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December 21, 2006
Euro Contenders For Peer-to-Peer Video And TV
Technology Review has a feature on P2P video, mentioning a couple of the European enablers and early entrants, such as live P2P broadcasting firm Octoshape (backed by IVS and Nordic Venture Partners), Tribler (a Dutch university project), and CacheLogic (backed by Pentech, Amadeus, 3i ) which sells networking equipment optimized for managing P2P data.
The article leads with news about Bittorrent's acquisiton of μTorrent (microtorrent), a compact Bittorrent client, which actually adds a European angle to Bittorrent's future success as microtorrent belongs to a Swedish computer programmer named Ludvig Strigeus. (That deal also opens up the question that if microtorrent was good enough for Bittorrent to acquire, why didn't the project attract an enterprising VC to it.)
There is no mention of the Skype founder-backed Venice Project, now running a closed beta trial - the closed aspect may explain why it wasn't in there as the reporter only talked about what he could look at.
The Venice Project Blog Led Us To This Screenshot
We'll be keeping an eye on the region's VCs to see if they can actually catalyze (and capitalize) these ventures and some of the others that are emerging to create a market leader.
Read - Technology Review: P2P: From Internet Scourge to Savior (technology review)
Read - P2P Streaming Goes Live (a:c euro)
Read - Variations On Bittorrent From Tribler Peerfactor (a:c euro)
Posted on December 21, 2006 10:17 AM | Posted to Media | Permalink
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