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Joost Review from Red Herring

Red Herring has a review of Joost on their website and in print. Some notable points include:

• “The ability to get content from multiple sources through one interface could make [Joost] very successful,” says David Hallerman, senior analyst at research firm eMarketer.
• Joost plans to eventually move the Internet service to television sets through set-top boxes.
• Joost must overcome several hurdles, including content providers and bandwidth issues
• Leading movie studios and television production firms are all notably absent from that lineup and without compelling content, Joost will be hard-pressed to turn a profit.
• There will be plenty of competition for advertisers from other services such as YouTube, Movielink, Apple iTunes, and BitTorrent

          

1 comment January 27th, 2007

The Joost Vision Roadmap

What can be expected of Joost a few years down the line?

Niklas Zennstroem, co-developer of Joost, sees a future where everything will be an internet device. We are already seeing cell phones, PDA’s, cameras and the Internet in a single product. The Apple iPhone has taken it one step further by adding a music player and an intuitive user interface. Not to mention video playback and bluetooth ability.

We are seeing personal computers act like televisions with advances such as Tivo and other digital media recorders. Most cars now have high tech navigation systems that interact with the the center console, cell phones, and provide dynamic information like traffic and weather. The world is growing towards the anticipated digital convergence and the long-term roadmap of Joost is very much dependent on the future of these digital devices.

In a world where everything will be connected and users can access anything from anywhere, on-demand media content is what the users will want. And thats where Joost comes in. Zennstroem sees televisions becoming more and more like a computer with internet enabled. Once that happens, televisions will no longer have to rely on “big bulky networks” .

Joost offers a platform for both small and large content producers. A platform that caters to the rapidly growing video on-demand market. “Even a small film producer can become a broadcaster,” Zennstroem says. “That’s the vision.”

          

Add comment January 26th, 2007

Joost (Venice Project) Beta bulid 0.7.1 CNN Preview

A walkthrough of Joost build 0.7.1 from CNN.

Thanks to KingArtus on the forums for the links.

          

1 comment January 26th, 2007

Joost Preview Video

Here’s a short movie about Joost, formally, the Venice Project

          

Add comment January 26th, 2007

What does Joost using XUL mean?

What is XUL?
XUL (pronounced “zool”) is Mozilla’s XML-based user interface language that lets you build feature rich cross-platform applications that can run connected to or disconnected from the Internet. These applications are easily customized with alternative text, graphics, and layout so they can be readily branded or localized for various markets. Web developers already familiar with Dynamic HTML (DHTML) will learn XUL quickly and can start building applications right away.

What does this mean to Joost?
It will allow developers to extend Joost with plug-ins and skins. Like Firefox and Thunderbird, its client is based on XUL, SVG, JavaScript and XPCOM. The user interface also uses XHTML and CSS. Since there is already a vibrant developer community that has written plug-ins that extend Mozilla in many different ways, it will not be long before we start seeing custom plug-ins and skins developed for Joost.

          

1 comment January 25th, 2007

Joost Invite goes for $51 on eBay

It didn’t take long for Joost invites to find their way on eBay. This particular auction ended at $51 however there has not been any others posted on eBay since.

Meanwhile, on message boards and blogs all over the web, everyone seems to be asking for an invite but no one seems to have one. The demand is similar to when Gmail first came out. What does this all mean? Not many Joost token invites are being made available at the moment so the best thing to do is wait. Patience is a virtue.

          

2 comments January 24th, 2007