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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (19034)	1/24/2007 6:24:26 AM
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Move Over Silicon Valley, Here Come European Start-Ups By JOHN MARKOFF \| January 24, 2007 \| NY Times [The Internet, which was largely pioneered by startups in Silicon Valley, is now seen responsible for disrupting Silicon Valley!] MUNICH, Jan. 23 — A technology and media conference being held here this week provided ample evidence that Silicon Valley’s dominance of Internet-style technology innovation is waning. The gathering, Digital Life Design, has become a showcase for a range of European entrepreneurs who have taken the start-up culture pioneered in Silicon Valley as a template and are successfully transplanting it here. The star of this year’s event was Niklas Zennstrom, the Swedish co-founder of the file-sharing system Kazaa and the Internet telephony company Skype, which was sold to eBay for $2.6 billion in 2005. Mr. Zennstrom last week took the wraps off a previously secretive start-up, Joost, that intends to provide a peer-to-peer approach to distributing video online. “We’re trying to take the good things about television and the good things about the Internet and put them together,” he said. Like many participants here, Mr. Zennstrom voiced the opinion that Internet-based commerce would accelerate in its disruptive effect on traditional businesses. Skype, for example, now says that it carries 4.4 percent of all worldwide long-distance calling. Continued at: nytimes.com ------

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (19034)	1/28/2007 4:13:30 AM
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Kyte.tv Aims for Set-Top Boxes Jan 26, 2007 For now, it's an Internet video play, but decentral.tv , the startup that's gotten a hand from the founders of Skype Ltd. , could someday be gunning for the big-screen TV. Kyte.tv, the company's video service, has been under wraps and is still only in beta testing. But Daniel Graf, a founder of decentral.tv, gave Light Reading an outline of what kyte is doing and might eventually do. Kyte provides tools to create broadcast channels that can be played on a Website, particularly social networking sites (MySpace) and blogging sites (Blogger). Channels can also be viewed on mobile phones that have the kyte viewer software on board. Kyte's tools include an IM application so that producer and audience can chat during the broadcasts. The content for the channels would be the usual -- video and images shot with cell phone cameras or grabbed from the Web. Continued at: lightreading.com ------

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (19034)	1/29/2007 3:37:08 AM
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Joost Another YouTube? Joost could become a major distribution channel for television--if it can overcome a few practical problems. By Brendan Borrell \| Jan 29, 2007 \| MIT Technology Review Skype cofounders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis want to turn the Internet into a global television distribution platform, where users switch between shows almost as quickly as they can change the channel on a standard TV. The system, called Joost, is currently in beta testing and could be released to the public in a matter of months. But it's hard to understand how Joost will fit into a streaming multimedia world populated by the likes of YouTube, Netflix, and even your local cable company. "We're taking the next logical step in television," says Joost chief technology officer Dirk-Willem van Gulik. Joost, he says, combines the best parts of the television experience with the best parts of the Internet. It's more than a fancy way to transfer files. The zippy, full-screen broadcasts and the browser allow users to change channels, search content, and receive recommendation lists. Eventually, the Joost browser will even allow software developers to create their own plug-ins. The service is free, and it's supported by one minute of targeted advertisements per hour. Internet protocol television--IPTV--has been on the minds of developers since the early days of the Web. Last March, CBS's webcast of the NCAA final-four tournament drew a record 250,000 simultaneous viewers. But 140,000 people were left in a digital waiting room, says Hui Zhang, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. Continued at: technologyreview.com ------