December 20, 2006

First Kazaa, Then Skype, Now… The Venice Project

by Piers Fawkes

TheveniceprojectLots of buzz lately in the blogosphere surrounding a new project started by Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, the same guys who built Kazaa, and sold Skype to ebay for billions of dollars. It’s called “The Venice Project,” and claims to be the first Peer-to-Peer IPTV service, distributing video online the same way using the same P2P approach as Skype with online VoIP calling.

There’s not much to be found on the official blog, but you can sign up to be invited for Beta testing. GigaOM also has some exclusive screenshots up on their site.

The Venice Project

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3 Responses to “First Kazaa, Then Skype, Now… The Venice Project”

  1. Jason Peck
    Posted from: 66.147.13.149

    December 21st, 2006 at 11:48 am

    If anyone is currently a beta-tester I’d love an invite!

  2. bb
    Posted from: 84.108.86.221

    December 23rd, 2006 at 3:17 pm

    The Venice Project - the movie
    look inside this project.

    http://en.sababadc.com/the_venice_project.html

    http://en.sababadc.com/theveniceproject.html

  3. PSFK
    Posted from: 10.0.20.4

    January 2nd, 2007 at 11:44 am

    2007 Trends: The HearMeSeeMe Web

    As 2006 saw the maturing of the read-write web (or Web 2.0), 2007 will see the rise of the third stage of the internet’s evolution: the HearMeSeeMe web. The rise

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