http://www.richardcarey.net/2007/01/17/the-television-will-be-revolutionized/ Digital media strategy, user experience, design and development of serious games, web and mobile apps, educational technology and gamification. Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:34:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.richardcarey.net/2007/01/17/the-television-will-be-revolutionized/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Richard Carey | Joost Gets The Juice Thu, 10 May 2007 17:51:59 +0000 http://richardcarey.net/2007/01/17/the-television-will-be-revolutionized/#comment-2 [...] Joost, the web video service created by Skype founders Jnus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom that I’ve blogged in these pages earlier in the year, has taken down a jumbo $45million round of investment according to Rafat Ali’s PaidContent.org blog this morning on his blog. Although less than the $59.4 million raised by Brightcove, it’s still a huge payday that gives Joost the juice to compete aggressively in the web video space. What does Joost have to do with educational technology? Directly perhaps not a lot, but indirectly it’s an example of successful serial entrepreneurship and disruptive technology challenging the status quo. It’s only a matter of time before the same forces have an impact in educational publishing and technology. [...] [...] Joost, the web video service created by Skype founders Jnus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom that I’ve blogged in these pages earlier in the year, has taken down a jumbo $45million round of investment according to Rafat Ali’s PaidContent.org blog this morning on his blog. Although less than the $59.4 million raised by Brightcove, it’s still a huge payday that gives Joost the juice to compete aggressively in the web video space. What does Joost have to do with educational technology? Directly perhaps not a lot, but indirectly it’s an example of successful serial entrepreneurship and disruptive technology challenging the status quo. It’s only a matter of time before the same forces have an impact in educational publishing and technology. [...]

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