If there is one software that has caught my attention over the past week then it has to be the new revolutionary software called Joost. Now Joost has been co-founded by the founders of Skype, Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis and has already been financed to the amount 45million dollars from Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, CBS Corporation and Viacom. It already has legal content from the partnership with Viacom. All in all Joost seems to have had the right kind of start that any startup would dream of.
The Joost commercial said that it combines the best parts of the internet and the TV and it does deliver that experience. Joost has a very simple and easy to use interface with transparent popups and drag and drop panels. Channel surfing is very intuitive with the listing of channels and listing of each program in each channel. One can go directly to any program of his choice and play it. Each program has a very good clarity and quality seems good. Joost also has something called MyJoost which allows the user chat while watching TV, view news in the bottom of the screen as a ticker by adding RSS feeds of his choice.
Joost created a frenzy in the techcircles with demands for beta invites seeing a never before craze.With Youtube in the midst of copyright infringement lawsuits at this point in time, Joost, with all its legal content and respect for the publishers copyright concerns, has made an entry at the right point and snatched the limelight. Also according to reports more than 45million people watch TV online as of today and this number is bound to grow.
It is to be seen how Joost copes up with scaling issues in the near future as the number of users increases. Also one needs a very high speed internet connection to watch without any hiccups.
But for now, lets raise a toast to Joost for creating a revolution in Internet TV watching. So Happy Joosting to everyone.
The Joost commercial said that it combines the best parts of the internet and the TV and it does deliver that experience. Joost has a very simple and easy to use interface with transparent popups and drag and drop panels. Channel surfing is very intuitive with the listing of channels and listing of each program in each channel. One can go directly to any program of his choice and play it. Each program has a very good clarity and quality seems good. Joost also has something called MyJoost which allows the user chat while watching TV, view news in the bottom of the screen as a ticker by adding RSS feeds of his choice.
Joost created a frenzy in the techcircles with demands for beta invites seeing a never before craze.With Youtube in the midst of copyright infringement lawsuits at this point in time, Joost, with all its legal content and respect for the publishers copyright concerns, has made an entry at the right point and snatched the limelight. Also according to reports more than 45million people watch TV online as of today and this number is bound to grow.
It is to be seen how Joost copes up with scaling issues in the near future as the number of users increases. Also one needs a very high speed internet connection to watch without any hiccups.
But for now, lets raise a toast to Joost for creating a revolution in Internet TV watching. So Happy Joosting to everyone.
5 comments:
lets c if Joost will be the secret of our energy...sounds promising...but promises are are meant to be broken by another startup whose boostin up their attack against this choost of I-TV....for the time being lets raise a toast for Joost
Nice post....precise yet it gives lot of info....Joost sounds really cool.... For ppl like us who doesn't have TV ......its real treat...
Header: Deleted above post because of a typo and because the stoopid thing didnt allow me to edit later.
Anyway heres the corrected post.
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I will begin by saying that Joost is as revolutionary as was Dan Brown's "Da Vinci Code".
It isn't an original idea , well atleast the idea of p2p-iptv isnt.Just like the Da Vinci Code, its well packaged and superbly marketed.
Let me clear that I absolutely have no disdain towards either Joost or Da Vinci , I love them both, But I do have a problem of calling them revolutionary in an incorrect usage i.e. implementing iptv,etc.
Having said that, let me veer totally off this topic & say that I do not like your blog layout at all. The colors are too dark and dull for my liking & I totally dislike having to keep another tab open to view the original article.
Zooming off to another topic, I think I should start writing an article a day to improve my language and keep the left(or is it right) lobe of my brain whrring.
joost will have to wait till sensible broadband arrives in india...
with a 5% packet loss for local connectivity being a norm with top providers like sify... and prices for better quality internet still above reach for most...it looks like long time before something like joost becomes commonplace in india...
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