News: Joost is a website (still in beta) that provides “high-quality content” produced by big media (it has 150 channels already), served through a peer-to-peer network. At touts itself, Joost hopes to be “the world’s first broadcast-quality Internet television service.” This week, Joost announced $45 million in investments from 5 investors, “CBS, Global Expansion Index Ventures, Li Ka Shing Foundation, Sequoia Capital, and Viacom.” (more)
Analysis: Yes, it’s no surprise to see Viacom (which has sued YouTube) as an investor in Joost. I’ve started playing around with the beta version of Joost recently, and it has many things that look pretty slick. But it’s a totally different animal to me than YouTube. At least from what I’ve seen, Joost is basically getting your cable TV via the Internet. YouTube’s heavily driven by user-generated content. That’s why Joost is trying to distinguish itself as providing “high quality” content.
May 12, 2007 at 1:44 pm |
Hi! How can i get invite? Or get acount?
May 12, 2007 at 1:49 pm |
You need to get an invite now through someone else, who’s already on it:
http://www.joost.com/getjoost.html
After the weekend, I can see if I can try to send you an invite.
May 13, 2007 at 3:20 am |
Yeah utubeblog I totally agree with you. It is just like getting cable via the internet. But i’ll tell you I like it. It is pretty easy to use and the quality of the programming does beat that of video sharing websites.
In case any of your readers need an invite, i have invites to send out. You all can just visit my blog and read the joost article (it’ll give you the directions to get your invite).