Friday, January 19, 2007

Wonder What The Finns Are Watching Tonight?

Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom have had a pretty remarkable career as Internet entrepreneurs. Skype and Kazaa are both startups of theirs. EBay bought the former for $2.5 billion in 2005, so they have enough seed money to try another big online idea.

And so they have. Joost is an Internet television startup that is intended to bring global programming to anyone with broadband access.

But what kind of programming would people watch on a worldwide basis? One MC101 suggested a reality show where the participants are from different countries, including some that don't get along with one another.

Starting point for this medianote was a Yahoo! News article.

Gabcast! Club MediaNote #7

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