Today’s content update from joost brought something interesting… 14 new Reuters shows:
Reuters Showbiz Week
Reuters Technology Week
Reuters Oddly Enough
Some of the Reuters content is fairly recent… dating from April 16th 2007. This is just 12 days old.
Joost has not announced a formal partnership with Reuters yet… but this sure look like it! You [...]
A brave soul has finally made it possible to keep track of what is new on Joost! So far Joost has added content to it’s database but there was no easy way to tell for sure what had been added (or removed).
Hal Schechner has written a python based content parser that scour Joost web database [...]
Credit – colmmacc
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A few weeks ago one of our intrepid Operations staff made the long trip to London to build our newest LTS cluster.
With the exception of some interesting navigation around London’s one way system, the build-out went very smoothly and we now have a high speed service for [...]
I have a few tokens to give away at this moment.
For those with web design talent I will reserve 1 or 2 of them to give to the two best SMF theme design to lineup the forum look and feel with the main site. The forum does not need to look 100% like the [...]
Colm Maccarthaigh gave a presentation about the design of the Joost network.
You can view the presentation by following this link: http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/slides/Joost-network.pdf
The highlights of the presentation are:
No firewalls
No hardware load-balancers
High availability (this is TV)
Lots of bandwidth (this is TV)
Ethernet only
Rapidly provisionable
Business requirements
Cost-effective
Joost servers are the original seeders
of all content
Joost servers also handle the “long-
tail” (which is still [...]
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Joost, the Internet television service being developed by the founders of Skype, has lined up several blue-chip advertisers, including United Airlines, Microsoft, Sony Electronics and Unilever, as it prepares for its introduction.
Those brands are among 30 advertisers listed as “launch partners” for Joost, which plans to send free, advertiser-supported programming to computer screens using the Internet. [...]
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Online video platform Joost has signed three-month contracts with a group of 31 big brand advertisers, including Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, Nike, General Motors and Visa. It will offer these marketers traditional units such as :30 mid-roll spots as well as unique formats, including a small digital overlay ad.
The Coca-Cola Company, HP, and Intel are advertising [...]
Today Joost send SSBG members (Super Special Beta Group) an announcement about the availability of the new beta cient 0.9.4. So far so good…
The problem is that the communication vehicle used to make the announcement turned out to be an open listserv server that quickly started filling all SSBG members inbox with roughly 100 email [...]
0.9.4 Release
Part of that work is in improving the way the P2P is treated now that we have learned more about its behaviour with a larger population of users and that is why 0.9.4 is being released which has significant performance enhancements, though no new visible features.
Windows Updater Test, 0.9.5
The following is for Windows users only [...]
Since yesterday Joost has added literally hundreds of TV shows to it program list.
As of today Joost has 92 individual TV channels with a total of 3281 TV shows.
This recent additions of show brings the following new channels:
Rhino Records
Since 1978 Rhino has been the worlds preeminent reissue label, producing deluxe editions of classic albums, multi-artist box [...]