You must have heard the long time stealth Internet TV project called The Venice Project.
The buzz about the new product of the creators of popular file sharing program KaZaA and Skype is very loud.
Today it was announced that The Venice Project will be called Joost from now on. Janus Friis points out that while this name means nothing at the moment, “it will come to mean great quality Internet TV the way it should be”. We will see if this will be the case in the future.
I had the chance to play with the new initiative as an early beta tester. It is based on peer-to-peer technology and I must say the viewing experience was satisfactory for considering the project in its beta phase.
However, at the moment, I think the problem is more important and complex than the technology that brings us the Internet TV. It is the content. Unfortunately, there is not a lot of content to watch. Besides, if the direction is to bring big media content in form of Internet TV, it is not going to make any different. The trick would be able to get user generated content and be a great alternative to television.
The software contains some social aspects like chatting with other viewers of a channel and so on. If there is more content, Joost may be a good platform for interactive Internet TV experience.
You may also follow NewTeeVee’s coverage of Joost which was then called The Venice Project from here.
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