ich denke, wenn die Kazaa- und Skype-Gründer was neues starten, darf man ruhig darauf hinweisen, auch wenn man wenig weiß bisher und das Projekt superjung ist. Es nennt sich Venice Project. Was soll das sein? Om Malik hat auf seinem bekannten GigaCom-Blog die beiden Superstar-Gründer Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis interviewt, u.a.:
Om Malik: What is The Venice Project? Janus Friis: Television is the most powerful mass medium, and we are trying to do is marry the best of television with the best of internet. What people love about the television is the story telling. What people don’t like is television that is locked in linear time. We want to try and preserve the best bits of television, and discard bits people don’t care for.
People like the freedom of choice and like freedom from choice. For example, channels are good, because they define the content. Today, the channels are locked in legacy infrastructure, but on broadband the channels are not locked in time.
That’s what the Venice Project is doing. What we have done is created a streaming P2P platform for television. This is a platform, which is good for content owners, for advertisers and of course the viewers. Since there are no borders on the Internet, this is a global platform. Sometimes we think content owners have legal reasons to restrict content locally and the technology allows them to do that.
Erst mischen sie die Musikbranche auf, dann die Telcos und nun die mächtige TV-Branche. Man könnte wohl den beiden ruhig den Ehrentitel „Disrupting Entrepreneurs“ zusprechen. Ich bin gespannt. Zutrauen tue ich denen mittlerweile alles. Nur Eines gibt mir zu denken: Venedig wurde auf… richtig… gebaut!
via Digitaler Film
