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Another one bites the dust
02 years ago
Not all Web 2.0 services make it. And not everything Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, founders of Skype, touch turns to gold. They are, according to IDG.se, pulling the plug on Joost. There are not many video solutions that have really succeeded in this area, Youtube and Vimeo, are not direct competitors. And Hulu is only available in U.S, iPlayer from BBC only in U.K, other services are also not available worldwide. But I can see that the amount of national services made it difficult for Joost.
Their service was cool, but lacked serious content. I often felt that I was running a demo of what the application was capable of doing. The video streams had and have a high quality, often better then their competitors. I didn’t mind running it as a standalone application, nor directly from a browser. I just wanted content…
Aardman Production on Joost!
14 years ago
I was quite fast on signing up on Joost. The project was called “The Venice Project” in it’s early days, and it is another project from the guys behind Skype. In the beginning the service was lacking intersting content, but as this is now changing I am using it more and more. Today I discovered that there was even a Aardman Production channel, the studio behind the successes Creature Comfort and Wallace & Gromit.
I find Joost far more interesting then videocast services like the Democracy player, and I have by now more or less stopped using the Democracy player. The technology behind Joost is impressive, it is in short P2P (peer-to-peer) done right! The perfect platform for pushing HDTV content. The application downloads approximately 320Mb of data an hour and uploads about 105MB an hour. A broadband connection is therefor required. Joost is not pulling all of the video from a central server, instead it speeds up the download process by allowing videos to be pulled form other Joost locations that are closer to you. This makes the quality of the Joost broadcast service so impressive. I love watching it on my Mac, but it isn’t enough. I want to stream it to my TV as well. I heard something about that being possible with Apple TV, but what about the XBOX360? Appearently it is possible with the Media Center included in some of the versions of Vista. I hope it in the future also will be possible with a Mac, for instance through Connect360.
Another impressive thing is that Joost is very much based on open source technology. The application is based on Mozilla’s XULRunner engine, which basically means it’s cross-platform. Joost also has a inbuilt Instant Messenger service, and that is using the Jabber protocol (and not Skype)! The application is currently only available for Windows (also Vista) and MacOS X, but a Linux player will be made available later. If you are using Linux, and can’t wait for the client to arrive, people have been able to get Joost with Wine on Ubuntu. Their servers are running Ubuntu with Apache.
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