The April IANA port-numbers list now show that UDP and TCP port 4166 belong to Joost.
As of beta 0.9.2 those ports are not currently used by Joost. It is highly likely that Joost will stop using “unregistered” TCP port 5223 and UDP port 33333 in favor of the IANA ones to transport it’s traffic.
Port mapping will most likely go as:
- UDP 33333 -> UDP 4166
- TCP 5223 -> TCP 4166
In it’s current form the beta 0.9.2 client requires the following port to run:
- TCP access, outbound, to ports 80, 443 and 5223.
- UDP access, outbound, to port 33333.
- If you have a public IP address and UDP inbound on port 33333 is unfiltered, the client may use UDP on port 33333 inbound.
- If you want to chat from within Joost, you’ll also need to enable inbound TCP access to port 5223.
Update:
Just found out that Colm MacCarthaig is the registered owner. Colm is an employee of Joost.
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Rutget Desmet:
As described earlier by Dirk-Willem, we shipped a batch of machines to Los Angeles to setup a long tail storage cluster and a version of our website. After having the servers had spend a good week of quality time with the U.S. Customs, we managed to get them delivered to our data center and proceeded to set them up. When you now use the latest beta client and you are in the United States, it is very likely that you will be peering with one of these new servers. This will provide faster access to content to those who are not in Europe.
Credits: Pictures taken by Justin Erenkrantz.
Next up will be two more data centers around the world that will provide faster access to other parts of the world. As this one of our first roll outs it had its bumps, but overall it went pretty smoothly. I would like to thank the operations team and honory team member Justin Erenkrantz for making this all reality.
Source: joost.com
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So far Joost content could only be searched and selected using the client UI. Joost is about to release a client update that will support content access via URL links tied to a Web search feature hosted by Joost.
For example, to get a list of available Joost channels one could access:
http://www.joost.com/search?q=+type%3Achannel
Producing:
Simply select one of the channels and you will get a list of all available program like:
If you want to watch one of those show simply click on it’s name to get the show details:
And if this is what you are looking for then click on “Click to start Joost” link.
This will allow Joost users to create online show library to share with friends. It will allow them to browse and search for new content while on the road and then email a link to what they want to watch the next time they use Joost.
Another very interesting Joost search link is one like:
http://www.joost.com/search?order=recent&count=60
That will quickly show you what is new on the platform.
Think about what else could emerge from this:
- Inline browser Joost playback a la Youtube with the option to maximize to the full UI.
- Another nice search could be “What is Popular now” to tune into what most other Joost users (or maybe a select group of Joost freinds) are watching.
Enjoy the new found search feature… and if you have ideas about what else could be cool let me know!
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hyperdistribution has pointed me to an audio interview of Mark Pesce given to ABC Radio Australia about Joost.
In the interview Mark spoke of things he eard from inside Joost regarding hard work being done on a future Joost set-top box. It would be the kind of box you connect to your TV and to the internet to access content on Joost.
Joost see it as very important to remove the PC barrier and allow a much better living room integration via a little appliance beside your TV. Who would want a bulky and noisy PC in the living room just to watch Joost? Not me. I would much prefer a DVD sized box instead!
Is it possible that the set-top box development be the reason Joost has not yet released a Linux client? Let see. An intel Mac client is already available… but no Linux beta client. Discussion with Joost people revealed that there is actually a working Linux Joost client… Some of Joost back end servers actually run Ubuntu Linux! So why not the client? (Note that source at Joost has not confirmed that the Linux client was on par with it’s Mac/Windows cousins… but one would think it is).
The reason might be this: releasing a Linux client in the wild might steal Joost set-top box thunder. Imagine Linux Hackers (in the true sense of hackers) possibly building a set-top box around the Linux client and other multimedia applications before Joost release theirs… this would be bad news.
I think this is (OK, might be ;-0) why.
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“Comcast is not blocking access to Joost in any way, and our customers should have no problem accessing the beta application on its site,” said Jennifer Khoury, a Comcast spokeswoman.
Users who experienced a service interruption were likely operating with a previous version of Joost, according to Joost chief technology officer Dirk-Willem van Gulik.
“Comcast is not blocking access to Joost in any way, and our customers should have no problem accessing the beta application on its site,” said Jennifer Khoury, a Comcast spokeswoman.
Users who experienced a service interruption were likely operating with a previous version of Joost, according to Joost chief technology officer Dirk-Willem van Gulik.
Source: http://www.pcmag.com/
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High-flying startup StumbleUpon has been rumored to be in acquisition discussions since at least last November. A source with knowledge of the deal now says the company has signed a term sheet with eBay to be acquired. StumbleUpon lets users rate websites via a browser toolbar. The company expanded into video referrals in late 2006.
The StumbleUpon site says they have 2.1 million users, up from 1.7 million in December 2006. 4+ million sites are “stumbled” daily.
StumbleUpon has only raised a single $1.5 million round of seed financing.
Comscore says StumbleUpon had 6 million U.S. page views in March, doubling from the prior month.
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Summary source: http://www.techcrunch.com/
It appear that Fueled by Ramen will have it’s own channel on Joost. The channel will offer the latest and greatest videos from FBR bands like:
- Gym Class Heroes
- Paramore
- The hush sound
- The Kinison
- Panic! At The Disco
- etc
About Fueled by Ramen:
Fueled By Ramen began the same way most independent record labels do. Two people with a passion for music wanted to help the bands/ friends they loved spread their music to the masses. But what makes FBR’s beginnings unique are the people responsible for its creation.
Vinnie, the drummer for Less Than Jake, and college freshman John Janick started FBR in 1996 when John moved to Gainesville, Florida to attend school. The unlikely pair had met at a Less Than Jake show a year earlier and decided to combine their talents and contacts to form Fueled By Ramen. FBR was officially born when John and Vinnie released the now infamous take-out sampler in August of 1996. The cassette tape contained songs from various artists and was creatively packaged like Chinese take-out.
Fueled By Ramen’s first offices were John’s dorm room and Vinnie’s apartment. First releases include a number of rare, e-bay worthy seven inches, flexi discs and limited press run cds from bands like Less Than Jake, Bigwig, The Hippos and The Impossibles. In the winter of 1998, John went on tour with LTJ and sold all the Fueled By Ramen releases to date. High sales and an enormous response from fans prompted John and Vinnie to move FBR operations out of their homes and into a “real” office at the beginning of 1999.
Since then, Fueled By Ramen has grown exponentially and has released over 50 albums during its six-year existence. John and Vinnie have also achieved success in their “other full time jobs” – John, college and grad school and Vinnie, Less Than Jake – while managing the day-to-day operations and growth of their label. FBR’s in-house staff has grown from two to eight people with a number of marketing tasks being outsourced to companies throughout the U.S. FBR’s distribution has expanded to Europe and Japan, and over the years the label has served as home to a few international acts as well. Although often characterized as a “punk” label, FBR’s musical direction has expanded to the point where many pop, hardcore, indie and electronic acts play a prominent role in the label’s sound and future.
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Microsoft, a veteran defendant of epic antitrust battles in the United States and Europe, is urging regulators to consider scuttling Google’s plan to buy DoubleClick, an online advertising company.
Bradford L. Smith, Microsoft’s general counsel, said in an interview yesterday that Google’s purchase of DoubleClick would combine the two largest online advertising distributors and thus “substantially reduce competition in the advertising market on the Web.”
Google dismissed Microsoft’s assertions. Microsoft was one of the companies, along with Yahoo and Time Warner, that lost out to Google in the bidding for DoubleClick. Early last year, Google complained to regulators that the design of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser steered users to Microsoft’s MSN search engine instead of rival search offerings from Google and Yahoo.
In that case, Google did talk to antitrust officials in Europe and the United States. Mr. Smith said Microsoft had not yet approached antitrust officials in the United States about its worries about Google’s purchase of DoubleClick.
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Summary Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/technology/16soft.html
Update:
Now that this story has hit the front page of Digg (and since taken down as inaccurate) it becomes apparent that it is a false alarm. Many Comcast users are reporting success in using Joost. Keep reading if you are interested in the original post.
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Apparently Comcast subscribers have major issues running Joost. Users of the ISP are reporting that they can’t actually watch content on Joost. Here is what one of them has to say:
I also have Comcast and the inbound and outbound activity indicates that barely anything is getting through. Its outrageous to think that an ISP would block something like Joost, yet continue to allow bit torrent and other bandwidth intensive app. There is nothing other than comcast in many rural areas, thus many people will be entirely unable to use Joost.
Another Joost user claim:
I’m confident that Comcast is blocking joost. There are probably other ISPs doing this too.
I regularly use wireshark (http://www.wireshark.org) in my work in voip, so i did a “netstat -abno > netstat.txt” at the command line and used the find function to locate all of the port usage for “tvprunner.exe”. Here’s my resultant wireshark display filter:
“tcp.port==22289 || tcp.port==6430 || tcp.port==6319 || tcp.port==6320 || tcp.port==6321 || tcp.port==6322 || tcp.port==6333 || tcp.port==6431 || udp.port==22289 || udp.port==6345 || udp.port==6325″
I’ve got tons of chatter outbound, but virtually nothing inbound, except for periodic responses from 212.8.163.11 to my port 6333.
Though they eventually unblocked SIP (UDP 5060) for me, for a long time I had to use all sorts of tricks to get around the port blocking in order to work from home. I doubt they’re gonna budge on this one though.
Anti-competitive !@#$%^&*()s!, Comcast! If I could get any other fast connection… as soon my local metro fiber project comes past my house I’ll be dropping you like a bad habit. 
Is it actually true? I can’t tell right now. Is it done intentionally?
Is it a side affect of trying to limit Peer-2-Peer bandwidth across their network? If it is then this could spell trouble for Joost as it will heavilly rely on peer-2-peer for video content distribution.
Let monitor this and see what Comcast has to say about the whole issue.
Digg this story
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When talking about Joost, people tend to focus on its P2P infrastructure, its media center-like interface and its content deals. Now those are all valid points, but the real key to Joost’s success may be something else: A metadata framework that might just revolutionize the way we watch television.
…The company doesn’t schedule any interviews for the time being, and official news releases simply repeat the mantra of combining “the best of full-screen television entertainment with online interactive and community benefits.”
…Joost has been hiring some of the brightest minds in the field of creative metadata wrangling, and there are indicators that they are working on some mighty magic.
…The notion of using this type of data for some creative mashups first came up on the Ironic Sans blog, where a Joost fan by the name of David Friedman brainstormed about a feature that he would like to see in the client: The ability to share comments on the programming based on each show’s timeline.
“Imagine watching a show like Heroes once, and then watching it again with comments turned on to see what other people caught that you missed.”
…We do however know that Joost also hired Dan Brickley, who is one of the inventors of FOAF – a RDF-based metadata framework that makes it possible to transform simple web pages into machine-readable social networking nodes.
We also know that Joost makes extensive use of such metadata frameworks to build the programming and community features of its service.
…What if the Lost folks didn’t do their next Alternative Reality Game on the web, but in Joost itself, allowing you to collaborate with your friends and collect clues while watching the show?
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