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Joost Brings Television To The Internet Age (Finally)

On demand internet TV has been just around the corner since the dawn of the popular internet, but like flying cars, it’s still not here. The problem is how TV streams clog the internet’s tubes. Bandwidth may be cheap, but there’s still never enough of it.

Well, that’s true if your metaphor for the internet is a hub and spoke system. Not so if you think of it as a mesh.

Kazaa and Skype creators/founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis are mashing up peer-to-peer distribution with the mainstream media and turning our computers into expensive TV tuners.

Joost (pronounced “juiced”) is graphically beautiful and very easy to use, though surprisingly slow on my Mac Mini (it runs fine on my MacBook Pro). Zach set me up with an invite when he heard I had no cable in my new home (“ahh, look at the media deprived dork, give’m an invite”). And when he flipped to World of Stupid I couldn’t resist.

Sandee’s not altogether pleased, though there is other content. Some.

At least it’s easy to use. A drag and drop install, launch, login, browse, watch. In the background the software is streaming the program in from other peers on the network — people like you — and back out to even more people. It’s watching your viewing habits, and though the few commercials running now won’t reveal it, you have to imagine the ads will become more targeted as advertisers start to understand the service.

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Posted April 18, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: Joost, old media, on-demand, p2p, peer to peer, ptptv, streaming, television, tv, video.

9 Comments

Comment by Infoaddict on April 19, 2007 7:14 pm
This was mentioned at the Innovative Ideas forum held at the NLA (Australia: http://www.nla.gov.au/initiatives/meetings/iif07prog.html) yesterday. Apparently the ABC (http://abc.net.au) is looking into rebroadcasting some of its content through Joost. This is pretty cool and I’m sure I’ll be more interested once I get that satellite dish up on my roof …
Comment by Jenny on April 22, 2007 10:36 pm
ouch, where are my joost props?
Comment by Jack on April 26, 2007 11:56 pm
Good Article. wfiTV.com is a nice website which offers hundreads of free internet television channels
Comment by baltarzar on May 2, 2007 4:21 am
Could you please send me a invite for joost
Comment by pagger on May 23, 2007 10:27 am
Could you please send me a invite for joost
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