Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Posted by Roberto
9:09 AM
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JOOST
THE LOGICAL SUCCESSOR TO KAZAA AND SKYPE
Entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, who built and sold two of the most viral and disruptive products in the history of the Internet, Skype ($2.6 billion to eBay Inc. in 2005) and Kazaa, just unveiled the brand name and details of their latest project: a new Internet-based television service called Joost.
Joost, like Skype, requires users to download free software. In this case, the program will help them browse the Internet for channels and clips they're interested in, rather than make phone calls. Chief Executive Fredrik de Wahl said in a telephone interview that the company has deals with Warner Music, "Bridezillas" producer September Films and "Big Brother" creator Endemol NV, among others, but plans to make content deals globally as the service grows.
Technically, Joost's users will contribute some of their bandwidth to sharing video streams at the same time they download them for viewing, making it possible for the company to broadcast to a large audience from just a few computer servers distributed around the world.
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