Filed under: Business, Internet, Video, Windows, Web services, P2P
An inside look at the Venice Project
by Chris Gilmer Dec 21st 2006
Everyone 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.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
