The Venice Project Goes Beta
Tags: Internet, ipTV, Joost, Venice Project
It is interesting to read the news from Reuters that a broadband television service which was named The Venice Project developed by the founders of Skype is expected to be launched next year. Some 6,000 individuals were already testing the service. This Venice Project is using the peer-to-peer technology and it would bring quality TV programs for free to consumers who have a broadband Internet connection.
I have read its blog that talked about the beta version of The Venice Project has released to the public. They also invite people to apply for the beta test. All they need is to apply and fill up the form.
The big question is whether this “The Venice Project” will be as successful as the previous Skype that they launched before. Will The Venice Project snap up by a megabrand for megamoney again? But I strongly believed that there’s a lot of potential for this aforesaid project to keep growing.
January 16th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
[...] I previously have posted a post on The Venice Project. The Skype founders have officially renamed The Venice Project to Joost. It is not surprise for me that the founders of Skype, i.e. Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, the duo that brought the world Skype and Kazaa, have chosen a name that is also 5-letter words for their new online-video start-up. According to an article from the cnet, they chose Joost because they like the ring of it. However, some blogs I read are all wondering why they have changed its original name from theveniceproject to Joost. These people are worried that the name changed would affected the goodwill that the venice project built for the past months. My own view is: When I looked back all the three companies the duo built for the past years, they tend to used the “5-letter words” as their new venture’s name. I’m thinking whether they tend to believed that 5-letter words does bring their new venture the luck factor. In today’s world, I know it’s childish and absolutely ridiculous to make a comment on this, but it’s still no harm if they selected a shorter name as the final name for their dot com startup and since most of the well-established players such as sun, google, hp, msn, ask, just to name a few, they all have a short name. Frankly, it’s regret to say that I did not have a chance to meet them face-to-face, or I should say I really did not know much of the successful entrepreneurs in the IT sector. But if I could meet them and get a chance to have a small talk with them in the future, the first question I likely to ask is whether the 5-letter words really bring them luck? [...]