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October 15, 2006
Janus Friis Is So Money
Kazaa and Skype co-founder Janus Friis still checks in at Skype, but he is transitioning to his next project, code-named Venice, according to his blog. We doubt he will struggle to raise funding for this. A son of Copenhagan, Fris is not forthcoming on Venice but says that it concerns the marriage of TV and the net and leaves it at that.
Euroman Janus Friis
Expains Friis: "It’s simple, really — we are trying to bring together the best of TV with the best of the Internet. We think TV is one of the most powerful, engaging mass medias of all time. People love TV, but they also hate TV. They love the (sometimes…) amazing storytelling, the richness, the quality itself. But they hate the linearness, the lack of choice, the lack of basic things like being able to search. And wholly missing is everything that we are now accustomed to from the Internet: tagging, recommendations, choice, and so on… TV is 507 channels and nothing on and we want to help change that!"
Posted on October 15, 2006 10:46 PM | Posted to Interactive TV | Permalink
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