Mr. Niklas Zennstrom, the Swedish guy, yes Mr. Zennstrom is about to rock the world once again. Some memories came to you? well Mr. Zennstrom is the 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.
Joost is the new company Mr. Zennstrom is working on, came to the public just a few days ago, before know as the Venice Project, is creating the buzz around Silicon Valley, and putting many TV Companies with the intentions of joining the internet, what exactly Mr. Zennstrom is building? at this point may be very hard to define, and it’s functionality a secret maybe, there are many speculations getting their way around, however nothing concrete just yet.
With the creation of Kazaa at the early stage of the Internet, a completely different way to host and share information online came alive, and skepticism was the only welcome that Silicon Valley offer to Mr. Zennstrom. Years later Skype came along, another amazing vanguard point of view on how to bring telephony business into the web, and yes a $2.6 billion success.
Joost, welcome to the humans technology world! and Mr. Zennstrom, please do your thing again, and let us enjoy another of your successes.
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Craig$list.com, Friend or Foe?
Many of us have had listened, and in fact post or search for classifieds in the very popular website craigslist.org a very useful internet tool for the small guy, and inclusive to the small business owners.
Once upon in a time when to advertise the smallest item, the human kind paid a fortune for it.
The world is changing, we all are experimenting the terminology, and reach of the word global. Hollywood, Television, and Media industry are against youtube.com there are great bloggers that are making shake the Media, and Technology developers. The Music industry is shaking with the internet. Indeed the News Papers industry after doing, charging, and controlling the local media for very long, yet is it time to adapt. Advertiser are definitely not ignorant that they reach more audience going global than local.
And yes, FREE!
I may never change the fact of reading the news paper, and enjoy a delightful well done article in a Sunday while enjoying my morning coffee, yet if i look for classifieds, craigslist will definitely be my first option.
A very resourceful article by Ryan Blitstein, SF Weekly.