Venice Project gets a New Name

From today no longer should one say "The Venice Project". Rather, the new service has been given the new and official name Joost.

(Personally, I liked the old name better. But that's neither here nor there.)

Joost has been getting a second round of coverage in the techie media this week, including Wired's rather good profile of the service and its founders, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström. The gist of the article is that Joost is good for TV because it provides two elements that are key for making the transition from broadcast TV to TV over the Net: a reliable and efficient P2P delivery platform, and full security/copyright protection.

I've been playing around with it a bit this week and hope to have a more in-depth posting on the service soon. Initial reaction: As far as an Internet-TV service, it's almost there. The UI is not where it needs to be, and the content is a little music video-heavy for my personal taste. I would hope that Janus and Niklas manage to resolve both quibbles before Joost is ready for prime time.

And, for everyone who has been asking, I don't really have any invites to give out at the moment. Sorry.

Comments

[Pedro Moutinho]

I love to have one invitation for Joost.
You don't have some extra please?
Thanks
pmmout[at]gmail[dot]com