Venice Project prepares for public beta

Venice Project prepares for public beta

The Venice Project is a peer-to-peer video delivery service under development by Skype co-founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom.

It is now nearing a public beta launch a posting on the site by CEO Fredrik de Wahl said: “We’re finally there. This morning we’ve completed the last version of the software prior to sending out the ‘big beta’ – which marks the start of getting thousands and thousands of people on the platform in an invitation style manner. While we’re still in the beta phase, we feel like we now have a strong proof of concept as we continue to build and enhance the platform….So next step will be to extend beta test invitations to a much larger group, by providing our current beta testers with tokens to invite others to participate.”

The website describes this service as: “In essence the various journalists got the story almost exactly right: we’re fixing TV; removing artificial limits such as the number of channels that your cable or the airwaves can carry and then bringing it into the Internet age; adding community features, interactivity, etc.”