Since joining Re: I’ve put my blog energy into getting Re:thinking – (our company blog) off the ground. I think the guys at Re: did a killer job on our new site (based on WordPress), and it’s crucial for me to contribute to the blog. Maintaining two Danish blogs is too much for me to cope with at this moment, so I had to make a choice, and it was a no-brainer. I’m a Re: guy now

That being said, I quite like my supersocial domain, and I’ve been struggling with a way to put it to good use. As of now, it’ll be an aggregated blog (running on tumblr) of stuff about social software. It runs on feeds from my delish-bookmarks (tagged social), Flickr-pics (tagged social), posts from this blog and the one at Re:, Tweets, shared articles from my Google reader and some other stuff.

So consider it my personal social media filter. I hope some of you can put some of it to good use, and if not you can still follow my posts in Danish at Re:thinking.

Enjoy.

Turns out the boys and girls at Google agree. They’ve just bought the Finish startup for an undisclosed amount of gDollars, and across the board of Jaiku users people are congratulating Jyri, Petteri and the rest of the Jai-crew.

This announcement ticked in from the Jaiku guys late last night:

Wonderful Jaiku users,

Exciting news, Jaiku is joining Google!

While its too soon to comment on specific plans, we look forward to working with our new friends at Google over the coming months to expand in ways we hope you’ll find interesting and useful. Our engineers are excited to be working together and enthusiastic developers lead to great innovation. We look forward to accomplishing great things together.

In order to focus on innovation instead of scaling, we have decided to close new user sign-ups for now. But fear not! All our Jaiku services will stay running the way you are used to and you will continue to be able to invite your friends to Jaiku.

We have put together a quick Q&A about the acquisition at http://jaiku.com/help/google

Jyri Engestrom and Petteri Koponen, Jaiku Founders

So, what’s the first order of business for Google? Beta-fy the sh%€! Jaiku is – as of now – in Google-beta-land, and will be invite only, for a while.

This Jaukunaut personally hopes that the purchase will mean tons of resources for the development of the phenomenon that has become Jaiku, and let me just join the choir of people who are shouting: ‘congrats guys! now knuckle down and make it even better!’

Read more on the Jaikido blog.

Yes, apparently so.

A few people I know have recently decided to stop feeding content from their blogs into their profiles on social networks.

I have considered doing the same for a while, seeing as duplicating could very well lead to a ban from almighty Google, but so far, I’m still duplicating.

Why, you may ask?

Well, the main resaon is that I like being a part of different contexts online. As a person who works with the internet and is passionate about social software, I feel obligated to being so. Also, I communicate with a lot of different people who seem to prefer different services for reading and writing content. That being said, there is no way in hell I can find the time to think up original content specifically for each service – and why should I? If I find something interesting, I should put it right here, right – on my own blog?

Therefore, I feed my content into various services, and cross my fingers. So far, I haven’t been banned by Google, and incidentally, I might add that the main drivers of traffic for appoulsen.dk are exactly the networks that I feed my content into. So if I decided to cater to the wishes of Google I might actually lose readers. And I don’t want that now, do I?

1. I used to post a lot of pictures on my blog
2. I somtimes even posted videos
3. A post would often just consist of a few good links that I’d stumbled upon
4. Or maybe just a brief update on what I was doing or where I was
5. Or maybe a recap of a few news items

Now

1. I post my pictures on Flickr
2. For vid’s I point to youtube
3. My links are on de.licio.us
4. Precense update and tiny posts (less than 140 characters) are done via Jaiku
5. And interesting news items are aggregated in my Google Reader shared items

So what’s left for the blog?

Well – writing, I guess. Posts that are lengthy enough that they couldn’t just as well be written on my mobile phone.

The people who read my blog know where my pictures are, they know my Jaiku page and through there they’ll be updated on everything I post on Flickr, de.licio.us, Google Reader etc., so there’s really no point in repeating that stuff here, right?

This place is for writing. Well that and reading of course… heavy…

Anyway, I’m also kind of a sucker for all things Apple. Yes, they could be friendlier on the environment, yes they could be more open in their communication, yes their customer service leaves much to be desired, etc.

But their products are just so damn cool!

So why am I talking about Google and Apple? Well, after installing gDisk on my MacBook I’ve decided not to renew my .mac membership next time around. It’s just not worth it.

gDisk is freeware. All it really does is allow you to create folders in your empty gmail space (none of us are really USING 3 gigs, are we?) and upload to these folders from your mac just as you would with iDisk. You can then access these folders and download your files from any other computer with gDisk on it.

SpanningSync takes care of syncronising my iCal and gCal and now iDisk provides me with the one thing I really found useful in .mac – the online storage space (The other features are pretty much covered by Flickr and WordPress). With gDisk I even get three times (and counting) the space compared to the standard one gig .mac subscription.

€99 a year saved. Bye bye iDisk.