Joost Signs Deal With CNN, Sony, NHL; Prepares To Launch

You have to love this, after about 10 years the TV is making it to the web almost 100%. Keep up the great work, Team Joost.

By having content arrangements in place with the likes of CNN and Sony, I think they are starting well.

got any invites?

oh boy, old episodes of Charlie’s Angels and Starsky and Hutch. Just what I was looking for. Joost has great potential, but they’ll get nowhere if they can only get old catalog crap. When is someone going to step up and deliver some *real* content?! Call me when I can watch Battlestar Galactica on Joost.

I keep hearing about all the advancements in content they are making, but is anyone watching this stuff? I have been a beta tester for the last couple of weeks and I haven’t been able to watch an entire program yet. It continues to cut out every time after only a few minutes of viewing?

I stopped messing around with Joost when I got sick of World’s Strongest Man marathons.

Congrats to Niklas Zennstrøm and Janus Friis for pulling off this deal.

I haven’t seen the beta site yet, but if they really achieve their goal (see below), then it would be a milestone in the Internet revolution.

“What’s Joost? It’s free TV, with the choice to watch alone or with friends. Joost is packed with internet tools such as instant messaging and channel chat, allowing people to really share the TV experience. It’s a completely secure platform for content owners that respects their rights, while protecting and enhancing their brands. And it’s an incredibly flexible way for advertisers to reach a truly global audience, in ways that really work. Joost isn’t just video on the internet - it’s the next generation of television for viewers, content owners and advertisers everywhere.”

I enjoyed Joost at first but I hardly use it since it’s not in my browser.

how do you invite people? I’m currently a member but I dont see anywhere on the site that allows me to send invites.

Exciting news! The competition is really heating up. I wonder if the major networks will continue to offer shows on their sites?

Great news for Joost, but not sure if it is for existing Joost users like me, who have yet to see any show. I have had an invite for the past few months, but have yet to see a show. First, I was in India where they were insufficient of users (the peer to peer thing) and enough bandwidth juice to watch Joost. Now that I am back in the USA I am still struggling to get this up and running.

I am curious: have people been able to see anything on Joost? I mean more than 5 or 10 minutes of a show.

Kamla

ashokn225: If you go to the My Joost menu and then find your way to the Widgets button in the lower left corner, you will be able to choose “Invite other users”. Not the most intuitive solution, but that’s Joost for ya.

I critized the interface at the beginning of the year, but then had to stop testing it for a while. When I came back recently I expected it to have seen major changes, but it’s still the same counterintuitive, inelegant mess of a GUI.

I’m guessing that as long as competitors never close in on the content deals and back-end p2p-technology, Joost will still do very well. But I sure wish the project had been overseen by Skype creators Friis and Zennström on a more day-to-day basis.

ULE—thanks, found it, but I have 0 invites. I thought any registered user could send unlimited invites now?

ashokn225: I was referring to the Joost software, by the way. I have not found a way to send invites from the website.

ashokn225: Yeah. I had 5 invites left, sent them away to a few of our commenters at Bloggywood.se, and was then left with 0 invites as well.. Strange.

Joost have not put out any press release or blog post on their website about unlimited invites, but since both TechCrunch and the BBC are reporting it I figured it to be true.

let me get one please

airforceones7@gmail.com

Interesting to see Joost following in Youtube footsteps but with an overt licensing stratetgy with big media…

I have been joost for sometime. I like it. I am excited about the future.

The problem I have so far with Joost is that the content from these “A” level television companies is anything but “A” level content. MTV has Laguna Beach, Comedy Central has “Stella,” and I couldn’t care less about either of those shows, AND those are the networks I recognize. Joost is cool for exposure to shows from outside the US I would have never seen otherwise, like Fifth Gear, but if they really want to replace television, they need top-tier content and better hardware (remote control) integration in my opinion.

http://paininthetech.com/joost.....s_and_os_x

I have yet to try it out. Can someone take a sec to send me an invite? I’d appreciate it.

I have been using Joost as well as a Beta Tester. Like others have mentioned, there were serious problems watching anything on Joost which I hope has been resolved before they go live.

i am also a beta tester of joost. make sure you go to the site and download the most up to date client. its p2p like kazaa, so if you are on the client that no one else is using you have no one to share content with my friend. use your joost name on joost.com and you’ll be str8.

personally, i think its cool. i love tv and i love the web - and its lays the web on top of tv. except, as oft mentioned, the content is lacking. but seems like the momentum is shifting. as long as the joost team can continue to both improve the technology and the variety/timeliness of content it will be a blessing to the internet video community.

please send me an invitation!

isaackkm at gmail.com

Thank you so much!!!!!

that is not a capability of the beta, must be pending launch… when its avail i shall return + send.

Viacom mostly likely laugh at Google.

Google should not buy TV plan. Google need to buy medical website or create medical search engine. yes…

I hate to beg but I’d really like to try this out. Anyone got a spare invite?
leftohio@gmail.com

joost rocks - keep in mind it’s still in beta, so they’re still ironing out kinks. beta means beta to them, not google’s warped 5 year beta thing. it was really clunky at first but i was able to watch a bunch of full programs last week - Inside the Pyramids, Inside the Secret Service, Inside the White House, and another show on pyramids (all on the national geographic channel).

about halfway through each program and sometimes at the beginning you get a real short Orbitz gum ad (at least i was getting them last week…)

haven’t had any problems with shows cutting out recently but i did see that for a while right after the beta launched.

the main thing that sucks is that it is a separate app, which makes me forget about it, and the window resizing stuff seems to have some serious bugs still (all i can do are minimize and full screen, the smaller window never “materializes”)

all in all i’d say this is a pretty killer product, on demand peer-to-peer TV. once they get some more mainstream shows it’ll really be tight.

I checked the Joost, its cool. But I prefer you tube than joost. I prefer user generated content than normal TV.

http://www.suggestusability.com

I have got some invites. I am giving them away in my blog.

Joost is getting into some good partnerships. As it continues to grow the amount of content available would increase substantially.

Who could send me one invitation

Thanks in advance

geraldmun@30gigs.com

anyone have an invite left?

i’d love one and will pass them on

freeivy@gmail.com

i could use an invite if you got one to spare

iraqshot@wanadoo.es

Anyone could give me an invite, thanks in advance.

antkey@hotmail.com

I have an invite. Drop your email in a comment on my blog and i’ll zap it to you. First come first served…

Cool, Joost + NHL
any more invite?

I got 998 more invites

Anyone could give me an invite, thanks in advance.

bulgaria_mitko@yahoo.com

I would love an invite as well! Interested to see how Joost battles the Cable industry -

chrisstrom (at) gmail (dot) com

Thanks a lot!

This is Youtube built backwards.

Youtube started with - no licensing will end up with mostly licensed content

Joost - Is starting totally licensed.

I went through this list and invited anyone who wanted an invite. I got a bunch so let me know.

Can someone PLEASE send me an invitation ?

I greatly appreciate,

Thanks,

bennisPINKELEPHANTgmail.com

PINKELEPHANT = @

H. Bennis

invite please!

thanks mrsticks02 at yahoo dot com.

I have Babelgum beta passwords for trade on a Joost invite

invite me please
ipetr@volny.cz
thanks

always looking for an invite

grub bastic 41 @ yahoo

no spaces of course

cheers

Also went through and invited those that commented after 8:46am today. It’s good, but not great. I’m impressed but bummed that I have to download a client in order to use this…that’s a pain point. Quality is good - lack of content is a bummer. No ads yet

please send one to eents a-t hot.ee

If you need a invite am giving them away on my blog
http://tallyuk.wordpress.com/

please send invite sdmontesj yahoo.com

If anyone wants an Invite - mail me at

andy.scott12 (at) gmail (dot) com

I’ll shoot you one

Cheers

Can I get an invite?

burntorange07 (at) gmail dot com

invite please!!!!!!!!!

fabriziomarra2@virgilio.it

Thanks

hey im about to give out invites to 51 and 52 … anyone else want?

I wouldnt say no to a joost invite. Cheers

that will be dixiedean66@yahoo.com. thanks

Been wanting to try joost. If anyone has an invite please send to jamoretz@msn.com, thanks in advance

What a crap, like KAZZA an InYourTube. Total balony. Stuff doesn’t even work.

Hi!

Could you give me an invitation to Joost?

Thanks!

Regards,

Daniel

CAN YOU PLEASE SEND ME AND INVITATION FOR JOOST THANKS IN ADVANCE

IF ANYBODY CAN SEND ME AND INVITATION FOR JOOST WILL REALLY APPRECIATE THANKS MY E-MAIL IS CURET1@HOTMAIL.COM

invite please!!!!!!!!!

invite please!!!!!!!!!
ingjmendezr@gmail.com

id love an invite too… thanks

j.menziessmith (A) btinternet.com

I can send Joost invitations. Can someone invite me to Babelgum? Pleeeaase

pellicci at inwind.it

i need invite.pls.
thx

Hi,

Joost invites available from

http://www.theadnanahmed.com/j.....e-n111.php

Come post and get your invites!!!!

Adnan.