Joost: Television and Online-Video Collide
Many years ago, I said the word “Google” to my wife. I said, “remember that name because it’s going to be big.” I’m having the same feeling about Joost.
I’ve been meaning to post on Joost since I read this article about the company in Wired magazine. The foudners created Kazaa and Skype, and announced Joost earlier this year. I’ve always believed in the power of “serial entrepreneurs,” and these guys are well connected and financed. They’re now up to 150 people and in 5 countres.
The idea is somewhat ground breaking… very much in the spirit of WillVideoforFood’s number one prediction for 2007.
Here’s a teaser from the Wired piece.
- Janus Friis, 30, is half of the most feared digital tag team since Google’s Sergey Brin and Larry Page marched across the Net…. Niklas Zennström, an amiable 40-year-old Swede, wears the suit.
- Together, the pair has spent the past six years bit-bombing the Net’s biggest and most vulnerable targets. Kazaa, their free file-sharing network, mushroomed amid the wreckage of the original Napster; it was managing 3 million downloads a month in 2001 when entertainment industry lawyers moved in.
- Next they built Skype, the free voice-over-IP telephone system, and sold it to eBay just over a year ago for $2.6 billion. That figure alone guarantees that their calls get returned.
You can check out Joost at its website, or visit the Joost blog.
Give it a test ride and comment if you’d like. And if you talk to Friis or Zennstrom, let them know that Nalts will pimp for equity.
Kevin – When you click on the JOOST logo on the page it takes you to an error page.
Nalts you got to go, find Zennstrom, interview him, then throw money at him and tell him to invest it for you.
http://nalts.wordpress.com/2007/01/23/video-on-the-net-conference-march-in-san-jose/#comments
I signed up for the beta but I’m only on the waiting list. This sounds like something I would really use since I watch all of my TV and Movies these days online using different sites unless it’s The Office. That is the one show I make sure I watch on my TV every week. Gotta keep them ratings up. 🙂
If I get into the beta I’ll post how my experience is with it. Thanks for the link Nalts.
I signed upto the beta… I’ve heard the name ‘joost’ before…
I signed up for the beta, too, but haven’t heard back from them, yet.
Liars all of you. You never heard of Joost until me.
Holy. Hell. And I guess this will make Slingbox pretty obselete …
this is why I keep coming back ;p
No, I’ve never heard of this company, but I’ve heard another product with the name ‘Joost’…
You have all the credit for showing us this site 😀 lol
Joost has to be a candy in the UK. Or a caffeine drink.
There is ‘juce’ but not joose… Don’t you have a thing called ‘Juce’?
You get all the credit, Kevin. I only signed up for the beta, yesterday, after reading about it here.
I love the idea of Joost. I can’t wait to try it. If you have any invites can you please send one my way.
I’ve been joosted!
Me too! I took for a test drive and here’s the report card on my blog Webs@Work:
http://blogswork.wordpress.com/tag/joost/
never had it before