Joining the Joost wagon
March 8th, 2007
I’ve had the joy of trying Joost out the last couple of weeks.
Joost is the new project frem The Skype guys and the talk of town right now. This time they provide all-legal free TV. The experience where mostly impressive. It takes a few seconds to understand the logic behind the program. On my 4 mbit connection playback was smooth and the quality was great but they say it should work on a 1 Mbit connection.
The only flaws I’ve found so far is that it is not open to all, and that the content they provide is a bit limited, even though I’ve spent hours enjoying Indie-films, World-Poker Tour and National Geographic documentaries.
It seems that they are inspired by Google in their approach to PR. As Google did with Gmail you need to be invited by another user in order to gain access (If anyone wants an invite make a comment, and I’ll send you one if I, at some point get more invites than I can use). To me this seems like a great way to make a hype.
As with Skype the grand idea is to base it all on peer-to-peer, the concept behind most file-sharing applications. The advantage of the concept is that all users serve each instead of all being served by a central server.
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8 Comments Add your own
1. Colette | March 8th, 2007 at 3:11 am
hey! i would love an invite pleeaasse if ne1 can invite me! im a media tech student and just found out about joost today in my lecture lol it seems really cool so yeh an invite would be great!
2. Jay | March 8th, 2007 at 7:39 am
Hi… could you send me an invite too please… I found out about Joost through my IT professor and he mentioned that this mite change how we view TV… please if you could send me an invite at origenal@gmail.com I would greatly appreciate it..
3. Carissa | March 8th, 2007 at 8:51 am
Joost sounds like quite a concept. Being an online television addict, I’m quite interested in taking a gander at what Joost can offer. Since I have a job that requires little to no effort on a daily basis, I find myself with oodles of free time to go to the ABC Full Episode viewer, NBC Rewind, and CBS innertube. If you’re in a giving mood, I’d absolutely love an invite. I’m anxious to see what the hype is all about.
4. Jane | March 8th, 2007 at 10:36 am
Hi! I would love an invite too, if by any chance you had one.
Thanks in advance,
jane
5. jens | March 8th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
Thanks for the comments - the interest for Joost is certainly big. I’ve been a using it since february 26. and so far i’ve been granted 3 tokens to invite other users, and they have been used.
So I can’t make any promises.
6. Amy | March 9th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Hey, if you get any more invites I would love one.
Thanks,
Amy
7. Leroy Watkins | May 24th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Definitely interested in Joost. Send an invite please. I watch and listen to all kinds of streaming programing - getting more programs available seems like a good move to me. Please sign me up.
8. jim mclemore | June 23rd, 2007 at 7:55 am
I’m a graphic designer in indiana.
I’d love an invite. I’ve been trying for a couple of weeks.
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