Priit Kasesalu (born 10 April 1972) is an

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and

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best known for his participation in the development of Kazaa,

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and, most recently,

Joost Joost () was an Internet TV service, created by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis (founders of Skype and Kazaa). During 2007–2008 Joost used peer-to-peer TV (P2PTV) technology to distribute content to their Mozilla-based desktop player; in la ...

. He currently works for Ambient Sound Investments and lives in

Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ' ...

Biography

He started off as programmer for a local hardware manufacturer in 1986 with his class-mate

Jaan Tallinn Jaan Tallinn (born 14 February 1972) is an Estonian billionaire computer programmer and investor known for his participation in the development of Skype and file-sharing application FastTrack/ Kazaa. Jaan Tallinn is a leading figure in the field ...

. The company was assembling 8-bit computers for use in public schools. In 1992 he studied

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. On the 7 June 1993, he and Jaan officially registered BlueMoon as a privately held Estonian software company.

Work

In 1989 he created the first Estonian commercial computer game with

Ahti Heinla Ahti Heinla (born 2 May 1972) is an Estonian computer programmer and businessman. He is one of the developers of Skype. He was also an organizer of Let's Do It 2008, a civic action with 50,000 volunteers participating in cleaning up the countr ...

and

, '' Kosmonaut''. This was later remade as '' SkyRoads'' and has been further remade/adapted by other companies numerous times. In 2003 he helped develop

with

Janus Friis Janus Friis (; born 26 June 1976) is a Danish entrepreneur best known for co-founding the file-sharing application Kazaa, and the peer-to-peer telephony application Skype. In September 2005, he and his business partner Niklas Zennström sold Sk ...

and

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, as well as Heinla and Tallinn. These five also developed Kazaa and

. He has made various contributions to SubSpace under the

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''PriitK'', particularly the Continuum client.

Projects

The following is a list of projects participated in by Priit Kasesalu. * Kosmonaut (1992) * SkyRoads (1993) * Sound Club (1993) * Tigma SuperScroll (1995) *

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(PC platform, 1995) * The Art of Flying (1996) * Sequel to Sound Club (1996) *

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(1998) * Subspace Continuum (1995) * Kazaa (2001) *

(2003) *

(2006)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kasesalu, Priit 1972 births Living people Estonian computer programmers Skype people Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 5th Class

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