Logicbank Media

Joost™ is a new way to watch TV, free of the schedules and restrictions that come with traditional television.  Combining the best of TV with the best of the internet, Joost™ gives you more control and freedom than ever before - control over what you watch, and freedom to watch it whenever you like.  We’re providing a platform for the best television content on the planet - a platform that will bring you the biggest and best shows from the TV studios, as well as the specialist programs created by professionals and enthusiasts.  It’s all overlaid with a raft of nifty features that help you find the shows you love, watch and chat with friends, and even create your own TV channels.  Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis have been talking about the idea behind Joost™ for a long time - even before their last venture, Skype, was born.  But to make it work, they needed the right combination of factors - widespread broadband and powerful computers in particular.  In early 2006, the time was right.  Gathering the world’s best engineers, web gurus and media visionaries, they started work under the code name of The Venice Project™ - and now, after much fretting and polishing, that work is ready for public viewing.

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Today, the company formerly known under the code name The Venice Project has revealed its official brand, “Joost™.”  Currently available in private beta testing, Joost combines the best of TV and the best of the Internet by offering viewers a unique, TV-like experience enhanced with the choice, control and flexibility of Web 2.0.  Co-founded by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, Joost fills a critical gap in the online video entertainment arena.  Joost is powered by a secure, efficient, piracy-proof Internet platform that enables premium interactive video experiences while guaranteeing copyright protection for content owners and creators.  “People are looking for increased choice and flexibility in their TV experience, while the entertainment industry needs to retain control over their content,” said Fredrik de Wahl, chief executive officer of Joost….  Joost is the first global TV distribution platform, bringing together advertisers, content owners and viewers in an interactive, community-driven environment….  “We’ve received positive and constructive feedback from our early beta-testers and are now at a stage where we’re ready to reveal our true brand,” said de Wahl.  “The Joost name has global appeal, embodies fun and energy, and will come to define the ‘best of TV and the best of the Internet’”.  Joost™ provides a new way of watching TV that combines the best of full-screen television entertainment with online interactive and community benefits to bring an unprecedented selection of video content to viewers anytime, anywhere.

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About 30% of the pageviews on the fast-growing new-media newspaper company Topix.net come from community comments.

The figure tells you something about what the Internet generation wants to consume online.

It’s not so much the aggregated or licensed content, or even the original content that’s king anymore. User-generated content is king.

In the Internet era, it’s not about [...]

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ABC News reports on social networking phenomenon MySpace.com this week.  The site has lured advertisers, including Studios and Film Companies, largely due to the incredible metrics (traffic and stickiness) and demographic profile of its users.  Reports now suggest that the sites metrics have been grossly overstated.

“Certainly there are a large amount of people spending a [...]

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Online film and video game company  AtomShockwave is set to announce the launch of a online video aggregation service AddictingClips.com.

The website maintains a directory of online video content, including short films, interesting commercials, and user generated content.  While the site currently doesn’t include any of its own content AtomShockwave intends to host user generated short videos.

At launch the site is believed to contain more than 1,000 links and appears to be closely modeled after AtomShockwave’s recent acquisition online game aggregator AddictingGames.com.  At the time of the acquisition, AtomShockwave announced that: (continued)

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