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The big boys of Viacom have teamed up with the bad boys of disruption, Joost in what must have been the slap heard around the cyber world when they announced that they were allowing the rebels of the web to distribute their content online. Hundreds of hours of programming from Viacom's MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures movies studio and BET Networks will be available to Joost users for free.
Viacom's embrace of Joost less than three weeks after it asked YouTube to take down more than 100,000 videos signals that the spat between YouTube owner Google and Viacom is more than serious. It also seems like Viacom is getting the jump on others in its quest to find the edge over other entertainment companies.
The deal between Viacom and Zennström and Friis, the creators of Joost, comes not only to a shock to YouTube but to a lot of insiders because Zennström and Friis are famous or infamous for disrupting traditional industries. After the demise of Napster, a program written by the duo called Kazaa let people exchange pirated music over peer-to-peer networks. Zennström and Friis then followed up by creating Skype, which lets people place free phone calls from anywhere in the world. Zennström currently serves as chief executive of Skype, now owned by eBay. Friis is Skype's executive vice president of innovation. They are running Joost as a virtual company, with engineers and other employees in five countries.
Looks like YouTube might be YouScrewed.
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| yiyi | Veoh, better than YouTube! | 0 | Apr 16 2007, 5:14 AM EDT by yiyi | ||
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Personally, I don't really find Youtube that friendly to use because if I need to watch a program that lasts about 1 hour, I will have to watch in 10 divided segements since YouTube only allows the maximum about 10 or so minutes for each uploaded online videos. Recently, I found the website that let the user to watch online videos in hour series which really saves people the time of stopping every 10 minutes and researching it or clicking it over and over again. The website is www.veoh.com , check this site out...pretty nice to use.
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| mssjay | Surprise, Surprise!! | 0 | Mar 14 2007, 1:03 PM EDT by mssjay | ||
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What's HOT now, will definitely not be HOT in two years. It is not at all surprising that YouTube may be going down the tube as I expected something innovative to replace and take over the phenomenon. Same goes for MySpace as some would argue it sky rocketed over friendster and facebook and soon something else will send MySpace into Space. In this On-demand generation, the market gets bored frequently and seeks new and improved avenues to channel its boredom. Joost may be one avenue for the market, as I'm sure more are soon to follow.
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