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Blogzengestrom.com
BirthplaceHelsinki, Finland
Birthdate10/19/77

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Co-Founder
Product Manager, Social & Mobile
Director

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Senior Product Manager, Internet Handhelds

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Jyri Engestrom

Jyri Engeström co-founded microblogging service Jaiku with Petteri Koponen in 2006. A native of Helsinki, Finland, he moved to San Francisco when Google acquired Jaiku in 2007. He is currently Product Manager at Google, where he has been responsible for areas of Google’s social infrastructure including Google Profiles and Google’s sharing model. Prior to Jaiku he occupied the position of senior product manager at Nokia, responsible for Nokia’s Linux-based Internet Handhelds products. A sociologist by training, he is noted for coining the term ‘social objects’ to refer to photos, bookmarks, and other shareable Web content. He co-founded and runs the Aula conference with Marko Ahtisaari.

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    Jyri Engestrom added a position as Director at XIHA. (1/25/10)
    Posted 1/25/10 at 1:37pm
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    Jyri Engestrom added a position as Product Manager, Social & Mobile at Google.
    Posted 12/12/08 at 1:05am
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    Jyri Engestrom added a position as Senior Product Manager, Internet Handhelds at Nokia.
    Posted 12/12/08 at 1:05am
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    Jyri Engestrom added a position as Co-Founder at Jaiku.
    Posted 7/10/07 at 12:56am

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