Sugih Jamin presents Zattoo.com
Prof. Dr. Sugih Jamin is co-founder and CTO of the Swiss/American startup Zattoo, which offers free live-television via Internet. He agreed that I record his Red Herring 100 presentation in Cannes:
Link: sevenload.com
I had lunch with Sugih and learned several things:
– Zattoo launched in Switzerland because of the cheap licencing costs and the good coverage of the major Swiss TV-stations
– Zattoo has over 250’000 users only in Switzerland
– Zattoo started as a students-project of one of Jamin’s students
– Development is based in the US; business/marketing is based in Zurich
– The synchronization issues should be fixed soon (the cause of the problem was that Zattoo stopped using QuickTime for synchronization due to realiability issues)
– Zattoo will generate revenue with advertising that is displayed when a new channel is buffering (that takes about 5 seconds)
More Links:
Alarm Clock Euro June 2006
Alarm Clock Euro March 2007
