Wired News: Why Joost Is Good for TV

Wired News: Why Joost Is Good for TV: "In a 10th-floor office a few block south of New York's Union Square, gangly Janus Friis folds himself into an undersize chair. He's here from London for a couple of days, toting a ThinkPad with demo aboard. A little white sticker on the machine's lid reads in retro-shiny silver letters: THE VENICE PROJECT.

Friis, 30, is half of the most feared digital tag team since Google's Sergey Brin and Larry Page marched across the Net. He's the visionary, a shy Dane in beat-up jeans and loud shirts. Niklas Zennström, an amiable 40-year-old Swede, wears the suit. Together, the pair has spent the past six years bit-bombing the Net's biggest and most vulnerable targets. Kazaa, their free file-sharing network, mushroomed amid the wreckage of the original Napster; it was managing 3 million downloads a month in 2001 when entertainment industry lawyers moved in. Next they built Skype, the free voice-over-IP telephone system, and sold it to eBay just over a year ago for $2.6 billion. That figure alone guarantees that their calls get returned."