First Rdio screenshots leaked
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By admin on Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 (Joost, Kazaa, Rdio, Skype)

Skype founders start music store Rdio and face the Kazaa blasphemyReadwriteweb.com have gotten their hands on leaked screenshots from the Blackberry application of Rdio, the forthcoming music app from Skype, KaZaA and Joost creators Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. The on-demand streaming service music site similar to Spotify is currently being tested by a very small number of people and that’s where the leaked screenshots emerge from. Check them at Readwriteweb.com.

The service will offer a desktop client, a Blackberry application, an iPhone app and a web interface. Users will be able to control their community dashboard, listen to playlists, find other music in heavy rotation and stream collections. Good to know, the application offers mobile playlist caching like Spotify’s iPhone app and MOG’s upcoming service.

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Skype founders start music store Rdio and face the Kazaa blasphemy
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By admin on Thursday, October 15th, 2009 (Kazaa, Rdio, Skype)
While their other child Joost is taking a deep endless dive, Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis (Kazaa, Skype, Joost and JoltId) have set up and funded a new music startup, Rdio, the NYTimes reports. Although the website for the company has only a logo for the moment and a signup form (they actually also hold www.rd.io next to the dotcom so Techcrunch found out), the NYTimes reported that Rdio (with offices in both Los Angeles and San Francisco) will offer a paid subscription-based music consumption and purchasing platform for both PCs and mobile phones… and not a (p2p) radio unlike what its name suggests. Rdio would leave the incubation closet early next year.
Rdio is in the process of securing the extensive catalogue of major players from the recording industry. So what you’ll think, so many other services have done that. Well, things are a bit different when it comes to Friis and Zennström. The duo was behind the creation of that notorious, buggy and malware infested, illegal p2p echange service Kazaa and some label bosses still get cold sweat attacks when their names get mentioned.
On a sidenote, did anyone notice that every company that these two have started ended up being a big miss when it came to monetising the whole AFTER the initial sale? I wouldn’t count too much on it that it won’t be different this time.

Skype founders start music store Rdio and face the Kazaa blasphemyWhile their other child Joost is taking a deep endless dive, Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis (Kazaa, Skype, Joost and JoltId) have set up and funded a new music startup, Rdio, the NYTimes reports. Although the website for the company has only a logo for the moment and a signup form (they actually also hold www.rd.io next to the dotcom so Techcrunch found out), the NYTimes reported that Rdio (with offices in both Los Angeles and San Francisco) will offer a paid subscription-based music consumption and purchasing platform for both PCs and mobile phones… and not a (p2p) radio unlike what its name suggests. Rdio would leave the incubation closet early next year.

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Video company Joost UK goes Titanic – no social killing field left
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By admin on Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 (Joost, Kazaa)
The video company Joost heads for the deadpool mode to paraphrase our Techcrunch buddies. Joost, co-founded by Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, will put its UK subsidiary into liquidation at the beginning of this month. The company has failed to sustain a significant share of the internet video industry and was unable to address this effectively through a re-positioning of its services. Curator gobbledygook to say that it just wasn’t popular enough. Techcrunch even learned that the office furniture of Joost UK Limited has apparently already found its way to that other London based startup, Songkick.
Not that Joost UK will leave a social killingfield. The company all in all had something like 20 employees end of July 2009. Joost has been suffering financial problems for quite some time due to the increased competition, on top it failed like so many other video/audio streaming services modeled around advertising to actually generate enough revenue.
Deadpooling will be the future for Joost as there is no reason why Joost would do any better outside the UK. A pity about the user db though, it could give some services that well needed push forward. Spotify anyone?

Video company Joost UK goes Titanic - no social killing field leftThe video company Joost heads for the deadpool mode to paraphrase our Techcrunch buddies. Joost, co-founded by Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, will put its UK subsidiary into liquidation at the beginning of this month. The company has failed to sustain a significant share of the internet video industry and was unable to address this effectively through a re-positioning of its services. Curator gobbledygook to say that it just wasn’t popular enough. Techcrunch even learned that the office furniture of Joost UK Limited has apparently already found its way to that other London based startup, Songkick.

Not that Joost UK will leave a social killingfield. The company all in all had something like 20 employees end of July 2009. Joost has been suffering financial problems for quite some time due to the increased competition, on top it failed like so many other video/audio streaming services modeled around advertising to actually generate enough revenue.

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