Joost Network Presentation (video)

Here are 5 videos making up a 40 minutes presentation given by Colm MacCarthaigh at INEX about Joost. The is the infamous presentation that leaked the Joost plans for content partners. This video presentation was not the source of the leak. It was rather the PDF version of the Power Point slides shown [...]

XBOX 360 three red lights of death

My good old trusty XBOX 360 just died yesterday! I mean… this is really bad. I got the console on launch day and enjoyed it ever since. I had gotten the occasional red ring of death but it always fixed itself by doing a power off/power on. I could not justify getting [...]

Joost about to support User Based channels

One of the things I wanted to get on Joost was support for user provided program lineup. I found out last night that this is about to change. I discovered that the beta client 0.10.3 now support the ability to drag and drop URL pointing to channel list in XML format.

What this does is [...]

Will ISP spoil the free online video distribution?

With an ever greater amount of video being consumed online, many Internet users are in for a shock. There’s a dirty little secret in the broadband industry: Internet Service Providers (ISPs) don’t have the capacity to deliver the bandwidth that they claim to offer. Unlimited doesn’t always mean unlimited, as many ISPs impose a ‘fair use’ [...]

Blogging from within Joost now available

Joost beta client 0.10.3 now allow you to write blog post directly while watching Joost.

There is a new Widget available that allow you to specify your blog URL, User ID and Password to use to post a new entry.

Then simply type the desired subject (like I did here) and type away! All this while watching [...]

No. 2 Car is Joost™ at the Indy 500

During the 91st running of the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, May 27, the Joost™ logo will be prominently displayed on the No. 2 Vision Racing Dallara/Honda/Firestone driven by Tomas Scheckter.

Earlier this month, IndyCar® Series and Indianapolis 500 announced that racing fans around the world can find their favorite IndyCar Series and Indianapolis 500 programming on [...]

Joost 1000th Club Member #1

I finally made it!

Today I have reached the 1006 sent invites mark. This make me one of the 1st member of the select “Joost 1000th Club”. Here is the Proof… don’t worry about all the “a a” names

I always send the invitations using “a” as first and last name. Much faster [...]

Joost beta client 0.10.3 now available

Today, in a brief message Joost announced:

We’re glad to be able to announce a new version of Joost. You’ll see that we’ve fixed some bugs since the last release, which should improve your experience. See the release notes for more information.

I have had the luxury of running this version of the client for the past 10 [...]

Google testing AdSense Video Ads

Today website content is much more than just text – it’s also video. As the importance of online video increases, we think it’s important to deliver users relevant video ads, give advertisers a new way to reach customers online and help publishers earn additional revenue from their video content. Starting today we will begin an in-stream [...]

StreamCast sues Joost

p2pnet.net news:- Morpheus owner StreamCast Networks is suing eBay, Skype, Joost, Niklas Zenstromm, Janus Friis and seven others.

It claims Zennstrom and Friis, the founders of Kazaa, “profited handsomely from the sale of Skype to eBay only after they and others improperly and secretly transferred away the rights to the FastTrack technology in violation of a license [...]