GigaOm giving away Joost invites
GigaOm has 150 Joost invites to give away (along with Babelgum and FON wifi routers).
Get them while they last!
Update: Looks like they have run out of Joost invites.
Add comment January 31st, 2007
Archive for January, 2007
Joost Stinks?
According to John Dvorak, Joost isn’t worth your time. The reasons he sights include the only content being infomercials for last-gen rock bands and commercials suddenly heard in the background as a background task.
While he has a reason to gripe, we must remember that Joost is still in beta. As a commenter pointed out, despite the very limited content, the ability to test Joost provides a proof of concept. They are just beginning to develop relationships with content providers and quality content will be available once Joost officially launches. The commercials and ads being played in the background is a known bug that will not be released in the final version. Sorry John, but with only one ad being played per hour, on-demand TV, and a great platform - Joost is here to stay.
Add comment January 31st, 2007
Problems for Joost in the UK?
According to Digital TX, one of the biggest problems Joost faces is in the UK, where many of the top ISPs are already planning on their own video on demand content services. Not only that, ISPs can limit bandwidth on certain applications and many have a 1GB monthly download cap. A movie would take up half the monthly cap. Would the UK ISPs allow Users to use all their bandwidth for a service, like Joost, which would be a direct competition to their own services in the future?
Add comment January 30th, 2007
The Top 10 reasons why Joost will Succeed
1. It is from the same people that did Skype and Kazaa
2. Community involvement with plugins and skins
3. Endless possibilities - Joost on the TV, on a PDA, smart phone
4. No copyright worries like YouTube
5. Built on successful open standards
6. Have some real heavyweight programmers behind the project
7. They’ve created a great buzz already
8. Plenty of money to support the project
9. People can spend time on their computers and still watch tv
10. It’s free
Add comment January 30th, 2007
Do you Joost? Review from Yahoo! Tech
Robin Raskin from Yahoo! Tech wrote an article entitled “Do you Joost?”
In it, Marty Lafferty, CEO of a volunteer organization in the distributed computing industry says, “The fact that you have access to any TV program you like (of course, we’re talking about TV channels that have agreed to stream their content in the beta version of Joost) is simply amazing.”
Add comment January 29th, 2007
Joost Another YouTube? Review from Technology Review
Technology Review has an article about Joost and questions if it is another YouTube. Some points in the article include:
- The Joost browser will allow software developers to create their own plug-ins eventually
- The service is free and supported by one minute of targeted advertisements per hour.
- CBS’s webcast of the NCAA final-four tournament last month drew a record 250,000 simultaneous viewers. But 140,000 people were left in a digital waiting room. This is where Joost comes in.
- Unlike BitTorrent, which requires lengthy downloads, Joost is built for instant gratification. Anywhere in the world, it takes less than five seconds to change the channel.
- This technology has been bouncing around academic research for five to six years now
- Almost 90 percent of the code for Joost comes from open source, but it’s the final 10 percent that makes the difference.
You can read the entire Technology Review article here.
Add comment January 28th, 2007
