post was written on January 31st but I initially decided to not publish it because of the personal nature of the topic. I'm publishing i...
High school shooting
--An 18-year old boy shot to death 8 and wounded 12 in a high school in Jokela, Finland this week. The police found the shooter on the school corrido...
First week at Google
--On October 9th, two weeks ago, our company was acquired by Google. Loic asked me about it on camera at Web 2.0 Summit on Thursday. A few days after...
Tim O'Reilly on what's missing from the iPhone
--In June I gave a short talk at a conference called Essential Web at the London IMAX. The organizers of the conference had recorded an interview wit...
Wine as a social object
--Today's FT has a piece on the Blue Monster Reserve, a special wine label created by winery Stormhoek for Microsoft and its employees. The label on ...
A Bill of Rights for the social Web
--Joseph Smarr (Plaxo) has put together an influential group who yesteday posed a proposal for a Bill of Rights for "users of the social Web." Read J...
Scoble: microblogging is the "next email"
--Scoble's column on microblogging (featuring Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, and Facebook) from the latest issue of FastCompany is up online. It's titled "T...
Opening up the social graph
--Recently more people have been tossing around the idea that an open social network enabler could be the Next Big Thing. John Battelle wrote that "P...
New Jaiku Mobile
--"You’ve heard us talking about it, possibly even had one of our lovely beta testers telling you how great it’s going to be; now it’s out in the wil...
What makes a good social object
--I woke up this morning and felt like blogging. It's been a long time :) We've had Reboot, FOO Camp, and a bunch of other opportunities for rewardin...
How Mr. Lordi Joined Jaiku
--A little while ago we created a Eurovision commentary channel on Jaiku to enable live commenting around this camp megaspectacle, which is taking pl...
Jaiku.com outage
--UPDATE: Jaiku is now back up and running. UPDATE2: The reason of the crash was evidently a traffic spike from badges, Nebula was responsive alhtoug...
This Easter the party's on Jaiku
--Leo Laporte the charismatic tech conversationalist and owner of TWiT network of online media announced on his blog he’d moved to Jaiku. He can be f...
Video of Stockholm MSN talk
--MSN has posted a short video interview about my talk on designing services around social objects, recorded at their Innovate event in Stockholm in ...
Le Web 3 in Paris
--France's leading blogger-entrepreneur Loic Lemeur delivers: Le Web 3 final program is out and reads like it'll be a conference worthy of note. I'm ...
Social objects talk in Stockholm
--UPDATE: Sign up to Innovate here. I'll be speaking at the MSN-sponsored Innovate event in Stockholm on Thursday, December 7th. The talk will be a f...
London
--I'm in London for a few days to work on the next version of Thinglink with Ulla-Maaria and Matt Biddulph. We'll be stationed at the Moo HQ - thanks...
Nokia World - Creators Panel
--Notes from a panel with Stewart Butterfield (Flickr/Yahoo), Mike Iampietro (Adobe), Terence Swee (Muvee), Richard Ting (R/GA ad agency) What trends...
Nokia World - Vanjoki keynote
--Anssi Vanjoki is EVP & head of Multimedia at Nokia. Rough notes from his talk: "I'm going to walk you through a day in the life of four people whos...
Nokia World - CTO keynote
--CTO Tero Ojanperä gave a refreshing closing keynote at Nokia World. He has a fun presentation style and there were lots of concrete examples. Here ...
Nokia World - Yahoo keynote
--After a couple of boring talks by operators (the buzzword in that world: 'market segementation'), Yahoo's Mitch Lazar is up. - "Mobility is absolut...
Nokia World - OPK keynote
--I took a morning flight into Amsterdam for Nokia World. The event's big but not huge. I overheard someone mention there are about 3,000 registered ...
Nokia World
--The "mobility event of the year" aka Nokia World is taking place Wed-Thu. in Amsterdam. I'll be heading there as will the key Nokia execs and a bun...
A guys' night out
--Fredrik Weibull of Winkreative invited me to a herrmiddag, a sort of male bonding event in Stockholm this weekend. I never participated in a herrmi...
SIME first day's summary
--Marko closed the first day with seven points that I think astutely identified the collective brainwaves at this conference: 1. Bubble trouble: inte...
SIME mobile session
--Question from the audience (my translation): "What can save the mobile industry?" Marko Ahtisaari: "I'd say drop data costs, make data pricing tran...
SIME - Lords of the Blogosphere
--Some quotes (not precise, but by and large) from the Lords of the Blogosphere panel at SIME06 featuring blogger-entrepreneurs Loic Lemeur, Nico Lum...
Web 2.0 - mitä se on? kalvot
--Kävin puhumassa viime viikolla Opintoluotsin järjestämästä julkisen sektorin verkkopalveluja käsittelevässä seminaarissa. Kalvot "Web 2.0-mitä se o...
Future trends: quotes from SIME 06
--Heads up from the future trends panel, the first session of the morning at SIME 06. Four entertaining, edgy guys (no girls) moderated by the elegan...
New Jaiku out
--We launched a new version of the Jaiku beta. Everyone on Jaiku now gets a presence stream where they can post updates about everyday things as they...
Blyk - a free mobile operator
--Blyk - a new, free mobile operator - announced this morning it will launch in the UK in mid-2007. Blyk offers free calls and texts in exchange for ...
Interview with Ward Cunningham
--Wiki inventor Ward Cunningham is the guest in the latest episode of Janne's and my Verkko 2 podcast. We talk about the history and future of the wi...
John Buckman in Helsinki
--John Buckman, CEO and Founder of Magnatune, will give an Aula Talk entitled "Is There a Record Company That Is Not Evil?" this evening 7pm at Korja...
Makani Power raises $10M
--Renaissance man Saul Griffith, founder of Squid Labs and inventor of Low Cost Eyeglasses, raised a $10M Series A round from Google for his new alte...
Episode on Star Wreck
--Episode 3 of Janne's and my Verkko2 podcast is out. We're dedicating one episode to each of Tim O'Reilly's seven theses on Web 2.0. The topic this ...
Why startups need independence
--David Homik has a nice post on VentureBlog about the problems incubators and government grants create for startups. Both have played a visible role...
Off to FOO
--Ulla and I are heading stateside today. We'll be in New York tomorrow, at FOO Camp in Sebastopol this weekend, and in the San Francisco Bay Area ne...
Matt Biddulph video online
--The video of Matt Biddulph's Aula Talk on the Open Data Movement is now available online. In the talk, Biddulph describes how the Open Data Movemen...
Videos from Aula 2006
--Videos of 19 of the 20+ talks from Aula 2006 - Movement are now available on Blip.tv. The appearances include: - Jochi Ito's keynote on MMORPGs - M...
Entrepreneurship as 'trying'
--Petteri Koponen, who I co-founded Jaiku with, is now blogging on Vox as Serial Trier. He's punning on the Finnish expression for 'entrepreneur' and...
Radar scan
--A journalist friend asked me for some things to watch in the online world. Here's what I came up with off the top of my head: 1. Internet TV BitTor...
Matt Biddulph's Aula Talk on Thursday 8/17
--Matt Biddulph kindly agreed to give an Aula Talk while he's visiting Helsinki this coming week. The talk is on the Open Data Movement and it will t...
Verkko2 on microformats
--Tantek, I, Ryan, and Ulla looking jovial after lunch in SoMa (photo by Kevin) Episode 2 of the Verkko2 podcast is now available for download. The t...
How to present to investors
--A quote from Paul Graham's Hackers and Painters starts off one of the chapters in my PhD thesis. Now Graham's got some tips on presenting to invest...
Community design strategies
--Amy Jo Kim wrote one of the classics on Web community design. AJ and Scott her puzzlemaster husband and their vivacious 7-year old son were in town...
Introducing Jaiku
--Jaiku is the new startup I co-founded with Petteri Koponen, Mika Raento and Teemu Kurppa. It's a social phonebook that displays the real-time avail...
Our Finnish podcast on Web 2.0 kicks off
--Together with Janne Jalkanen of ButtUgly we've been working on a Finnish-language podcast titled Verkko2 on and off for a couple of months. The fir...
Blind Men's Baseball - The Social Importance of Peripheral Vision
--I gave this presentation at Reboot 8. I've also presented parts of it on a couple of other occasions, including a session with Nokia's CTO and at A...
Il manifesto could fold
--Donatella della Ratta, a reporter for Il Manifesto, the well-known Italian leftist newspaper, spoke at Aula 2006 about Al-Jazeera and the revolutio...
Aula up and running
--Whoopee, we're back online!
Aula is getting a massage
--The Aula site is down due to a disk problem - the hosting company is working to fix it and hopefully we'll be back up and running soon.
Aula 2006 - Movement
--Marko Ahtisaari and I are organizing the Aula 2006 - Movement event in Helsinki next week. This will be the largest Aula event yet, and we've moved...
Kite boating
--Last weekend I went out on a kite boat in the North Bay with Saul Griffith of Squid Labs and Tim Anderson and other friends. It's like kite surfing...
Visiting Tim O'Reilly
--A little while ago Janne Jalkanen asked me if I'd partner up with him to create a Finnish-language podcast about the second generation of the Web. ...
Left Coast
--I just booked flights to San Francisco and Seattle, leaving on Friday. Ulla is going to launch the Thinglink beta at Maker Faire on Saturday. Cooli...
Stepping down from Nokia
--I did something that sounds completely nuts. I resigned from my position at Nokia Multimedia after just six weeks. That so because it turned out un...
Web 2.0 course
--Ulla and I will run an introductory course on Web 2.0 and recommendation-based markets at the University of Industrial Arts in Helsinki on Friday. ...
Joined Nokia
--On March 1st I joined Nokia as Senior Product Manager, Internet Handhelds. I'm based in Helsinki. In Nokia's org I work in the Convergence Products...
Ray Ozzie's "Few Simple Ideas"
--Ray Ozzie is showing a demo of 'Live Clipboard' here at ETech. It's a way to copy structured (for instance, microformatted) data from a web page an...
When there's a will, there's a way
--A free public Wi-Fi network will open in Helsinki in the beginning March, reports Helsingin Sanomat today. The network will cover the cafés and bou...
Mobtagging workshop
--Ulla and I are both speaking at the Mobtagging workshop, organized by Mediamatic in Amsterdam today and tomorrow. Ulla will also deliver an open le...
US Web 2.0 entrepreneurs raise ten times more than Europe
--Paul Fisher compared VC funding for Web 2.0 startups in the U.S. and Europe. As one would assume Europe lags behind, but the discrepancy he reports...
Anina told to stop blogging
--Model Anina reports that her agency has told her to stop blogging. She's the latest in a growing list of professionals who face the consequences of...
DLD talk
--Here are the transcript and slides of my 8-minute DLD talk, titled "Internet Services and Mobile Devices: What the Future Holds." Three startups pr...
Pre-DLD Interview
--Nicole Simon has interviewed a bunch of Digital Lifestyle Day speakers for the pre-conference podcast. In the one she did with me we spoke, among o...
Going to LIFT
--Ulla and I will be in Geneva for Lift 06 Feb 2nd-3rd.
Speaking at Digital Lifestyle Day 06
--Hubert Burda Media is organizing Digital Lifestyle Day 06 in Munich on January 23-24. They've invited 200 people to 'discuss the connected worlds, ...
Blogging interview
--Here's an interview on blogging I did at Bloggforum in Stockholm with Sisuradio, the Finnish-language station of Sweden's national radio. Random qu...
Les humph
--UPDATE: The last panel stood apart. Loic's moderation was on cue, Reid Hoffman dropped gems, and Yat Siu convinced that English isn't the main lang...
Oui! Les Blogs
--I was supposed to be in the U.S. next week but now that changed so Ulla and I just booked flights to Paris for Les Blogs 2. Yay!
Aula talk: David Weinberger
--The Wall Street Journal called him a "marketing guru". He's the co-author of the The Cluetrain Manifesto, the bestseller that cut through the hype ...
Tangible fun
--Two very cool projects at this weekend's Ultrasound festival: Kick-Ass Kung-Fu (by Animaatiokone) and Tiletoy (by Tuomo Tammenpää and Daniel Blackb...
Google NYC vs. Yahoo! London
--Popped in the Google NYC office and Yahoo's London office last week. Couldn't help noting how similar they are: very central, very hip, several flo...
DesignEngaged and other current bits
--Seems that life as an all-in-one Nokia intrapreneur, web startup guy, and PhD student will continue until christmas and so I'll continue not bloggi...
Apartment hunting
--Ulla and I are apartment-hunting on the cover of the October issue of Suomen Kuvalehti, which is like Time in the Finnish-speaking world. The story...
Thesis crunch +
--It's crunch time with the PhD thesis (hence the pause with the blog). Nokia's keeping me busy in the daytime so both ends of the candle are ablaze ...
A business decision
--Three, the UK operator, sells 3G contracts but doesn't tell its customers that it blocks them from accessing the internet. Al Iguana shares the exp...
Op-ed on wireless
--Helsingin Sanomat, Finland's main newspaper, ran my op-ed on wireless access on Sunday. The paper had previously quoted the mayor of Helsinki, who ...
Open cellphone podcast
--Dan Bricklin podcasts about the need for an open cellphone I've started a new podcast for DiamondCluster International (a consulting firm that Davi...
Off to TEDGLOBAL
--I'm off to Oxford again, to attend TEDGLOBAL. Molti ringraziamenti Bruno Giussani for the invitation. Especially looking forward to hearing the tal...
Social machines
--I'm quoted towards the end in Social Machines, the cover story in the August issue of MIT Technology Review. The article is the most comprehensive ...
Cities, technology, and creativity
--On the political front, cities can start to actively participate in the growing online conversation by establishing weblogs and engaging in dialogu...
Creativecommons.fi launch
--Creativecommons.fi will be launched on Monday. To mark this the IP Redesign initiative at the Medialab in Helsinki is hosting an open workshop on i...
Speaking on object-centered sociality at Reboot (updated with slides)
--A quick shout from Reboot 7 in Copenhagen: it's the first time I've made it to Reboot, and this has got to be the coolest social software-related e...
Ben Cerveny in Helsinki
--I'm hosting the next Aula klubi with Matt Jones tomorrow, with Ben Cerveny (Flickr, Frog Design, etc. etc.) as guest speaker. Ben will speak about ...
Google acquires Dodgeball
--In his message to Dodgeball users, Dennis Crowley writes: As a two-person team, Alex and I have taken dodgeball about a far as we can alone ... Now...
UI idea 3: iChat Place List
--I've been using Plazes for nearly a year and never had anyone I didn't know show up where I was at. Until I stopped in the old Aula space (nowadays...
So long Britain!
--It was great to meet everyone at the James Martin Institute, and like I was hoping the feedback I got from the talk was extremely useful.... JMI ...
Speaking in Oxford
--I'll speak about innovation at the James Martin institute at Said Business School on Friday, May 6th at 11:00. I'm looking forward to this as an ...
Own Logo
--The most she can do, in all modesty, is to offer indications and observations; the people, thus empowered, must do the rest.... Instead of doing ...
The Social Implications of Location Awareness in Third Places
--Here's my short position paper: The Social Implications of Location Awareness in 'Third Places': Learnings from Aula Helsinki A large part of mobi...
Why some social network services work and others don't — Or: the case for object-centered sociality
--A while ago I wondered how our relationship to social networking services will change when instead of adding new contacts, we begin to feel like we...
The missing disruptive mobile device
--Perhaps the world is ready for a new mobile device that will become the icon of the real mobile internet revolution. What would the device do? Most...
F**king thief
--Someone stole my poster during the night from the locked SSIT5 display at LSE. It's got the link to my blog printed on it, so dear perpetrator, kno...
Bookmarks:
Tech guru Tim O'Reilly challenges next generation to get serious - Los Angeles Times
'He is urging young entrepreneurs and engineers to stop making some of the sillier software that lets Facebook users throw virtual sheep at their friends or download virtual beer on iPhones, and instead start making a real difference in the world.'
Chris Heathcote: Google, you're doing mobile ads wrong
Nothing Like a Good Bottle of Wine… « Ventures
Google Code Blog: Project Updates on Google Code
Implementers' Draft: Portable Contacts 1.0 Draft B
WorldChanging: Thinglink: Linking People to the Stories of Things
"Every product that enters our lives has a hidden history"
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