Venice Project
All about the Venice Project, a new company started by the Skype co-founders. Venice is supposed to launch in New York at the Television conference in Nov 2006. Venice Project is a peer-to-peer technology (hosted on a network of... [more]
All about the Venice Project, a new company started by the Skype co-founders. Venice is supposed to launch in New York at the Television conference in Nov 2006. Venice Project is a peer-to-peer technology (hosted on a network of individual computers) for television viewing.
The Venice Project has now launched under the brand name Joost. You can check it out at Joost.com
Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom
Why so much press interest in Joost? Well, the co-founders have some history...
Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom are the guys behind Skype, and before that Kazaa. People take them seriously because they've revolutionized other industries in the past.
That said, the early beta of Joost isn't yet impressive. So far, it is mostly talk and a bit of negotiation success with the big media companies. We'll see what they can come up with on the tech end soon.
Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom are the guys behind Skype, and before that Kazaa. People take them seriously because they've revolutionized other industries in the past.
That said, the early beta of Joost isn't yet impressive. So far, it is mostly talk and a bit of negotiation success with the big media companies. We'll see what they can come up with on the tech end soon.
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