Janus Friis, one of the founders of, among other Skype and Kazaa, is working on a new video service. ‘Vdio’ is currently in b lwa tastatus, but would ultimately be a competitor of the American Netflix.
Vdio was founded by Janus Friiss and is currently still in bètastatus, reports GigaOm. The intention is that the service is initially being rolled out in the United Kingdom; it is not yet known whether or not the video service and then also in other countries appears.
On the website of Vdio is currently no page or a link to a company. GigaOm, however, found in the American archives of trademark rights a rail to the company Project WBS. The site received confirmation of the suspicions that Friis behind the project was and it turned out that the company, among other former employees of Skype, Napster, Microsoft and Apache are running.
Janus Friis started earlier with Niklas Zennstrom, the co-founder of Skype, music service Rdio. The service provides music for a fixed amount per month. Rdio and Vdio are according to Friis still two separate companies, it is unclear whether Zennstrom also within Vdio a role.
The two have a multitude of services on their name. Under more p2p service Kazaa is of their hand. The highlight of Zennstrom and Friis, Skype was at the beginning of this year for 8.5 billion dollars acquired by Microsoft. They also kept already busy with a video service, but Joost, such as the p2p-tv platform called, was not a success.