Om has a post yesterday and another one today about The Venice Project and FON.
What is very interesting here is how Skype founders were able to develop Venice while they were full time at Skype, but not have the intellectual property part of the Skype sale to eBay. This makes no sense, as most due diligence phases would have made sure that this could not happen. Given how much money was involved, over 2 billion dollars now, and more later, one would think that a move like this never would have happened.
What's more the JoltID technology is also part of this. If I recall correctly, JoltID technology is one of the items referenced in the StreamCast vs. Skype lawsuit.
I'm sure the VC's are just laughing all the way to the bank, and making investments in companies like FON that could work with both Skype and Venice.
Alec Saunders thinks Venice will be under water soon.
Has anyone heard of this company called Damaka, it looks like they have a peer to peer desktop share capability:
damaka Launches Industry’s First Peer-to-Peer Desktop Share;
damaka users see each others' desktop while communicating using voice, video and IM
October 5, 2006 09:00 AM US ET
RICHARDSON, Texas – October 5, 2006 – damaka™, a fast-growing communication and collaboration software company, introduces peer-to-peer desktop share. This feature allows users to see the desktop of their friends, family, and business associates after downloading the damaka software for free from the company website. Desktop share is a new feature added to damaka’s existing product offering which includes voice, video, DialOut™, IM, and file transfer.
damaka is the first company in the world to offer SIP-based, peer-to-peer desktop sharing, along with multi-party video-conferencing, IM conference chats, and 8-party voice-calls. The company founders noted that their vision is to create an interconnected world where all aspects of communication, from a simple phone call to a powerful collaboration session can take place in a virtual environment seamlessly, easily, and joyfully.
According to Siva Ravikumar, damaka CEO, “damaka has already tackled the unified communication space. Our goal now is to be the cutting-edge provider of peer-to-peer collaboration. Desktop share is just the beginning of a suite of collaboration tools we plan to launch. Our goal is to create a Connection Revolution where you will not have to fly to another city again for your meetings.”
The damaka free consumer version offers peer-to-peer desktop sharing in view mode only. The damaka Enterprise and Operator version will include an upgrade where one user can give control of their desktop to another user within his or her peer-to-peer network.
Posted by: dennis | October 06, 2006 at 04:39 PM