As reported by Business Wire, Joost has been listed in the top 25 start up companies to watch by Business 2.0.
Last year choices such as Digg, Trulia, Technorati, Jotspot, Youtube & Writely have proven to be hugely successful with some of the afformentioned sites being bought by Google.
This year in the video category Joost due for release in the spring gets the nod, with a proven track record in Kazaa and Skype Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom are tipped to have their way with broadcast quality television.
The complete list and descriptions of THE NEXT NET 25 appear in the March issue of Business 2.0 (on newsstands Monday, Feb. 26)
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February 23rd, 2007
The initial Mac version 0.8 of Joost was made available on February 16 but had problems:
“We’re temporarily suspending the download of the Mac OS X client while we fix a rather severe problem in the platform specific section of the code. The Windows version is fine. Apologies for this - but to some extent this is the inevitable result of being on the bleeding edge of a beta.â€
Yesterday, Dirk-Willem van Gulik announced on the forum that “we’re back! - we just put up version 0.8.0.1 to replace the broken 0.8.0 MacOSX build of this morning. Apologies for this - but we had some teething problems with our MacOSX build chain. All part of the ‘fun and games’ called a beta.”
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February 20th, 2007
Viacom has signed a deal with Joost that will see content from MTV, Comedy Central, and CBS distributed on the new P2P distribution service. The move comes just two weeks after YouTube pulled over 100,000 videos offline. ‘Joost’s promise to protect their copyrights was a major factor in Viacom’s decision, and also a stumbling block in their discussions with YouTube/Google. At the moment is it quite easy to download and store video content from YouTube, but no such exploit for Joost is known to exist.’ It’s also a ’secure’ distribution medium in the eyes of many in the entertainment industry, since users can’t upload content themselves.’
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February 20th, 2007
VOY, a leading Latin digital media company, today announced a partnership with Joost™ to provide programming for its innovative IPTV service. VOY will deliver branded channels, including a slate of fresh Latin programming, via Joost’s global distribution platform.
VOY’s channels will feature a variety of programming created by award-winning Latino producers from across the U.S. and Latin America. From short films, to magazine shows and popular TV series, VOY’s programming delivers Latin pop culture while focusing on the issues and ideas that affect Latinos.
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February 14th, 2007
Joost has signed Kamera’s Wow! TV as one of the first channels to its platform. Wow! TV provides entertainment news and gossip and will be available free to viewers with advertising sold by Joost and the revenues then shared with Kamera.
Henrik Eklund, CEO of Kamera, said: “We’re delighted to have signed this deal with Joost. Not only does it give our viewers a better experience with high-quality video in an easy-to-use interface, but we also expect to reach a massive audience.”
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February 12th, 2007
Vincent Dureau, head of TV technology at Google, said that the web will struggle to meet rising demand for high-quality online video. Online video services such as YouTube and Joost are pushing internet capacity to breaking point. Dureau said the internet, as it exists now, was not designed for the transfer of data on the scale required to deliver high-quality video as some broadcast networks and movie studios would like to have happen.
“The web infrastructure, even Google’s [infrastructure], does not scale. It is not going to offer the quality of service that consumers expect.” said Dureau. However, Fredrik de Wahl, of recently-launched web TV portal Joost, suggested that infrastructure providers have made great strides to expand network capacity. Only time will tell.
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February 9th, 2007
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