February 21st, 2007

Joost

As you may or may not know, Joost will be an application to provide the first internet-television service. Ever. It won’t be the first streaming media service, obviously (hi youtube), but in a nutshell it’ll provide users total on-demand content at TV or near-TV quality.

I’m attempting to become a beta tester; I’m excited about the experience a hybrid television, PC based system will offer (PC in the broadest sense of the term). More on this to follow in the upcoming weeks.

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Viacom has told youtube to take down any content it owns the rights to, and in the same swoop has entered into a deal with Joost to license content to the company once it is up and running.

The Viacom empire includes Paramount Pictures and Dreamworks, the Comedy Channel, MTV, and Nickelodeon, making it the owner of many of YouTube’s most popular clips.

This should get interesting since Google owns youtube, and Google is the last company to be left in the dust.

by ryan on February 23rd, 2007 at 2:27 am

I received an email recently from the Joost team informing me that my beta-tester request was being processed and that I should have my information soon:

This is just to let you know that we haven’t forgotten your request to try Joost. We’re now speeding up the process of adding testers and we’ll shortly be inviting everyone who has signed up to try Joost.

This includes you, so expect an invite within the next couple of weeks - in the meantime, thanks for bearing with us - we appreciate it.

See you soon on Joost!

That was 18 March, and today is 30 March. So, either it will be very soon or it will be never.

by ryan on March 31st, 2007 at 1:01 am

It’s nearing the end of second day in April and still no word from Joost.

Perhaps by “couple” they mean something other than two? Perhaps that sucks.

by Ryan on April 2nd, 2007 at 11:16 pm
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