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An inside look at the Venice Project

the venice projectEveryone is dying to find out what the founder of Skype's latest project called the Venice Project is all about, and trying their hardest to get a peek into what it's all about. Well it's finally out, in beta form of course--a very limited beta, it seems. Om Malik caught an inside look into the much-anticipated disruptive P2P television application which fits in nicely with Janus and Niklas' free music and free phone offerings. Venice is a desktop application working exclusively on Windows XP SP2, and takes approximately one minute to download on a high speed connection. While Om reports that the photo quality of the site is incredible, and issues that once seemed to be present are now non existent, switching channels or menu options in the application saw a rather large delay. With the giant success of both KaZaA and Skype, I wonder how many media companies will jump on the bandwagon with this offering? Between KaZaA and Skype, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom sure know how to turn an industry on their backs. Take a look at some screen shots at GigaOM.

Filed under: Video, P2P

Skype founders' Venice Project revealed

The Venice ProjectAccording to BusinessWeek, Skype co-founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom are preparing to launch The Venice Project, a new start-up that "combines the best things about television with the social power of the internet." Venice--which is just a codename--has been in very limited testing since the summer, but the beta program will expand significantly in November, and Friis says it will be available to everyone by the end of the year. They're currently courting small and large media and TV companies to put their full-length content on the network, which will be accessed through a stand-alone app and work on P2P technology just like KaZaA and Skype. It will have built-in intellectual property controls and will stream media rather than download it, which BusinessWeek naively assumes "makes it much more difficult for users to make, distribute, or sell illegal copies of the content that they watch." At the uber-austere Venice Project web site you can sign up for their mailing list which, presumably, will notify you when that expanded beta program starts.

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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