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Joost will let you relive the '90s with "Friends"
BoomTown's Kara Swisher paused in making ribald jokes about Joost's London office to report that the online-video purveyor will be offering six full seasons of NBC's former hit Friends. With this, Joost will reach an audience who prefers New York City when there's no black people, just like in dated sitcoms and Woody Allen movies. But I digress. NBC-backed Hulu only offers snippets of Friends episodes. Joost isn't exactly going to take off with syndicated reruns you can watch on dozens of cable channels. For those of you desperate to relive Ross and Rachel, the site will relaunch in mid-October — no plugin required.

12:00 PM on Wed Sep 24 2008
By Jackson West
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Most discussed sample032: Remind me again, was season 6 before or after the cute guy became a prescription drug addict and got fat? more »
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Joost finally abandons desktop app
Online-video startup Joost — whose name we think is Estonian for "trouble" — will cease development of its little-used desktop application and focus exclusively on a long-expected Web-browser plugin. None of which solves Joost's biggest problem: a lack of compelling content. Considering how difficult it was for NBC to convince many to download Microsoft's Silverlight browser plugin for online coverage of the Olympics, it's unlikely that users will flock to download something from an even more obscure company, especially when Adobe is building features similar to Joost's into Flash. More »

2:40 PM on Fri Sep 5 2008
By Jackson West
1,516 views, 5 comments

Latest by debbydeb: I might be throwing a curve ball here, but what would happen to his stuff if he used that chrome? more »
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Niklas Zennström's vikings raid Irish Sea yacht race
At Skandia Cowes Week on the Isle of Wight, Niklas Zennström's racing yacht Ran won five of seven races amongst the largest class of boats, and won the overall title without having to race on the final day. Zennström joined the competitive yachting class after successfully suckering eBay into buying Skype. His latest project, Joost, however, couldn't generate enough hype to raise the spinnaker, with the online video startup's sails continuing to ~~luft~~ luff in dead winds. (Photo by Rick Tomlinson)

5:40 PM on Thu Aug 14 2008
By Jackson West
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Latest by Matthew_Maurice: @BarneyRubble: And the boat's name should be in italics, Ran. more »
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Joost worries about a story Valleywag wasn't planning to write
Haven't heard much about Joost lately? That's because the online-video startup, founded by the same obstreperous Europeans behind Kazaa and Skype, seems to be going exactly nowhere. It is the opposite of newsworthy, with its software-based approach to video distribution having been completely undone by YouTube and Adobe's Flash technology. Adobe is adding peer-to-peer distribution, Joost's main distinction, and even investors like Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman have taken to dissing it. Could there be worse news? We can't imagine it. But Joost's flack can. More »

3:20 PM on Fri May 30 2008
By Owen Thomas
1,585 views, 3 comments

Latest by s1n1ster: Let me guess, a story about a company that raised a shit load of money on an idea that apparently more »
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Viacom CEO: Some platforms work, some are like Joost
Viacom helped Joost with its original funding. But the video platform's co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis probably shouldn't expect any more cash from Sumner Redstone's empire. Not after the way Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman took a dainty dump on the service yesterday:
We come at Joost or other platforms from the point of view that we cannot predict—nor did we in that case or any other case—predict which ones are going to be hugely successful, moderately successful, which won't work.
Asked if Viacom will invest again, Dauman demurred: "We did receive equity in connection with our original deal and we're happy where we are." (Photo by AP/Rajesh Nirgude)

8:40 AM on Fri May 23 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
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Joost's last, best hope nixed by Adobe
The latest iteration of Joost, the once-hot, now decidedly not video startup from the people who brought you Skype, will work in your browser — but only if you download a plugin from Joost. And while Joost struggles to find good content, Adobe is rolling file sharing into its Flash player, beating Joost's new plugin to the punch. NBC has worked with file-sharing content delivery platforms in the past, and Hulu — a site backed with quality content — uses Flash. I'm sure the Joost developers are tech whizzes, but even our journalist math puts them on the wrong side of this equation. (Photo by Job D.)

4:20 PM on Thu May 22 2008
By Jackson West
2,071 views, 10 comments

Latest by reality.check: goes to show, no one wants to download/install a standalone. everything is browser based. joost never got it. may be more »

Joost hires creative directors away from Dailymotion Joost, the once wired, now tired Internet-TV revolutionary, has hired away Danny Passman and John Schultz from Dailymotion where they were both creative directors. Schultz will be director and Passman head of global programming strategy. While the company does need help with better content, they're also getting whipped by Hulu because of the latter's simple browser interface. [MediaWeek]

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Joost hires chief software architect, cans three marketers
Joost yesterday hired Jason Gaedtke as its new chief software architect. Joost's last top engineer, the recently departed CTO Dirk-Willem van Gulik fared poorly with his coworkers, one of whom described him as "an arrogant, condescending jerk." Gaedtke will face less peer review, if only because fewer people now work at Joost. Three marketers lost their jobs with the company yesterday as part of Joost's efforts to "streamline its operations," as NewTeeVee reports.

9:20 AM on Fri Mar 28 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
526 views, 5 comments

Latest by PhilDewey: Funny they fired the "arrogant,condescending jerk" engineer and not the arrogant,condescending jerk CEO. Now you know why Volpe exited Cisco more »
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Ex-Joost CTO "an arrogant, condescending jerk," like most CTOs we know
Joost fired its former CTO, Dirk-Willem van Gulik, when it found out he was looking for a new job. Or he quit. Hard to tell. But according to a new tipster, one thing is clear: Many at Joost were glad to see him depart for a new job at the BBC. More »

4:40 PM on Thu Feb 21 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
2,757 views, 12 comments

Latest by tacurran: Die Schadenfreude . It seems that the insidious organ rejection process at BBC began before the HR department could dry more »
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Fired Joost CTO already had new gig lined up
Joost fired its CTO, Dirk-Willem van Gulik, a company flack told NewTeeVee. For a replacement, the Web TV service named Comcast's Matt Zelesko to be the company's senior vice president of engineering. Here's the weird part, though: van Gulik already has a new job. More »

2:41 PM on Thu Jan 17 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
2,385 views, 10 comments

Latest by anonym00se: I can't claim to know for sure why he was fired, but having had dealings with van Gulik in the more »

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