Gizmodo: venice project

Venice Project is Now Joost. Huh?

Charlie White — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:48:50 EST

The Venice Project has been underway for a while, and its proprietors are busy figuring out an easy way to bring TV to you over the Internet. Now they've gone and changed their name to Joost, and invite you to download a beta copy of its software that attempts to provide the best of both the Internet and TV worlds. While we test this Beta we're trying to get invited to, let's have a poll!

We'll have more about Joost as we experience it first-hand. Stay tuned. – Charlie White

Product Page [Joost]

Japanese Digitally-Counted Breast Bounce Contest: NSFW and Proof Why We Need the Venice Project

Brian Lam — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:49:34 EST

Chen and Om like the Venice Project video service's concept: Use a P2P system to support bigger, faster, higher quality downloads. Here's proof why we need this, like, yesterday.

This video of a breast bouncing contest, where two well-endowed, bikini clad women face off to see who's got more bounce. The contestants warm up with a catwalk, then a hop, and then get onto a platform carried by a dozen Japanese men. The score is counted by a digital readout — two per girl, naturally. The 7-minute clip is hosted on youtube. And it just doesn't download fast enough.

Unlike Chen, I think that YouTube can beat the venice project if they get a flash embedded p2p client for their player. Please. Quickly. –Brian Lam

P.S. Spoiler: Blue takes the win at 2941 digitally-counted bounces.
Venice Project Hands On: This Is Going To Kill YouTube [Gizmodo]

Venice Project Hands On: This Is Going To Kill YouTube

Jason Chen — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:00:18 EST

The guys who brought you KaZaA and Skype are at it again, and their upcoming Venice Project Peer to Peer streaming will show YouTube how video is really done. Just like KaZaA was a disruptive force in music sharing, and Skype was a disruptive force for phone calls, the Venice Project will kill current online video sharing and TV streaming sites.

So how can the Venice Project demolish what is essentially the biggest video site on the internet? Two reasons: the founder's track record, and the state of the Venice Project now.

Janus and Niklas know peer to peer. They know exactly how to make it work to meet a singular need. And from the quality of both the video and the speed of the streaming, they've done a superb job with the Venice Project as well. It's definitely no contest when you compare this to the blurriness of YouTube and other streaming sites.

Do people care how the data is getting from the host to them? No. That's exactly why peer to peer will definitely win over a centralized, YouTube approach. By cutting down on bandwidth costs (they're mostly from the users), the Venice Project can have much higher quality video. Just like with Skype, what do people care that their call or video is going through Zimbabwe before getting to them? The only thing that's important is that the quality is there, and the content is there. All that the Venice Project needs now is content. – Jason Chen

Inside The Venice Project [Giga Om]