Joost

Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis are developing a webtv platform, Joost. The guys behind the popular voip program Skype promise to bring:

“a new way of watching TV on the internet, which uses new and established technologies to provide the best of both the internet and TV worlds. Joost uses secure peer-to-peer technology to stream programmes to your computer. Unlike other TV and video-based web applications, it does not require users to download any files to their computers or browse through complicated websites.”

The developers also announce the striving for a real TV-like experience, including adverts. Whilst most internet users might not be waiting for ads in video streams, this might give Joost the edge over Youtube and Myspace, both struggling with the copyright industries. A platform generating enough revenue by ads might convince the mayors to start releasing premium content on the net. I for one look forward to this.

~ by kristofn on March 15, 2007.