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Joost interview with Chief Technology Officer

Netkwesties has a 4-part interview with chief technology officer Dirk-Willem van Gulik about Joost. Highlights of the interview include:

• The start of Joost was triggered by bandwidth and broadband connections, availability of content, and the sale of Skype
• Started highering in Jan, 2006 and first serious coding just started late May
• Completely different form the interactive searching, downloading and then watching little videoscreens like with YouTube.
• Statistics show that people just watch more and more tv.
• Beta test shows people are connected very long times and are loyal to channels
• The user interface is understood well by testers
• Partnering with electronics companies to plug in ethernet
• Very logical next step is HDTV

Read the entire interview at Netkwesties.

          

Add comment February 4th, 2007

Joost to allow uploading your own content?

According to the Joost Beta FAQ section, Joost is working on new tools that will allow you to post your own content in the future. Since copyrighted content is really important to them, it is likely that content uploaded will require a strict review and requirements before being viewable by the general public.

          

Add comment February 2nd, 2007

Joost YouTube Playlist

Forum member cbuck has put together Joost playlist from YouTube with demos, interviews, and anything else Joost related. Check out the playlist here.

          

Add comment February 1st, 2007

Joost Bandwidth to Hours Conversion

Does your ISP have a daily/weekly/monthly bandwidth limit?

Enter how much GB of bandwidth your service provides to find out how many hours of Joost you could potentially use:

          

Add comment February 1st, 2007

Joost Hours to Bandwidth Conversion

Want to know how much bandwidth you have used from using Joost?

Enter the number of hours of Joost you have used to find out how much bandwidth you have used:

Hours of Joost:

          

Add comment February 1st, 2007

Joost System Requirements

Currently, the beta software runs only on Windows XP with Service Pack 2, however, with a few tweaks, people have gotten it to work on other operating systems such as Windows Vista.

Operating System

• Windows XP Service Pack 2
• DirectX 9.0c

Hardware

• Pentium 4 processor, 1GHz
• 512Mb or more RAM.
• A modern video card with DirectX support and at least 32Mb of VRAM.
• About 500 MB free disk space; The Joostâ„¢ software is a 10 MB download, expanding to 30-35 MB on disk. The remainder is used as a cache.

Internet connection

• Broadband/ADSL (1Mbit/s downstream, 512Kbit/s upstream recommended, although lower speeds may well work)
• 1 hour of viewing is 320 Megabytes downloaded and 105 Megabytes uploaded, which means that it will exhaust a 1 Gigabyte cap in 10 hours
• A modern video card with DirectX support and at least 32Mb of VRAM.
• About 500 MB free disk space; The Joostâ„¢ software is a 10 MB download, expanding to 30-35 MB on disk. The remainder is used as a cache.

Important Notes

• The application continues to run in the background after you close the main window.
• To stop using bandwidth, you need to exit the application entirely by right-clicking on the Joostâ„¢ icon in the system tray and choose Exit.

          

5 comments February 1st, 2007