It's been a while since we've heard any significant news from Joost. They launched into an invite only beta back in early 2007 and made quite the stir with everybody eager to get their hands on an invite. Since then, not a whole lot has been said. While there was a demand for invites at launch, the masses weren't impressed with the service.
Personalized homepages were spotlighted in March with Yahoo completing a huge redesign for My Yahoo! and Google launching a variety of dramatically changing themes for their Personalized Homepages. Additionally, it was a rough month for YouTube after Viacom sued them for $1 Billion dollars.
Watch out Joost because here comes Miro! Some of you may have heard Miro mentioned quite a bit around the Web between yesterday and today, and that's because it really is worth talking about it. Everybody wants to get their hands on the open-source, rather slick video player with thousands of unrestricted channels including HD content.
When NBC Universal and News Corp announced that they were teaming up back in March, most people assumed that they were doing so to take on YouTube by launching a video sharing site. As it turns out, they had no intention of competing with YouTube and instead had their eyes set on creating a place where people would be able to view video content online.
Remember back in April when having a Joost invitation in your hands was reason for envy by those who didn't? The launch of their private beta back then was extremely popular as everybody wanted to get the chance to give it a try. With over 15,000 TV shows and 250 channels, Joost is finally ready to step out into the public with today's release of the Beta 1.0 version.
There was a lot of chatter yesterday about Joost and their recent milestone of one million beta users. One million is an impressive number for a start-up, there’s no doubt about that, especially since they haven’t officially launched yet. But, that doesn’t mean that those one million beta users that signed up are actually Joost.
I always love the “Best Website” lists because there’s usually a handful of sites that I haven’t heard of, or paid much attention to. Time magazine has put together their list of the 50 Best Websites of 2007. They explain it as their picks of “what’s new and exciting about the Web right now.”
It seems as though all of the hype over Joost has settled down, way down. In fact, it’s been a while since I’ve seen Joost in the news, until today. This week Joost and VH1 are expected to announce an unprecedented arrangement that may just give Joost a nice boost.
Many sites are incorrectly reporting that Microsoft is developing LiveStation, while other sites just aren’t making it clear that Microsoft only has a very small stake in the company that is developing it, and they’re not really involved in the development process.
Unfortunately Joost had to find out the hard way today that converting a PowerPoint presentation to a PDF is not always a good idea.
Joost invites have been a hot commodity lately, but the problem until recently was that in order to get an invite, someone with an account had to send you one of their limited invites. We’ve given away all of our invites, and several readers offered their invites up as well.
The time has finally come for Joost to open its doors, well, kind of. The video sharing service is still in the Beta stage, but they have made the effort to launch their service and give all current users unlimited invites. So you still have to pester your cousin’s aunt’s nephew’s uncle to send you one of the invites!
We’ve given away several invites to Joost now (thanks to several or our readers for giving their invites away), so for anybody who’s gotten to give it a try, what do you think of it?
We love giving things away, even if it’s a free invite for Joost! I know there are lots of people who are wanting to get in on the Joost beta, which is why we give away our invites as we get them. Unfortunately it’s only been 8 so far. Luckily Kassad, one of our readers, has offered his three invites to other CyberNet readers.
It was just a couple of weeks ago that MetaMan sent us a tip saying that Comcast customers in the US were receiving warnings that they needed to cut back on their excessive bandwidth use, otherwise they would face termination (sounds like the Verizon ordeal, doesn’t it?). Some customers have already gotten cut off which is frustrating to say the least.
You’ve probably heard of Joost by now. It was started by the brains behind both Kazaa and Skype, and it seems to have exploded into popularity out of nowhere, particularly after Viacom turned on YouTube and greeted Joost with open arms. Joost is the newest way to distribute TV shows and video using interactive software.
When Viacom pulled out the carpet underneath YouTube, I’m sure YouTube wasn’t expecting it was because there was someone else coming into the picture. Viacom left, and headed on over to Joost which is just getting their start.
