Kazaa, Skype, and now “The Venice Project”

Skype co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis are at it again. After disrupting the music and voice cartel’s operations, the duo is taking on television. It shouldn’t come as a surprise.
Business Week has dug-up more details on the company, which has hired software engineers in nearly six major cities. So far, it seems the project, dubbed, The Venice Project, has been funded by eBay millions that lined the dynamic duo’s pockets.
Via: Om Malik
JumpTV on Joost — Coming Soon
According to AP, a deal to be announced Friday with global video carrier JumpTV will bring international television channels to Joost, the still-in-development Internet TV platform from the influential creators of Skype and Kazaa.
Joost has been signing several contracts to carry video for media publishers, most notably a pact reached
Skype Launches New Prime Beta
Via the Skype Developers Journal:
In short, it enables paid Skype-to-Skype voice and video calls. You can charge other people for calling you either a one-off fee or by the minute. Conversely, if you are the caller, you can call experts who charge for their services, and you can then pay
Have (no) Money (but) Will (wanna) Vlog?
HMWV is a brand new experiment in community capitalism. For the cost of a movie ticket you can sponsor a vlogger and help them produce content that is not usually seen in mainstream media. The way it works is that HMWV acts as a gateway to fundable.com, and is
Stanford Technology Ventures Video Programs
The Stanford Technology Ventures Program Educators Corner has a free online video archive of entrepreneurship resources for teaching and learning. The mission of the project is to support and encourage faculty around the world who teach entrepreneurship to future scientists and engineers, as well as those in management and other
Internet Comic Bringing Home the Bacon
It has been more than a year and a half since Internet prankster Hu Ge achieved overnight fame for the Web clip, "A Murder Sparked by a Chinese Bun." The popular 20-minute video produced by easy video software was a parody of the farfetched storyline of filmmaker then Kaige's kung
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Daily Show to Open Web Video Archive
Viacom is set to unveil a new site that will include 13,000 video clips of its popular "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," representing every minute of the show since its 1999 inception.. wOOt!
To prepare for the site launch, 16 Comedy Central writers and video encoders have worked two shifts
Video Active to Build EU TV Database
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WallStrip – What CNBC is Watching
The popular daily Vlog WallStrip.com is on a tear lately with this man on the street style interview with some guy - aka CNBC's Anchor Dylan Ratigan - 'oops' (staged?). The upstart project, with some decent funding now, also got a nice little write-up in the NYT on friday.
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