The Faces of Social Television [backchannels]
theory.isthereason — The interactive aspect of television runs an entire continuum; from the instinctive changing of channels, to selecting movies on-demand (depending on cable provider), to the more esoteric real-time SMS voting, allowing viewers to affect the program being watched (e.g. American Idol). Ironically, of all the interactive features a television could have, the conversational aspect of television viewing seems strangely absent. Unless you’re watching a televised event in the same physical commune as your family or friends, the traditional media experience still ...

Joost Adds Wizzard’s Producer Line-up to Their Inventory
Mashable! — ... , one of the industry leaders when it comes to professional podcasting solutions, has announced this morning that it’s forming a content partnership with Joost in an effort to both increase circulation for their producers as well as offer the web video portal Joost a wider variety of content and programming. ...

Sling Media video portal takes live TV, clip-sharing online
VentureBeat — Sling Media, known primarily for the SlingBox, a device that can stream your home television signal to you anywhere in the world, is branching onto the web today with the exclusive beta release of Sling.com, a video portal that will let users not only watch premium and live video content, but also share clips of their favorite shows with friends. Sling.com will give users access to a library of video content — movies, television and popular clips from 60 content partners — making it competitive with services like Hulu, Joost and Jadsters. ...

Hulu to stream presidential debates live
CNET News.com — Last year, it was all about "remixing" debate footage , but this year, it's about seeing it live: Video content hub Hulu has secured the right to stream the remaining two presidential debates live on the Web. The first one's on Tuesday night. The news was first reported by PaidContent , and Hulu has launched an Election '08 hub for the live debate as well as past election-related footage. That includes footage from political satire talk shows The Daily Show and The Colbert Report , the only two MTV Networks shows currently on Hulu . This is the first-ever live ...

Hulu Goes Live: Will Stream Presidential Election Debates
ReadWriteWeb — ... the future. Sponsor After this second debate, Hulu will also live-stream the third debate, which will be produced by FOX News. Hulu is jointly owned by NBC Universal and News Corp., which gives Hulu access to both NBC's and Fox's coverage of the debates and also explains why Hulu did not cover the first presidential and the vice-presidential debate. There seems to be a trend among online video sites towards live streaming. Joost, which just debuted its web-based offerings, is also planning to add live streams ...

Video Site Joost Reboots as a Hulu Clone
Bits — The world probably does not need yet another Web site where it can waste precious time watching old episodes of “I Dream of Jeannie,” clips from “The Daily Show” and the Michael Jackson MTV oeuvre. But that is exactly what Joost , the much-hyped Internet video service, is set to give us. On Tuesday, Joost will relaunch as a Flash-based online video hub with free, ad-supported television shows and films — or, in other words, a clone of ...

Joost Launches Flash Version For Browsers: Easier But No Hulu
paidContent — Online video site Joost is finally, officially easier to use. The Flash-based, download-free version for browsers can be accessed now but the full-featured version is supposed to launch at midnight. Joost boasts of having the "largest online library of legal video programming." The company says it has doubled the number of videos in the past 10 months to more than 46,000 with a 50 percent increase in hours for a total of more than 8,000 hours. Content partners include investors CBS (NYSE: CBS) and Viacom; Sony (NYSE: SNE) Pictures Television; Warner Bros. Television Group; ...

Joost Flash Player Launches Tonight, Has Serious Hulu Envy [Joost]
Gizmodo — The poor kids at Joost—and their partners at Viacom—thought the future of TV on the computer would be a discrete app that blended a slick TV emulator with internets! power. They were wrong, Hulu and Google were right: It's all about the browser. So that's where Joost is going. Its Flash-based player officially launches full-throttle tonight. The early word from paidContent is that it's still no Hulu—the best place for CBS content, maybe, but it's got a lot of catching up to do. Though really, it's not clear that it ever can. There's a reason our internet TV ...

Joost gets Flashy, works with virtually any web browser
Download Squad — Filed under: Internet, Video, Web Last month Joost started to launch a browser-based version of its online video service. Up until then, you needed to download a standalone client to watch the TV shows, movies, and video blogs served up by Joost. ...

The New, Easier Joost Is Up
Wired: Epicenter — For a year now, Joost has been moving toward offering video in a browser, based on Flash, with now download software bits required. Although Joost was the first significant company to create broadcast-style video capabilities on the Web, it had quickly worked itself into a strategic hole. To watch Joost, you had to download a separate Joost player, which is more than a lot of people want to do. By early this year, rival Hulu had TV shows and movies in the browser, putting Joost into catch-up mode. So the new Joost is finally up. And it's...OK. Hulu still ...

Joost Gets Serious About Online Video Competition
WebProNews Feed — [image] Launches Browser-Based Player Today, Joost launched a new flash-based version of its popular (but not popular enough) online video service , which will allow users to use it without having to download an application. They announced over a month ago that they would be launching this, but it has just now finally come to fruition. Clearly, Joost has taken notice to sites like Hulu (and even YouTube for that matter, who is beginning to show full-length television episodes) and decided that the only way to compete would be to drop the desktop client in favor of a browser-based platform that ...

thinking that my hometown's republican party needs to grow up: http://tinyurl.com/4yoe9y. stop acting like crapamento!
Politweets — Loader Twitter.com Profile_bird Hey there! dcap is using Twitter. Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people using the web, your phone, or IM. Join today to start receiving dcap's updates. Already using Twitter via SMS or IM? Finish signing up . [image] dcap thinking that my hometown's republican party needs to grow up: http://tinyurl.com/4yoe9y . stop acting like crapamento! 3 minutes ago from web checking out Joost's latest version (browser mode). Is it better than Hulu? http://www.joost.com 1:08 PM Oct 15th from web going ...

@p2wy Oil companies really don't want Obama to win ;)
Politweets — ... 11 hours ago from TweetDeck Pilsbury easy bake cookies 4:21 PM yesterday from TwitterFox Eating pasta! 3:42 PM yesterday from TwitterFox Good Day, But now I'm out of here 2:08 PM yesterday from twhirl @ p2wy Picture everyone naked. (I think that's what you're supposed to do in nervous meeting situations?) 9:28 AM yesterday from twhirl in reply to p2wy Trying out the new Flash based http://joost.com very Hulu-like. Has 5th Element on it. Luv that movie. 8:52 AM yesterday from ...

10 Reasons Why Joost's New Service Fails
ReadWriteWeb — Last week, the internet video service Joost relaunched as a Flash-based online portal, having finally ditched their downloadable player for good. The service, once hyped as the next big thing, has long been overshadowed by the much sleeker Hulu, a joint effort between NBC Universal and News Corp. Joost hoped that with their relaunch they would finally be able to compete again. Having played with the new version of Joost for awhile, it's obvious Hulu has nothing to fear. Joost currently has several issues that need improvement if they ever hope to succeed. ...

Howcast lands $2M more for how-to videos
VentureBeat — Instructional video producer Howcast Media reeled in an additional $2 million in first-round financing from private individuals in the media industry, reports VentureWire. This bumps its total to $10 million, with some funding coming from Tudor Investment. The New York-based website, founded by three ex-Googlers, provides a fairly large library of how-to videos sorted into categories like pets, parenting, fitness and food. For example, there are 12 videos explaining how to successfully break up with someone, 24 videos demonstrating proper oral hygiene, 43 on how to grow your own ...

Homer votando em Obama, gatos pretos protegidos do Helloween e mais nó 10º.
Politweets — Homer votando em Obama, gatos pretos protegidos do Helloween e mais nó 10º. 3 minutes ago from web Bom dia, flor-do-dia. O saco que não tenho está cheião e o 10° Blog atualizado (valeu, Lu). Alguém aí faz template em XML? 6:26 AM Oct 20th from web "I want to forget how convention fits, but can I get out from under it?" 12:29 PM Oct 19th from web Um balde, por favor. 10:27 AM Oct 19th from web Espaço peixe: http://decimoblog.blogspot.com [ATUALIZADO] 9:09 PM Oct 18th from web Perdi. 9:06 PM Oct 18th from web @ anne_n Lagartixas são ...

Palin to be "in charge" of Senate - http://tinyurl.com/5875os
Politweets — Loader Twitter.com Profile_bird Hey there! glenng is using Twitter. Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? Join today to start receiving glenng's updates. Already using Twitter from your phone? Click here . [image] glenng Palin to be "in charge" of Senate - http://tinyurl.com/5875os 11 minutes ago from TweetDeck Hmmmm... suddenly fiber cereal in the morning is actually appealing. 28 minutes ago from TweetDeck ahhhh... ...

DirectTV May Enter Online TV War With “Web On Demand” Service
TechCrunch — We’ve received a couple of anonymous tips that DirectTV, a $24 billion satellite TV provider, may be entering the online TV wars with a new site called DirectTV Web On Demand. The site would compete with startups like Hulu, Joost, Fancast, Sling.com, etc. We don’t know much about the service, or even if its real. An anonymous tipster says they’ve worked on the project and supplied us with the mockup screen shot above, which could quite possibly be real. On the other hand, we’ve spoken with industry insiders and they say ...

TV & the Internet: Get Better Acquainted
Internet Evolution: — ... . Not only can viewers (albeit only U.S. viewers) watch full-length shows and movies, but they can embed video on blogs and other Websites of their own. Hulu isn't the only one trying to blend television and the Web: Another prominent player is Joost , the video startup launched by Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, the billionaire founders of ...

Rumor: Full-Length Movies Coming to YouTube?
ReadWriteWeb — ... Google is having a very hard time monetizing YouTube. While it is one of Google's most successful acquisitions in terms of its userbase (more people now perform searches on YouTube than on Yahoo), it has at best been a loss leader for Google so far. As Sandoval also points out, the video quality on YouTube falls short when compared to some of Google's competitors like Vimeo or services which already specialize in streaming TV shows and movies like Hulu or Joost. Also, the success of this venture would greatly depend on the movie selection. ...

this is sad:'Impeach Obama' groups pop up on Facebook http://tinyurl.com/6jm2uk
Politweets — Loader Twitter.com Profile_bird Hey there! tatiweb is using Twitter. Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? Join today to start receiving tatiweb's updates. Already using Twitter from your phone? Click here . [image] tatiweb this is sad:'Impeach Obama' groups pop up on Facebook http://tinyurl.com/6jm2uk 6 minutes ago from web friends: online and offline. Cool article http://tinyurl.com/6puavt 42 minutes ago from web @ ...

Online movie bargains: $5 or less
Yahoo! Tech Advisors — [image] iTunes just launched its own $5-or-less movie bargain bin, and there's also some choice cheapies on sale at Amazon's On Demand service. Get 'em while they're hot! Apple TV Junkie has the scoop on the new "under $5" page on the iTunes movie store—the cheapest for-purchase iTunes movies are typically $9.99—and there are some pretty solid titles on sale, especially for Ah -nold fans. (Of course, there's no greater bargain than the free movies on Hulu and Joost , but you'll have to sit through commercial interruptions—and that's not really the same now, is it?) Among the ...

Sling Opens Up Its Hulu Competitor To The Public
TechCrunch — Sling Media, the company behind the popular Slingbox TV-streaming hardware devices, has opened the gates to its video portal Sling.com. The site pits Sling directly against competitors Hulu and Joost, allowing users to stream a variety of television shows and movies for free through an intuitive Flash player. Sling’s selection of media is pretty comprehensive, offering content from most of the major networks and studios including Warner, Sony, and MGM (oddly enough, Sling is licensing some of its content from Hulu). The site also offers ...

Sling opens Hulu competitor
CrunchGear — Sling Media, the company behind the popular Slingbox TV-streaming hardware devices, has opened the gates to its video portal Sling.com. The site pits Sling directly against Joost and Hulu (though Hulu is a Sling partner), allowing users to stream a variety of television shows and movies for free through an intuitive Flash player. Sling’s selection of media is pretty comprehensive, offering content from most of the major networks and studios including Warner, Sony, and MGM (Sling is licensing some of its content from Hulu). The site also ...

Joost is loosed on the iPhone. If only it worked…
VentureBeat — ... Joost, the one mega-hyped online video startup, has just launched a free application for the iPhone to allow for mobile access to its videos. With a nice, clear interface, this app could be a winner — if it can get over the performance issues currently plaguing it. ...

Joost for iPhone: Good, As Far as It Goes
Technologizer — joostlogo Joost , the pioneering video site from the folks behind Skype and Kazaa, is available in a new, smaller form tonight: on the iPhone. In some ways it’s quite impressive–it faithfully brings the Joost look, feel, functionality, and content into an app that feels at home on the iPhone. What you think of it will likely boil down mostly to how you feel about the programming that Joost has to offer. Some folks who took a look at the app earlier this evening have been reporting playback problems ; I haven’t encountered any so far, which may be a sign that Joost has worked out some ...

Joost gets back on our radar with an iPhone app
Webware.com — ... If ever there was a web service that experienced a rapid fall from grace, it was online video startup, Joost. What started out as a much anticipated new service, ultimately fell short of expectations and has recently struggled for attention. Today they released an ...

Beyond YouTube: 10 Top iPhone Video Apps
Mashable! — ... this summer enticed a number of third-party developers to make use of the iPhone’s video playback capabilities. The Web-based television outfit Joost [ ...

Ya está disponible Joost para el iPhone, vía WiFi
Celularis — Todos hemos probado alguna vez Joost, incluso desde cuando se llamaba The Venice Project, por lo que podemos dar fé de la gran calidad de video que se logra con su metodología de transmisión. Ahora podremos probarlo en el iPhone, pues acaba de lanzar su propia aplicación para el iPhone con acceso a más de 46.000 vídeos disponibles en Joost. Esta versión, ya disponible en la tienda iTunes, permitirá visualizar peliculas, series y toda la programación de Joost perfectamente customizada para el entorno del iPhone, pero ...

Joost Launches iPhone App
NewTeeVee — Joost launched an iPhone app over the holiday break, making its P2P web TV service mobile. With the app, users can watch Joost’s content library of more than 46,000 videos on the go for free. The service streams video over Wi-Fi connections and not over the phone’s EDGE or 3G ...

Joost Releases iPhone App
SolSie.com — ... Joost, the peer-to-peer video streaming just launched the app for iPhone today. With this app, iPhone users can start streaming Joost’s 46,000-plus Hollywood quality videos including movie & music video (shown below) for free. The streaming requires WiFi connection to work. ...

Joost iPhone App makes us remember Joost again
CrunchGear — Joost launched their iPhone application on the App Store this evening, giving users access to 46,000 Joost videos, including major television shows and films. The iPhone has a built in YouTube application already, giving them a serious head start when it comes to video on the iPhone. But archrival Hulu doesn’t yet - giving Joost a little room to maneuver for now. I’m sure it’s a temporary issue, but the application just doesn’t work yet. I tried to play multiple videos, including the full length version of Men In Black, but an error message reads ...

Joost hits the iPhone, Hulu and Sling to follow?
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — Joost isn't brimming with fantastic content, though there are some interesting titles for sure.  However, it is now on the iPhone (iTunes Link).  Interestingly it works only over Wifi.  While this is a nice little application, it is most important because it means that slightly more exciting applications like Hulu and Slingplayer are both possible.    This class of media broadcaster seems like a great pick for the iPod touch - since AT&T isn't letting ...

Joost now available on iPhone, iPod touch
Macsimum News — Posted by Dennis Sellers Joost—the Flash-based, global web video service—has launched a Joost application for the iPhone and iPod touch. The new free application is available through Apple’s App Store and enables iPhone and iPod touch users to enjoy anime, comedy, drama, movies, music, documentaries, sci-fi and sports over their Wi-Fi connections.   

Joost arrives for iPhone
The Apple Core — December 1st, 2008 Joost arrives for iPhone Posted by Jason D. O'Grady @ 8:31 pm Categories: Software , iPhone , App Store Tags: Apple iPhone , Joost , Corporate Communications , Web Site Development , Web Technology , Digital Video , Marketing , Internet , Personal Technology , Jason D. O'Grady Joost arrives for iPhone Back in April 2007 when I first wrote about Joost it was an invitation-only video streaming service from the wunderkind responsible for Skype and Kazaa. Back then it required ...

Joost now available for iPhone/iPod touch
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: Multimedia, iPhone, App Store, iPod touchJoost, the on-demand video streaming service that came to the Mac a while ago, has now made its way to the iPhone and iPod touch. The video service features music videos, TV shows, and even movies ... and you can now watch all of them on the go. You can browse videos by Joost picks, popular videos, browse videos by category, and search for videos. Joost uses a custom built video viewer, as opposed to the regular video player that is used by the YouTube application. I didn't really like ...

Joost Launches Video iPhone App on WiFi; 3G Capacity Coming Soon
Beet.TV — On-demand web video service Joost's new (and free) iPhone application, launched Monday, streams its entire online library of 45,000-plus videos to users on WiFi networks, according to CEO Mike Volpi. A large portion of the library will be available on 3G within a month: "The technology is basically ready," he says. Volpi spoke to me about the launch from London Monday via video Skype. Joost has a number of big-name content partnerships with companies including CBS, Viacom, Sony, Warner Music Group, Warner Brothers, and Turner, so it has some pretty great videos to offer: 1,200 shorts and ...

First on Mars, Last With the Idea?
NewTeeVee — Hulu. Fancast. Sling.com. Joost. Veoh. These are all video portals trying to be the one-stop online shop for you to enjoy every bit of TV network content. Despite this crowded field of heavy hitters, First on Mars is throwing its hat into the premium content ring ...

Jolicloud netbook OS coming in 2009
Liliputing — The founder of Netvibes is working on a new project - an operating system built for cloud computing applications called Jolicloud. There’s not a ton of information about the OS at the moment, but according to TechCrunch, the operating system will be a stripped down flavor of Linux that’s designed for easy access to online applications like Meebo, Google Docs, and Joost, and Skype. The blurry screenshot that Mike Arrington grabbed shows two things. First, the interface seems to borrow heavily from ...

First on Mars - Flashy web TV aggregator
Download Squad — Filed under: Video, Web There's no shortage of places to find online video these days. Most TV networks offer full length episodes of at least a few shows, and video portals like Hulu and Joost offer content from a wide range of sources. First on ...

Caffeine Helps Video-Playing Macs Stay Awake
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us — Tonya and I were watching The Simpsons (not a habit, but see "The Simpsons Takes Aim at Apple", 2008-12-02) on my MacBook via Hulu the other night, only to be interrupted by the screensaver kicking in every 5 minutes. I could have disabled the screensaver, of course, but I didn't want to stop the program, so I just kept touching the trackpad every few minutes. How stupid is that? That's why I was happy to learn about a free application that solves this problem elegantly. Lightspeed Software's Caffeine puts a tiny coffee cup in your menu bar. Click it and your Mac won't go to sleep, ...

Joost Connects With Facebook [NewTeeVee]
GigaOM Network — Web TV platform Joost launched its Facebook Connect integration this morning, allowing users to log into Joost using their Facebook account. Once in, users can see all of their Facebook friends that are on Joost, interact with them, find out what they are watching and watch with them, as well as ...

CBS Relaunching TV.com; Hoping Finally To Become A Video Player; Aiming Beyond Hulu, Not At It
paidContent — CBS Interactive is relaunching TV.com, hoping to transform the well-named site known for its TV-related community and user-generated content into a serious video destination, paidContent has learned. The full-scale relaunch with new content partners is slated for January but the cosmetic changes will start this week with a new look and logo, according to sources familiar with the plans. TV.com is among the assets CBS (NYSE: CBS) picked up with its $1.8 billion acquisition of CNET last summer. (The other notable non-brand domains: News.com, MP3. com and Radio.com). Despite having the ultimate ...

Joost kills internet video desktop client
Download Squad — Filed under: Internet, Video, Web Two months after launching a web-based version of its online video platform, Joost is turning off its desktop client. Joost, which is the brainchild of some of the folks behind the Skype VoIP software, was ...

Daily Tidbits: Joost kills software application
Webware.com — ... Online video service, Joost, sent emails to its users Wednesday announcing that it has discontinued its software application. Released just a few months ago, the software application will be shuttered as of Friday, December 19. In the email, the company claims that users will still be able to watch its videos online. Panasonic is getting into the social networking realm, it announced Tuesday. According to the company, its new social networking community, Living in HD, is designed to "inspire ideas and spark conversation" among people through ...

Joost Discontinues Its Desktop Client, Now Web Only [Joost]
Lifehacker — [image] Download Squad reports that internet video service Joost will discontinue its desktop player effective December 19th . Joost introduced its web version in October to compete with the popularity of sites like Hulu, and now the online portal will be all that's left. We first covered Joost way back in April of 2007 when the desktop client held a lot of promise, but it looks like the majority of users are perfectly happy to stream video from their browsers rather than download an entirely separate app.

Joost Drops Video App, P2P Features; Website Viewing Is The Main Concentration
paidContent — Online video site Joost will end all software support for its original software application as of this Friday, B&C; reported. The software was a key part of Joost's video distribution through P2P systems. Now, Forrester Research analyst James McQuivey tells B&C;,  the development means that P2P as a way to legally send professional videos to viewers is dead. With broadband penetration growing, allowing for wider viewing of streaming videos, relying on P2P networks is seen by Joost as irrelevant, especially with the rise of Hulu for primetime content. As we said ...

Watercooler Brings Content From Every Major Television Network To Its 16MM TV Fans
TechCrunch — The race is on between sites like Hulu and Joost to bring video content to the web, but as this content becomes more ubiquitous it will be the sites that go beyond basic video streaming that will ultimately be able to differentiate themselves. Watercooler, a development house behind several hundred community-based social network applications, is one company that is positioning itself well for this upcoming face-off. The startup has built up a community of 16 million registered users spanning its TV-centric applications on MySpace, Facebook, and other popular social networks, and ...

Joost Just Gives Up On P2P Altogether
TechCrunch — Joost’s two year old online video service was a pretty darned smart idea when it first launched. Instead of streaming video through the Joost website, users would download a Mozilla-based client and watch it there instead. The user experience could be more tightly controlled. And more importantly, the Joost client had built in person-to-person file sharing. That meant Joost had lower bandwidth bills. It also meant that Joost didn’t need to worry about overloading servers while showing live events - users would just grab the stream from others automatically. ...

Joost to Go Website-only on Friday
Technologizer — After debuting to a great deal of fanfare in 2006, it looks as if Joost will finally be giving up on P2P as a means of delivery for its content. In a message to users of its software application, the company said videos after Friday would only be viewable through the website. The writing may have been on the wall then: Joost launched its web-based platform ...

Joost Abandons Desktop Software, Peer-to-Peer Video Model
Wired: Epicenter — The online video service Joost has killed off its desktop software client, telling users to instead access the service through the website — much the way Hulu, Tv.com and others are doing. The demise of the Joost desktop client (which will officially shut down Friday, Dec 19) is in many ways very predictable, after all, why require a separate download when the very same video can be seen the in the browser elsewhere? But part of the buzz surrounding Joost’s launch (aside from the fact that it involved the creator of Skype) was that the company planned to use ...

Joost Pulls Plug on P2P Service
Contentinople: — Two months after launching a Flash-based online video service, Joost plans to pull the plug on its peer-to-peer based product. When Joost flipped the switch on its P2P service in May 2007, the company -- backed by Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis -- had several blue-chip advertisers lined up, including Coca-Cola, Nike, and Intel. But Joost lacked the high-quality network TV programming that rival Hulu LLC debuted with a year later. Even today, the top program marketed on the Joost homepage is the original Star Trek series. Although Joost offers Web surfers a ...

Goodbye to Joost Desktop App
Technology - Channel Feed — Joost Desktop Application has finally shutdown after they have released their flash based website. The desktop technology of Joost relies on P2P technology which is the same as BitTorrent, Kazaa, and Skype. The website version of Joost now allows it to compete with Hulu, Veoh, and AOL video. I personally like the desktop application though. Tags: Hulu, Joost Share This

Joost Abandons P2P - Or Not? [NewTeeVee]
GigaOM Network — Joost has informed its users via email that it will discontinue the support of its desktop client today and instead completely concentrate on its new web site. This is a big step for a company that once aimed to revolutionize online video with P2P technology, and whose founders previously succeeded ...

Joost discontinues its Client App
SolSie.com — We received notification from Joost about discontinuing its  desktop software application. today to devote 100% of the services as Web-based. As you remember, Joost used the client app using P-to-P technology to mitigate the bandwidth burden in delivery high definition contents, but with the fierce competition of YouTube, Hulu, etc., which do not require client software. Last October, Joost launched their new website, www.joost.com, which lets you watch videos in your web browser, in addition Joost added some other Social Networking services: ...

Video Sites Lead Facebook Connect Implementation [NewTeeVee]
GigaOM Network — Facebook’s authentication system for external sites, Facebook Connect, has only been out for a few weeks, but so far, video sites are contributing the greatest numbers of active users, according to AllFacebook. The leading site by far is Joost, with 13,121 ...

Cisco study: U.S. wins TV and mobile-watching world olympics
VentureBeat — Cisco Systems has released results from its new Visual Networking Index survey looking at video consumption habits around the world, and some of them may surprise you. Among other things, it gauged people’s attitudes toward online, mobile and television viewing of video content in the U.S., China, Germany and Sweden. Below, we’ve broken down the report’s findings for optimum factoid digestion: American internet users spend 2.5 as much time watching professionally-produced content (shows and movies created by studios and distributed through ...

Boxee adds Joost/MTV Music, opens Mac and Linux alphas
Webware.com — ... , one of the more promising media applications out there today, is announcing the launch of a few new content sources today at CES. Boxee now has added support for content from Joost and ...

Boxee Adds Joost and BBC iPlayer
NewTeeVee — Boxee announced today from CES that it has added Joost and the BBC iPlayer to the litany of video services that run on its open source media center. The company also announced that it is opening up its alpha to all Mac, Ubuntu and Apple TV users and that the Windows version is ...

HOW TO: Survive in Tomorrow’s Online Entertainment Industry
Mashable! — Brian Wallace is a social media consultant. He authors a blog at nowsourcing.com/blog. With the economy showing no signs of bouncing back in 2009, consumers will inevitably be searching for channels of escapism, means to momentarily forget their everyday woes, financial and otherwise. Although most e-businesses are bracing for the worst, herein lies a tremendous opportunity for growth in the online entertainment industry. Admittedly, the concept of a singular online entertainment industry is a bit overwhelming, for its segments are diverse and sprawling: websites ...

10 Great Implementations of Facebook Connect
Mashable! — ... How it uses Facebook Connect: Joost was an early partner, and they’ve been quick to integrate - notifications, updates, comments, and favorites all stream into your Facebook. Oh, and of course you can log into Joost with a Facebook account with absolute ease. ...

Where is Facebook Connect Most Popular So Far? Video Sites Joost and Vimeo
Inside Facebook — It has only been one month since Facebook officially launched Facebook Connect. On December 4th, the social network decided to allow its users to carry their credentials and their community of friends with them across the web. Already having an immensely popular platform for developers to build applications, Facebook has now seen hundreds of sites adopt Facebook Connect to allow users to log in, share information with friends, and report some of this activity back to Facebook. Interestingly, two of the most trafficked Facebook Connect integrations to date are from video sites Joost (at ...

First look at Boxee Alpha media center for Windows
Download Squad — Filed under: Internet, Video, Windows, Macintosh, Linux Boxee is a media center application for Mac, Ubuntu Linux, and Windows that's based on the open source XBMC project. The Mac and Ubuntu versions of the media suite have been ...

Where to Watch Obama’s Inauguration on January 20th [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration is turing into one of the biggest events in the relatively young new year. There are thousands of people who are going to Washington D.C. to participate in what is going to be a historic ...

How to get social on Inauguration Day
Webware.com — If you thought that social-media sites were foaming at the mouth on Election Day in an attempt to get the most eye-catching, mashed-up, user-generated gimmicks in place, you might not be too surprised to find out that the social Web has gone just as nutty over the swearing-in of Barack ...

At Least Joost is Doing Well on the iPhone
Mashable! — Once one of the hottest startups around, Joost, has lost a lot of its flare lately. The hype definitely died when they did a 180 in strategy, deciding to focus on a web version of their video client, and the fact that they still offer significantly lesser amount of quality content than their biggest competitor, Hulu, didn’t help either (although I will say that Joost is infinitely better for me because, unlike Hulu, it works outside of the US.) Their iPhone application seems to be doing well, though; today the folks at Joost announced that their free iPhone and iPod Touch ...

Daily Tidbits: Presidential Election, Sarah Palin most inquired topics of 2008
Webware.com — ... Online video platform, Joost, announced Friday that its iPhone and iPod Touch application has been downloaded more than a million times at the Apple App Store. The free app hasn't set any records by reaching 1 million, but the company's representatives were quick to point out that Joost is ahead of other video delivery apps in the market. ...

The Hottest Telecom Startups in Japan
ReadWriteWeb — ... At a time when other organizations are leveraging voluntary distributed computing for tasks like attacking governments they don't like (Hamas v.s Israel in particular) - it's nice to see new applications of this model for positive purposes. We think there's a whole lot of unexplored potential in this type of shared processing power, even if the most high profile consumer service trying it in recent times, the video site Joost, recently backed away from the idea. ...

More than one million Joost iPhone apps downloaded
iPhone Buzz — Joost announced that more than one million iPhone and iPod Touch users have downloaded the free Joost application from Apple's App Store. Over their Wi-Fi connection, iPhone and iPod Touch users can use the global web video service's app to enjoy thousands of hours of movies, comedy, drama,  music, documentaries, sci-fi and sports. Ssince the Joost iPhone App is ad-supported, similar to the web-based version,  this service is free to all the Apple's mobile device users. [via MSNBC]

More than one million Joost iPhone apps downloaded
Top iPhone News — Joost announced that more than one million iPhone and iPod Touch users have downloaded the free Joost application from Apple’s App Store. Over their Wi-Fi connection, iPhone and iPod Touch users can use the global web video service’s app to enjoy thousands of hours of movies, comedy, drama,  music, documentaries, sci-fi and sports. Ssince the Joost iPhone App is ad-supported, similar to the web-based version,  this service is free to all the Apple’s mobile device users. [via MSNBC]

Adobe Looking to Acquire; Who Should It Buy? [NewTeeVee]
GigaOM Network — Adobe Systems’ CEO said recently that the multimedia software giant is in the mood to gobble up some technology startups. And in these economic times — Adobe itself laid off 600 employees in December — that sentiment alone is bound to put a smile on entrepreneurs’ faces. ...

Adding Boxee to Windows 7 Media Center (x86 and x64)
D' Technology Weblog — Boxee is a media center application that stream video from online sources such as Hulu and Joost. These two services provide a wealth of content including full length shows from many of the popular TV networks and even full length movies. Here are the steps to get these features into Windows 7 Media Center: Windows 7 x86 (download link) users download BoxeeTV for Windows MCE, and extract it to your BoxeeTV directory. The files should result in a BoxeeMCE folder (C:\Program ...

Why Does Everyone Heart Boxee? [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — The buzz has been building for Boxee lately. Mainstream news outlets like The New York Times, BusinessWeek and NPR are getting hip to the little open-source media center that could quite possibly change the way you experience TV. I first met Boxee CEO and co-founder Avner ...

CBS Gives March Madness Gives a High-Quality Makeover [NewTeeVee]
GigaOM Network — Hard to believe that the NCAA Mens’ Basketball March Madness Tournament is just around the corner — but it is, and this year CBS Sports is adding a high-quality viewing option to its March Madness On Demand (MMOD) video player. The new player uses Microsoft’s ...

Ooyala to Power Joost [NewTeeVee]
GigaOM Network — NewTeeVee has learned that video platform startup Ooyala will soon power video portal Joost. Representatives for the two companies confirmed that Ooyala would be providing its technology for Joost, but declined to offer further details until they are formally announced. For now, it was made ...

Hollywood Actors Want $759 per Day Residuals For Online Video Content
SitePoint — The future of entertainment on the Web still boils down to dollars and cents, as the Screen Actors Guild and Hollywood studios try to hammer out an agreement. On Tuesday, talks resumed after an eight month long impasse over artist’s share of Web revenues. The core issue is that the SAG is demanding the same money for Web distribution as that of TV and movies. Studios argue, Web revenues will not support the same model. Meanwhile, what we see on the Web, and at what price, remain central issues. The SAG’s base rate of $759 per day, for every actor, in every production ...

Macsimum iPhone Video: How to receive free TV shows, music videos and movies on an iPhone via Joost
Macsimum News — Posted by Dave Merten Joost is a new way to watch videos –- TV shows, music videos, movies and more –- over the Internet. Today’s Macsimum iPhone video demonstrates how to recieve thousands of hours of top TV shows, music videos and music at your fingertips via Joust on an iPhone/iPod touch.

Joost Looks Outside For Tech Help
Silicon Alley Insider — Web video site Joost has signed on with Web video provider Ooyala to power some of its back-end video processing. In theory, the deal will let Joost focus more on building a Web TV service people that more people want to watch. Ooyala will provide video uploading and transcoding services to Joost for some -- not all -- of its content providers, the company says. Joost's users won't notice a thing -- the changes will be on the back end only. What's the point? This is a service that Joost could easily farm out and potentially do for cheaper than it can do ...

TV.com Comes to the iPhone
ReadWriteWeb — ... ) also features shows from CNet, Showtime, and the CW. Currently, the only other app that features full episodes of TV shows is Joost, but we are still waiting for iPhone apps from other TV networks, Hulu, or Sling. ...

Netflix Pays Cash to Stream South Park
NewTeeVee — Cartman & Co. are headed for Netflix, as the movie rental company has signed a deal to stream the first nine seasons of South Park through its Watch Instantly service, reports The New York Times today. South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone ...

Index Ventures infuses biotech and cleantech with new $438.8M
VentureBeat — Index Ventures just announced the closure of $438.8 million fund intended to finance young biotechnology and cleantech portfolio companies. This is the sixth seed and early-stage fund the London-based firm has raised. Perhaps best know for its prescient investments in technologies like Skype, MySQL (sold to Sun Microsystems for $1 billion) and Betfair, Index has been relatively insulated from the economic downturn, and is looking to expand its reach in the health care and green sectors. Despite this stated goal, Index’s most salient investments in the last year ...

Joost Continues Fight For Relevancy, Teams Up With Social Network Netlog
TechCrunch — Don’t count out Joost just yet. We recently wrote it still has a heartbeat despite the fact they made the wrong bet years ago by underestimating the power of the web for watching videos. They finally switched to Flash late last year, giving up on P2P, and introduced some social networking features around the video viewing experience to battle established players like Hulu, TV.com and YouTube. Now it’s taking a step beyond that by forming an alliance with Europe’s leading social networking service, Belgium-based Netlog, theoretically expanding ...

Joost Eyes Traffic From Social Network
Contentinople: — Online video site Joost is turning to European social network Netlog to boost traffic, by striking a deal that will allow Netlog users access to its video library. Under the partnership agreement announced today, Netlog's 40 million members will get access to Joost's library of TV series, movies, and music videos directly from the social networking site's home page. Joost is counting on the social network to help drive traffic from the valuable demographic of teenagers and young adults. About 60 percent of Netlog's members are between the ages of 14 and 24. In addition, Joost is ...

The Joost Review
The ArtLab — Back when Napster was nearing the end of its life as a pirates' bazaar, a few developers introduced KaZaA, a similar P2P application that turned out to be ripe for similar abuses, and which for a time was at the top of the illicit file-sharing world. When legal troubles came their way, the developers sold the application. ...

March Madness Mobilized
dailywireless.org — ESPN Mobile TV has a line-up of live college hoops this month. It includes latest news, live scores, standings and much more. It’s FREE and available on most mobile phones and PDAs. Of course, you need to subscribe to a mobile tv service on your carrier. Big Tournament games are available all month long. ...

Hulu jumps on the social bandwagon with Hulu Friends
VentureBeat — To celebrate its one-year anniversary, Hulu launched its brand new social networking feature, Hulu Friends, today, allowing users to connect the video site to their Facebook and MySpace profiles. The service will record users’ Hulu activities on their newsfeeds, allowing them to discover new videos watched, recommended and shared by their friends and other Hulu users. They can even tie in their Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo address books for broader reach across their entire social orbits. Now, when you sign into Hulu, you’ll find a bunch of new options that let you create a ...

SXSW Trip Report: The Search for a More Social Web
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life — These are my notes from the The Search for a More Social Web talk by Dave Morin. I had expected this talk to be about lessons learned by Facebook along the way as they've built the site. It actually was more of a product launch keynote and overview of recent launches. There was a brief preamble about the history of communications from carrier pigeons and the postal service to telegrams and computers. Computers have become increasingly social from when they were first connected into a major computer network as ARPANET, followed by the creation of the World Wide Web, ...

Tech Tips for Hurricanes, Fires, Earthquakes, and Other Minor Nuisances
Technologizer — ... that some sites have standard fare — news and weather, say. But they’ll kick into action if there’s a severe situation, usually gearing up with local TV broadcasts. For instance, during the Katrina fiasco, Weatherserver had three TV feeds on the air. The National Weather Situation also covered Katrina with six windows showing weather and satellite maps, and TV and radio feeds. Television broadcasts are fairly common across the Net. There’s Joost and MyTVPal and a host of others. My focus is strictly news: You can watch Los ...

Netflix Nabs SpongeBob and South Park [NewTeeVee]
GigaOM Network — Netflix officially announced its deal to stream the first nine seasons of South Park on its Watch Instantly service, and it also announced an agreement to stream Nickelodeon shows like SpongeBob Squarepants, Blues Clues and Dora the Explorer as well. The new ...

Webware Radar: Play games, win cash (or maybe lose it)
Webware.com — ... , a company that helps mobile app developers deliver advertisements, announced Wednesday that it has signed a deal with video site, Joost, to become the company's exclusive provider of video ads in the Joost iPhone app. The ads are now being displayed in the free Joost app. ...

Cross Your Fingers: Zennstrom and Friis Might Buy Back Skype From eBay
ReadWriteWeb — ... We want to see Zennstrom and Friis put on the Skype jerseys again and crank one out of the park. The two have been P2P geniuses since the start, they just got some failure out of their systems with Joost and we want to see what they'll do next with a technology we and millions of other people around the world use every day. ...

Skype Founders Seek to Buy It Back: Why eBay May Say Yes
Mashable! — ... If the founders have control once again, what can users expect from Skype? Do the founders have a plan for expanding Skype? Could they integrate it with their own web TV service Joost? ...

Skype founders seeking to reacquire the company from eBay
TechSpot — Skype's co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis are reportedly approaching private equity firms in an attempt to collect resources for a buy-back of the software company they sold to eBay back in 2005 for $2.6 billion, which later amounted to some $3.1 billion via bonus payouts. Not surprisingly, eBay’s chief executive John Donahoe has openly suggested that he is willing to sell it for the right price ...

Skype founders seeking to reacquire company from eBay
TechSpot — Skype's co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis are reportedly approaching private equity firms in an attempt to collect resources for a buy-back of the software company they sold to eBay back in 2005 for $2.6 billion, which later amounted to some $3.1 billion via bonus payouts. Not surprisingly, eBay’s chief executive John Donahoe has openly suggested that he is willing to sell it for the right price ...

Report: Hulu app coming to the iPhone soon
Webware.com — Silicon Alley Insider is reporting that a dedicated Hulu application is indeed on its way to the iPhone, and should be here in just a few months. SAI says that the application will work over Wi-Fi and AT&T;'s 3G, meaning users will be able to view programming anywhere with a ...

Rumor: Hulu’s iPhone app looks sharp, due soon
VentureBeat — Hulu has done well as a browser-based video destination. So, it’s not surprising to hear (yet again) that the video site is headed to cell phones. An anonymous mobile industry executive says the video service will soon appear on Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch, according to Business Insider. Oh, and the source also says the forthcoming app is “badass.” Hulu’s mobile iteration is expected to resemble its browser cousin for streaming prime time content, and will reportedly work over both 3G and Wifi connections. Since Hulu has always ...

The Pirate Bay is (surprise!) guilty of pirating, but what about Google?
Seth H. Weintraub's blog — ... agree. They obviously cater their results towards Pirates, but technically they don't host the files, they don't download the files, nor do they tell people to download copyrighted material. In fact, much of what's on the Pirate Bay is not copyrighted material and if you look at torrenting in general, there are many many legitimate uses of the technology. Linux OS software distribution comes to mind. Legitimate movie distribution is also another use. Popular video viewing software, Joost , uses torrents to distribute video. So does ...

Hulu May Be Coming To iPhone
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — Hulu.com is working on bringing its television-streaming service to the iPhone 3G and iPod Touch, according to a report from Silicon Alley Insider . The app reportedly will be in the App Store within a few months, and it will enable mobile users to watch TV shows and movies over Wi-Fi and 3G. The app will only work when the user has a steady mobile Internet connection, and it probably won't work over an EDGE connection due to bandwidth needs. Representatives from Hulu and Apple did not respond to press inquiries for comment as of press time. ...

Hulu May Be Coming To iPhone
TechWeb — Hulu.com is working on bringing its television-streaming service to the iPhone 3G and iPod Touch, according to a report from Silicon Alley Insider . The app reportedly will be in the App Store within a few months, and it will enable mobile users to watch TV shows and movies over Wi-Fi and 3G. The app will only work when the user has a steady mobile Internet connection, and it probably won't work over an EDGE connection due to bandwidth needs. Representatives from Hulu and Apple did not respond to press inquiries for comment as of press time. ...

Time Warner Cable Reportedly Mulls Bid For Joost
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily — Time Warner Cable (TWC) is reportedly one of a number of companies mulling a bid for the struggling online video service Joost, CNET reports. The piece says Joost is “actively seeking a buyer,” and has been talking to both satellite and cable providers. Joost, founded by Skype and Kazaa fonders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, has struggled to find an audience, while online video services from other companies, including Hulu.com, Netflix (NFLX), YouTube (GOOG) ...

Rumor: Losing Juice, Joost Looking to Sell
NewTeeVee — Joost is looking to sell itself and become an online video platform for cable or satellite operators, with Time Warner Cable supposedly interested, according to an anonymously sourced article at CNET. When asked about it, a Joost rep provided us with a “we don’t comment on ...

Joost: For sale, or just fortifying?
VentureBeat — The buzz in the online vid biz is that Joost, a once touted video portal, might be headed for a buyout. After two years of going it alone, the company is rumored to be in talks with Time Warner Cable and satellite providers for a possible deal, reports CNet’s anonymous source. Though this is still considered speculation (a Joost spokesperson said the company doesn’t comment on rumors), it’s fair to say the company has seen its share of ups and downs. When Joost launched in 2007, it was touted as the visionary harbinger for the future of television. ...

Rumour: Time Warner to buy Joost
Techradar - All the latest technology news — According to latest reports, a number of major US media outlets – including Time Warner – are considering buying internet TV company Joost. Joost, launched by the founders of Skype and Kazaa, is soon to finalise a deal with a buyer, according to an unnamed source on CNet. While it was surrounded by considerable hype upon launch back in 2007, Joost has singularly failed to win considerable support from content-providers or from advertisers and, as such, has faded into the background over the last year. Sony slaps down Joost "The firm was recently slapped in the ...

Joost Shopping For Cable TV Buyer
Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis founded Joost after the success they had with Skype and Kazaa.  Joost is not exactly a success story despite all of the funding the company has raised.  From Sequoia Capital itself, Joost raised $45 million.  Now the company is in talks for an acquisition. Time Warner is in talks with the company according to a source with the Associated Press.  Time Warner wants to buy Joost at a low price which is bad for Sequoia.  Supposedly Comcast has already turned down buying Joost beause they already own a competing service called Fancast.  Viacom and ...

Mobile Video: So Many Apps, So Little Time
NewTeeVee — Nearly every day, it seems, I hear about a new mobile video application or service. Yesterday, it was PrimeTime2Go for BlackBerries. Today, it was Poptiq for BlackBerries. (Hey, it’s not all about the iPhone!) If you’re anything like me, you’re probably having trouble keeping them all ...

Could Adobe be open-sourcing Flash?
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — Over the years, Adobe has become more Linux friendly. First, Adobe released an excellent version of its Flash Player for Linux , and, more recently, the company launched a version of AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) for Linux . Now, however, with Strobe, its just announced Flash framework, Adobe looks like it may be getting more open-source friendly as well. Strobe , which will show up in the 3rd quarter of 2009, is an open framework for creating SWF (ShockWave Flash) server-side players. With Strobe, content creators and Web developers will be able to easily create sites that ...

Joost releases standalone desktop player
Download Squad — Filed under: Internet, Video Popular video site Joost has just announced the launch of their new desktop player. To quote our own Brad Linder, "Can haz irony?" Joost started out as a desktop app, which, if you remember, was just killed off in ...

Channel 4 to Make its Entire Catalogue of TV Programs Available Online for Free
The Next Web — ... Similar to Joost, Channel 4 has taken the decision to close its 4oD desktop application once all the archived content is available via Channel4.com. ...

The velvet rope: 10 exclusive tech betas
Webware.com — The private beta is an art form. It can make a service seem exclusive and important, even if the site's creators are just trying to keep it from imploding from an influx of new users. While Web developers have long used this control system to do pre-launch bug mashing, certain sites have made it ...

Joost Reorgs to Focus on Video Platform
Contentinople: — Online video firm Joost is taking a new strategic direction, and is restructuring the company to focus on selling a white-label video platform. Joost has whittled down its personnel to a "core team" of employees in New York and London that will work on selling its technology as a white-label video platform. Joost spokesperson Kerry Vance wouldn't comment on how many employees were let go as part of the re-org. There has also been a bit of shuffling in the senior exec ranks, as Mike Volpi, who famously took the CEO job at Joost after an acclaimed career in the telecom sector, has stepped down ...

When Hype Isn't Enough: Joost Changes Strategies and Will Now Focus on White Label Solutions
ReadWriteWeb — ... seemed like nothing could go wrong here, but somehow, Joost never managed to get any traction and after the first hype had died down, most users just abandoned the desktop player for in-browser video sharing sites like YouTube. After a long delay, Joost also finally abandoned its desktop player strategy, but by then, users had already moved on and the company never managed to attract a large enough user base as YouTube and Hulu became increasingly popular. Today, Joost announced that it is mostly abandoning its original strategy and that the ...

Joost Says It Has No Future As Portal, Enters White-Label Market; Volpi Out As CEO
paidContent — Much-hyped video portal Joost is remaking itself as a “cost-effective” white-label video provider—slashing staff, closing and shaking up its top ranks in the process, possibly as a step towards its sale as a technology company rather than an entertainment platform. Mike Volpi, rumored of late to be on the short list for a variety of top jobs, is stepping down as CEO but will remain as an active chairman. Adding to the idea that Joost could wind up acquired by a cable operator, Matt Zelesko, the SVP of engineering who joined from Comcast ...

Joost is dead, long live... no, Joost is pretty much dead
Download Squad — Filed under: Internet, Video, Web One upon a time, Joost was supposed to be the future of online video. The project was founded by the makers of Skype as a way to deliver high quality video over a peer to peer network using a standalone application ...

Joost juices consumer focus, goes white label
The Next Web — Troubled online video startup Joost has announced a major restructure. Proving just how hard it is to succeed in their market, the company will switch focus from being an ad-funded video platform to a white label solution for businesses. In a blog post today CEO Mike Volpi announced that although the existing video platform would continue to operate, the company’s primary offering would be backend solutions for media companies wanting to offer video on the web. Many staff are being laid off as part of the move, with Volpi himself stepping down as CEO but remaining at the company as ...

Joost Is Further Fading Into Irrelevance
Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — Joost was started by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis back in October 2006.  The company raised about $45 million in funding shortly after starting up.  Investors included Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Viacom, CBS and Li Ka-shing.  Joost killed off their desktop application and became purely a web service in September 2008. Joost announced that they have replaced former CEO Mike Volpi.  Joost SVP of Engineering Matt Zelesko will be replacing Volpi.  However Volpi will remain as Chairman of the board. As a result of ...

Joost Reinvents Itself - Again
Bits — Joost , the online video site, is starting over with a new service and business model, the third in as many years. On Tuesday, the start-up, which will continue to offer free online television shows and movies, announced that it would shift its energies to providing white-label online video platforms — essentially licensing its technology to broadcasters and other media companies that want to offer video on their sites. Matt Zelesko, currently senior vice president of engineering, will take over as chief executive from Mike Volpi, who will remain chairman. Joost will also close its ...

Bits: Joost Reinvents Itself - Again
NYT > Technology — Joost , the online video site, is starting over with a new service and business model, the third in as many years. On Tuesday, the start-up, which will continue to offer free online television shows and movies, announced that it would shift its energies to providing plain-label online video platforms — essentially licensing its technology to broadcasters and other media companies that want to offer video on their sites. Matt Zelesko, currently senior vice president of engineering, will take over as chief executive from Mike Volpi, who will remain chairman. Joost will also close its ...

What Went Wrong With Joost? [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... Joost, a much-vaunted online video startup, today announced that it will offer a white-label video hosting platform, thus entering a crowded market littered with the carcasses of other failed video hosts. The company is ...

Joost Starts to Fade Away
Technologizer — Joost was supposed to be a major part of the future of TV. Instead, the streaming video service went from hot startup to a candidate for “Whatever Happen To?” lists surprisingly quickly. On Tuesday, news broke that it’s refocusing on providing white-label video services, ...

Joost takes focus away from video streaming
Techradar - All the latest technology news — Joost, the online video portal, has announced it is change tack when it comes to how it manages its business, and is to focus most of its efforts on the technology behind its video portal instead of the portal itself. Joost's CEO Mike Volpi has announced he is to step down as CEO but will stay in the company as chairman. In a statement, he mentioned the restructuring of the site, explaining: "It's been increasingly challenging to operate as an independent, ad-supported online video platform. In order to position ourselves well for the future, we began investigating additional lines of ...

Joost scaling back, to offer white label video service: Joost...
Lost Remote — > Joost scaling back, to offer white label video service: Joost had high hopes of become the premium video destination on the web, a space that’s now largely occupied by Hulu. So now CEO Mike Volpi is out, massive layoffs are on the way, and the company announced it’s shifting from a consumer focus to offering a white label technology and distribution service.

Joost abandons consumer video market, waves "white label" flag
Yahoo! Tech Advisors — [image] Most people think of Hulu when it comes to streaming free network TV shows over the Internet, but Joost was there first, beating Hulu to the punch by more than a year. But Joost never quite caught on, and the once-pioneering company now says it will give up on the consumer video market altogether. The Wall Street Journal reports that Joost, which went into private beta in early 2007, opened to the public later that year, and even launched an iPhone app last December, has replaced its CEO, while Advertising Age says that the company has laid off about 70 of its 90 employees. As ...

Hulu beatdown leads Joost to say goodbye to consumer video
Ars Technica — Joost, the P2P online video service once hailed as the new way to watch TV, has announced that it's ditching its consumer video offerings. Instead, the company plans to offer services to other media companies—such as cable and satellite providers—as a "white label video platform." The company will be doing quite a bit of restructuring in order to accommodate its new role by shedding employees and replacing its CEO. Joost originally sprang forth from the minds of Skype's Janus Friis and Kazaa's Niklas Zennström in 2006, dubbed originally as The ...

What Does Joost's News Mean for Ooyala?
Contentinople: — Yesterday Joost said it was shifting gears to sell its online video platform. But what does that mean for Ooyala Inc. , for whom Joost was a customer, a partner, and now... a competitor? And what does it mean for former Joost chairman Mike Volpi, who still sits on Ooyala's advisory board? Back in February, Ooyala announced that it had developed a co-branded version of its Backlot video management platform with Joost to enable some of the video site's content partners to upload videos to Joost.com . But now that Joost is de-emphasizing the online video site, where does ...

Should Apple buy Joost—or license some of its technologies?
Macsimum News — Posted by Dennis Sellers Folks are always speculating about companies that Apple should buy, so I’ll add another to the list for discussion: Joost, an Internet television service. For now.

First Broadcaster to Join Comcast’s OnDemand Online: CBS [NewTeeVee]
GigaOM Network — CBS announced today that it will become the first broadcast network to join Comcast’s OnDemand Online trial program this summer. According to the press release, the partnership will “expand the number of top-rated TV shows available online,” but didn’t provide any specifics about ...

Twitter remote control
Hack a Day — We’ve already brought you a homemade Twitter-enabled washing machine, and toilet, but now a new innovation is being brought to the table by a bigger player. IBM is working on a tweeting television remote, which would allow the user to inform the world what they are ...

Skype founders sue eBay for copyright violations
VentureBeat — Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis filed suit today against eBay, the owner of their the intenet telephone technology since 2005, alleging that the auction site violated a copyright agreement that it wouldn’t share the proprietary code powering the service. The suit is officially being brought by Joltid, another company owned by the duo — which, incidentally, also founded video-sharing site Joost. The trouble started when eBay moved on plans to sell off most of Skype to three private equity firms: Silver Lake Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and ...

Joost sues Mike Volpi and Index Ventures over theft of information used in Skype bid
VentureBeat — Joost and the founders of Skype have filed a lawsuit against its former chief executive and chairman, Mike Volpi, for alleged theft of company information that was used in the successful bid for Skype. It also named Volpi’s venture capital firm, Index Ventures, which he joined after leaving video-sharing firm Joost. Joost was founded by Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom. On Sept. 11, they announced that Volpi was stepping down as chairman of Joost and that the company was investigating his actions while chairman. Volpi had quit his job as chief executive of ...

Eleven Sites for Watching and Downloading Free TV and Movies
Technologizer — Last week I told you about Sling’s MediaCatcher, the device that’s ideal for viewing streaming videos on your TV, as well as MediaGate’s MG-800HD, the other gizmo for watching downloaded movies on your TV. (See “Stream Movies from Your PC to Your TV.”) This week ...

More dramatic developments after the liquidation of Joost UK
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — First, it looked like the days of the internet TV company Joost might be numbered. After their UK arm was liquidated a couple of days ago, the headquarters in Leiden declined to comment on the future of the company, while emails to its New York branch bounced back. Now things have got even ...

"Social TV" is Here: Facebook Connect is Emerging as Powerful Catalyst for Video Views and Joost Integration Proves It
Beet.TV — Facebook integration around video got its first high profile exposure with CNN and the Inauguration of President Obama, but the first was last year's collaboration with Joost. A spokesperson for Facebook has told Beet.TV: "Joost users who have connected their Facebook accounts continue ...

Babelgum Shutters 2 European Offices [NewTeeVee]
GigaOM Network — Babelgum is closing down its Dublin headquarters and an office in Nice, according to a report in paidContent, moves that could signal the end is near for the online video site. Babelgum says the cuts will allow it to streamline its business to “ensure continued ...

Babelgum Shutters 2 European Offices
NewTeeVee — Babelgum is closing down its Dublin headquarters and an office in Nice, according to a report in paidContent, moves that could signal the end is near for the online video site. Babelgum says the cuts will allow it to streamline its business to “ensure continued ...

Joost Virtually Dead. Assets get acquired.
The Next Web — ... the largest independent global audience and content network, announced today that it has acquired certain assets from privately-held Joost, the online video service. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. ...

Joost Acquired By Online Ad Firm Adconion
NewTeeVee — After three years of trying — and failing — to make a business out of running an online video portal, Joost has been acquired by advertising and branded entertainment firm Adconion Media Group. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but the acquisition ...

Joost Acquired By Online Ad Firm Adconion [NewTeeVee]
GigaOM Network — After three years of trying — and failing — to make a business out of running an online video portal, Joost has been acquired by advertising and branded entertainment firm Adconion Media Group. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but the acquisition ...

Joost Assets Acquired By Adconion Media Group
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily — Alas, not all Web video sites can be quite as successful as YouTube and Hulu. Adconion Media Group, which describes itself as “the largest independent global audience and content network” this morning announced that it had acquired “certain assets” of the once red-hot Joost, the video site created by the founders of Skype. Terms were not disclosed. I’m guessing it was in the vicinity of “not much.” Adconion said the acquisition will allow it “to ...

Adconion Acquires Assets Of Joost To Increase Online Video Business
ChannelWeb Complete Feed — Adconion Media Group on Tuesday said it has acquired part of online video service provider and YouTube wannabe Joost in a bid to boost its ability to build a broad video ...

Top 10 ways to Watch Full Movies
TechnoBuzz.net — There are so many site are available on the net which will help you to watch full length Movies online, but here am giving you the list of 10 best websites which have lots of full length movies. So check out the list below, and leave your comments about them. 1. Hulu Hulu is the first place I go online when I want to find quality, free, full length movies. They’ve got a good selection of movies here, and they are all easy to find with good organization. 2. Surf The ...

Joost Assets Snapped Up by Adconion
Digital Trends — joost Audience measurement and content firm Adconion has acquired "certain assets" of crumbling video service Joost...including the Joost site and brand. A couple years ago, Joost was the darling of a nascent online video industry, featuring peer-to-peer technology from Skye and Kazaa founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis couples with social networking features and the promise of full-screen Internet television. However, despite some high-profile partnerships, Joost never really took off the company eventually abandoned its customer client software then dissolved into a maelstrom of ...