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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (18942)	1/17/2007 8:26:35 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

What is Babelgum? Babelgum ushers in a new era for television, blending the lean-back experience of traditional TV with the interactive and social power of the Internet. -Watch in full screen Babelgum uses cutting-edge peer-to-peer technology to stream video to your PC safely and efficiently at near-TV resolution. -Make it personal Create your own TV channels with niche-to-mainstream content from around the world tailored to your interests. As you use it, your TV learns what you like and just gets better. -Share your views Discover new content through friends, contacts and people with shared interests, and tell others about the content you love or hate. Babelgum is creating a whole new medium for viewers, content owners and advertisers. So keep your eyes wide open. babelgum.com Help test Babelgum (as a beta tester): babelgum.com ------

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (18942)	1/17/2007 8:35:31 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Why Joost Is Good for TV By Spencer Reiss \| Wired Jan, 17, 2007 In a 10th-floor office a few block south of New York's Union Square, gangly Janus Friis folds himself into an undersize chair. He's here from London for a couple of days, toting a ThinkPad with demo aboard. A little white sticker on the machine's lid reads in retro-shiny silver letters: THE VENICE PROJECT. Friis, 30, is half of the most feared digital tag team since Google's Sergey Brin and Larry Page marched across the Net. He's the visionary, a shy Dane in beat-up jeans and loud shirts. Niklas ZennstrÃ¶m, an amiable 40-year-old Swede, wears the suit. Together, the pair has spent the past six years bit-bombing the Net's biggest and most vulnerable targets. Kazaa, their free file-sharing network, mushroomed amid the wreckage of the original Napster; it was managing 3 million downloads a month in 2001 when entertainment industry lawyers moved in. Next they built Skype, the free voice-over-IP telephone system, and sold it to eBay just over a year ago for $2.6 billion. That figure alone guarantees that their calls get returned. [...] Friis, whose role in Skype is mainly advisory, plays his part to the hilt, too: director of disruption. "YouTube, Google, Skype -- we're transforming whole industries into layers of software and making them more powerful at the same time. Before, it took a huge investment to reach a big audience -- transmitters and studios and satellite links. Now you can just be Lonelygirl15." The mind-bender is that, once upon a time, the Net was supposed to kill television. Now two of the Net's boldest entrepreneurs are trying to reinvent television. And not just broadcast technology but the user interface, the ads, the whole experience. Television perfected! [...] Continued: wired.com Developments in this space are occurring rapid-fire. Note in the chart below the absence of "Babelgum," which was the subject of my previous post. Also, the NetFlix streaming option that was released two days ago is likewise missing. One wonders how many other platforms are sitting on a perch, waiting to be released. From one of the thumbnails in the article above: ------