Following the $4.1 billion sale of Skype to online auction giant eBay in 2005, Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom invested part of the money in developing “The Venice Project,” an idea for a broadband television service for computers…and quietly went to work. Soon, the wait may be over: a spokesperson for Friis and Zennstrom has confirmed that a private beta test of the product was launched last week, with some 6,000 users already testing the service.
According to Janus Friis’s blog, The Venice Project has been in low-key testing for a few months; the private beta marks the first expansion to a larger scale.
