Paradoxically, one thing Zennström and Friis don’t particularly want is user-generated content. That’s partly tactical, a way to differentiate their new baby from YouTube. But they’ve also learned—the hard way—about the risks of letting the aud
The Venice Project runs on a media streaming library the company has nick named Anthill. The company uses a H.264 codec licensed from CoreCodec, a US-based company, much in the manner Global IP Sound provided the voice codecs for Skype.
Do people care how the data is getting from the host to them? No. That's exactly why peer to peer will definitely win over a centralized, YouTube approach. By cutting down on bandwidth costs (they're mostly from the users), the Venice Project can have muc
To sum up, very bad interface, no text description of what the buttons mean, quality of video goes up and down very much, not really much better than a good flash file that you size up 250%.
We are in the process of launching a secure P2P streaming technology that allows content owners to bring TV-quality video and ease of use to a TV-sized audience mixed with all the wonders of the Internet. All content on The Venice platform is provided by
These would-be video moguls also face fierce competition from deeper-pocketed tech rivals, including Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN ) and Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL ) Consolidation is inevitable.
