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Venice Project becomes Joost PDF Print E-mail
Written by Stuart Corner   
Tuesday, 16 January 2007
The Venice Project, a streaming video service being developed by Skype co-founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom  which has been in Beta for several months, has got its official name: Joost, and a new snazzy website: www.joost.com.



Announcing the latest development, CEO Fredrik de Wahl, said: "While we're still in beta, we hope that Joost will become synonymous with the best of TV and the best of the Web. We're working on putting more content on the platform and creating more and more applications and functionality. For those of you who've already been [in the beta trial], you can expect to see some of these updates in the 0.8 release - which is not far away at all."

The number invited to participate in the beta trial has been very limited to date, but de Wahl promised: "We're going to be sending out many more beta invitations...We've been somewhat conservative about expanding our beta - but that's going to change pretty rapidly now."

And the original name? in a posting on the company's blog site, de Wahl revealed all: "There was a lot of speculation about why we were called The Venice Project in the first place. The truth is admittedly slightly less intriguing than the mystery. The 'Venice' of The Venice Project is not that of gondolas and canals. It's not Venice Beach, California. It's not even related to the movie. Our 'Venice' was simply the name of the hotel conference room where we first decided to start this venture...At that point we really just needed a name."{moscomment}


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