Just last month, Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom revealed they were working on an Internet-based broadband television service dubbed “The Venice Project.” The idea is to provide high-quality television programming via the Internet, and have the whole thing be supported by advertising—and this be free to users. The global platform would support copyright protection for content owners, while integrating “Web 2.0″ technologies like tagging and community-driven interactivity.
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Skype Founders Confirm IPTV Service Test
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.
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