The New Joost: Like Hulu, But Social [NewTeeVee] (2)
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Om broke the news today that Joost is abandoning its full-on client for a browser plug-in, falling in line with the way of the web (aka Hulu). We’ve had a chance to poke around the password-protected site, and here’s some of what we saw. The plug-in is a 18.6 MB download, and it installed fine on my Mac. The site seems especially driven by a social experience. One of my problems with Joost all along ...
Screenshots And Video Of The New Joost (15)
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So much for Joost’s carefully prepared plans to release a browser version of their TV over IP service later this month. News leaked this morning that Joost would be abandoning their year old XUL based desktop client in favor of a browser based service that’s more like Hulu and YouTube. Users will still be required to download a plugin that facilitates P2P transfers of files, which is still an adoption hurdle. But at least users ...
Joost to kill desktop client, provide browser-based video player? (7)
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Filed under: Internet, Video, Browsers Apparently a web browser really is the best place to watch online video. OK, that's probably not at all true. But thanks to YouTube, Hulu, and other Flash video based web sites, most users have gotten used to watching video without launching a separate application. So this week we saw Amazon de-emphasize the download feature of its online video store. Next up? It looks like Joost might end development of ...
Joost Tries to Remain Relevant; Will Nix Desktop Client (7)
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Joost – one of last year’s hottest startups and so far one of this year’s biggest flops – is pulling a 180 in strategy. According to Om Malik, the video service will kill off its desktop client and replace it with a Web version that will utilize a “small plugin that would embed itself in the browser and allow you to grab files using the P2P technologies” Although the required download was long one of ...
Breaking: Joost Turns to the Web for Help (12)
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Joost, battling for relevance in the online tv world against Hulu and others, will soon no longer require users to download separate desktop software to access the service (its existing software is based on Xul). Instead users will be able to access Joost via a small browser plugin that will continue to use Joost’s P2P technology to distribute video among users quickly. The service launched to considerable fanfare but has fallen off the radar as ...
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simonpure said:
Moving away from desktop to the web. Welcome to Web 2.0 Joost!
Joost To Kill Desktop Client (12)
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Exclusive: In what is likely to be a major shift in the company’s strategy, peer-to-peer startup Joost is going to stop making its desktop client. The decision to suspend the client is likely to be announced soon, I am told. The company is going to a browser-only strategy, in which much of its content is going to be available through a browser-based player. Joost, I am told, will release a small plugin that would embed ...
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Alex said:
This is good news. I really tried to use it, but their desktop client sucks.
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John said:
After a year and a half, Joost discovers that people don't want to install single-purpose PC software in order to watch a meager selection of bad content.
Why Do the Unsexy Parts of Technology Make the Sexy Dollars? (1)
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Everyone in the Web 2.0 world hears news coming from companies like Youtube and Hulu on a seemingly daily basis. However what most tech blogs fail to cover is the (for lack of a better term) unsexy part of the online media business. These companies are uploading, managing and distributing millions of files on a global basis and are the invisible hand of online video. Sparked by the ongoing explosion of audio, video, photos, and ...
Il giornale o le foto delle vacanze in tv: vanno in onda i widget (1)
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Immaginate di guardare la tv, mentre in sovraimpressione sulla parte inferiore dello schermo (schermata qui in alto) scorre una serie di widget o di feed Rss dai vostri siti internet preferiti (meteo, informazione, i titoli di cronaca del vostro giornale locale, gli aggiornamenti da Facebook). Poi, vi accorgete che un vostro amico ha inserito su Flickr le foto delle vacanze, e con un tasto del telecomando passate dalla miniatura allo schermo intero (schermata qui sotto). ...
Joost Goes to China (1)
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Joost launches a Chinese version today as a joint venture with TOM Online, the Chinese media conglomerate that’s majority-owned by Joost investor Li Ka-shing. TOM is providing local advertising and content — some 16,000 hours of programming from CCTV, China Record Corporation, BTV Media, and others — while Joost is providing the technology. We had recently commented that Joost’s investors could barely be nice to it in their public remarks, so it’s good to see ...
Alternative film site Raindance.tv raises € 600.000 (2)
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Good news for alternative movie fanatics out there, Raindance Festival has launched raindance.tv earlier this year and reports that they secured about € 600.000 ($1 million) to accelerate their online operations. The website also signed distribution deals with 8 partners to facilitate the movies to the public. For those in the blue: Raindance is a well known and (16-year) old film festival for movie outsiders, indies and movie rejects. The festival has hosted an impressive ...
Min Macbook Air (1)
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Nu var det ett halvår sen jag skrev om att jag trodde att Macbook Air var på rätt spår, men att den kändes för tidig. Och för dyr. Och nu har jag skaffat mig en. Och inser storheten i den.I och med programpaket som MacHeist och andra nya, billiga och kraftfulla småprogram så tycker jag att Macbook Air kommer till sin rätt mer än tidigare. I alla fall för mig, som inte kände till så ...
Televisión por internet: P2P (5)
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Hubo unos meses en los que parecía que la televisión por internet iba a ser sinónimo de tecnologías P2P. Era a principios de 2007, cuando por fin pudimos probar Joost y comprobar si era verdad aquello de la calidad - tan superior a los Youtube del momento - y la experiencia mucho más cercana a la televisión de siempre. Y lo era, Joost cosechó buenas críticas a pesar de que su modelo tiene puntos oscuros, ...
Joost - What’s Playing Online (1)
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Joost is a service that provides tv over the internet. It is for Windows and Mac and requires a broadband internet connection and software that must be downloaded. I first read it about a year ago when Lifehacker posted a review of the service. I took a look at it but was not that impressed with the content provided and didn’t like the idea of having to download software in order to watch. This, however, ...
How to Truly Bring Online Video to the Mainstream (2)
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Aside from my troll feedings this week, I’ve really been doing a fair amount of thinking about online video, here at the blog and elsewhere. Between my thoughts on the framed discussion between Hulu versus YouTube, our own video productions at Mashable, and some discussions elsewhere I’ve had on the value of shortform video versus long, that’s where my head has been. I’ve mentioned in the past my aversion to all things billed as the ...
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Leona said:
Until the hardware catches up with the software and solves the veg-factor problem, YouTube, Hulu or podcasting will still be relegated to the minority in the typical media consumers’ diets.
TidalTV launches TV-like online video service (1)
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Filed under: Industry, PVR Wire, Web TidalTV is a web-based video service. But it doesn't look anything like YouTube, Joost, or even Hulu. If anything, it looks like the service you get from your cable or satellite provider. The TidalTV display is laid out like an electronic program guide with a video window in the corner. You can click on the video to bring up a full screen version. Or you can click on the ...
ZeeVee: One Box to Broadcast PC's HD Video All Over the House [Home Entertainment] (1)
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Today, a startup called ZeeVee is launching the ZvBox, a three-part plan for getting all the good HD video content from your PC out to all the TVs in the house: • The box itself converts the video from the PC's VGA port into a high-def channel and sends it out to your home's coax cable network. • A PC app acts as a launcher for all the good PC-based internet video clients, like Hulu, ...
Joost CEO On US & Global Plans, Cutbacks (1)
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Mike Volpi, CEO of Joost, spent his first weekend in California in many months dealing with the blowback from a story in The Sunday Times (of UK) that has the company scaling back its global ambitions in favor of a US-only focus. We talked earlier this evening, and Volpi said none of those things are actually true. (PaidContent had talked to Joost spokesperson earlier today.) “We are focusing on US, Western Europe, China and a ...
Joost To Undertake Major Restructure (1)
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Joost is said to be preparing a “major retrenchment” of staff as part of a restructure that will see Joost abandon its global ambitions for the US only. According to the Sunday Times, Joost has struggled to convince media and sports companies to sell it global rights, which are usually offered on a country by country basis. The Times reports that Joost still has money in the bank and “Joost is unlikely to close, however. ...
How to reset your Joost profile on Mac OSX (1)
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I’ve noticed Joost tends to not refresh the content of their channel Line up unless it resets its User Profile. I’m not sure if this trick works on Windows, but it certainly does work for Mac. (Please leave a comment if it works the same way on windows, I don’t see why not, all they have to do is check for the alt-key modifier as the application starts up, should be the same thing) Close ...
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