Joost Apple Dashboard Widget

Joost has a couple of big Mac fans. If you don’t know many Mac fans you might think they’re all alike in their ardor for Apple and worship for Jobs … but that would be a wildly inaccurate assumption. By my calculations, there are at least three categories of Mac fans.

Category 1: The casual [...]

Joost Beta Client 1.0.4 just got released

For those interested, Joost just released version 1.0.4 of it client. It is primarilly a bug fix release.

You can download the 1.0.4 [...]

MySpace get BBC Video channel

MySpace recently added a new BBC video channels. For now only short videos are sported. Here is an example:

Walking With Beasts: Neanderthal vs Wooly Rhino

The videos are also embeddable:

Walking With Beasts: Neanderthal vs Wooly RhinoAdd to My Profile | [...]

Joost just released the second develper preview

Jim Ley from Joost development team just announced that:

Hi, here’s a new developer release, no new features but we’ve fixed many little bugs in various places, and we may have a fix for the “empty explore” Bug. It isn’t enabled by default, but if you’re seeing this bug add the preference:

user_pref(“tvp.ui.spoonMasking”,false);

to your prefs file and then [...]

OurStage Brings User Picked Content To Joost

Indie music and film site OurStage has announced a new content partnership with Joost that will see user picked content offered to Joost users.Under the deal, OurStage will offer four channels on Joost: Best of OurStage Shorts, Best of OurStage Comedy, OurStage Music Videos and OurStage Artist Access. The channels will give Joost users access to [...]

Industry Veteran Matt Zelesko Joins Joost

NEW YORK – January 16, 2008 – Joost™, the world’s first broadcast-quality Internet television service, today announced that Matt Zelesko, has joined the company as senior vice president of engineering, responsible for all engineering operations. Zelesko will be based in New York, where he will build a second engineering hub for the company, in addition to [...]

Airport Airdisk nearly useless with Leopard 10.5.1

Oh god, I just bought an Airport Extreme 802.11n thinking it would be the best networking experience of my life. I just bricked up my Linksys (flashing power light) by trying to upgrade to openWRT and needed to replace it.

So I picked up an airport extreme at BB along with a nice 360GB USB drive [...]

SubJoost: Subtitles for Joost

Subjoost is a little widget that, on one hand, lets you see subtitles and, on the other hand, allows anybody to create or edit subtitles for Joost shows.

To get subtitles simply download the widget in Joost and enable it for choosing a subtitle. If you want to add or edit a subtitle [...]

Matsushita’s Panasonic, Google to launch Internet TVs

TOKYO (Reuters) – Web giant Google Inc (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) is developing televisions that display Internet content such as photos and videos together with Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd’s (6752.T: Quote, Profile, Research) Panasonic unit.

The TVs, to be launched this spring, will allow users to directly browse and access videos from YouTube, a video-sharing Web [...]

Joost nominated by “The Crunchies”

If you spend as much time reading technology blogs and web sites as I do, surely you’ve heard about The Crunchies. If I had to make a comparison, I’d guess they’re kind of like the Screen Actors Guild Awards People’s Choice Awards of the tech sector – people in technology (or who like technology, or use [...]