Venice Project Aims For TV/Web Convergence

PreacherTom writes, "The founders of Skype, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, are offering a sneak peak into their newest venture, The Venice Project, a video site that combines professionally produced TV and user-submitted videos with the interactive tools of Web 2.0. So, what will Venice offer to combat YouTube's dominance? Streaming video with DVD-like controls, on-screen menus of preset channels, and interactive tools to share video playlists are only the beginning. Venice's Beta will be expanded by the middle of November, with general release by New Year's Day." The article notes that "Venice" is a placeholder name and that the project will launch with new branding.

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Eben Moglen Quote

[Mateo_LeFou]

I love this so much:

"You don't know what the world you're living in is going to be like but you can guess some things about it: there will be no music companies in it."

*also, with any luck, no -- or fewer -- TV companies

"Now if you leave them alone to buy more congressmen, in this very corrupt time of ours, they will survive for a little while longer but all of this talk is about the technicalities of the adjustment of the terms of their demise. When we want to start talking about something that matters, we would do better to begin from some basic social propositions. Everybody is connected to everybody else, all data that can be shared will be shared: get used to it."

http://ciaran.compsoc.com/texts/eben-moglen-dmca-a nd-you.html

Democracy TV

[booch]

Streaming video with DVD-like controls, on-screen menus of preset channels, and interactive tools to share video playlists are only the beginning.

Oh, you mean like Democracy TV already has?