Joost (formally known as The Venice Project) – Peer to Peer TV Distribution from the founders of Skype and Kazaa

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Mysterious Vdio Confirmed, But Is It Serious Competition For Netflix Or Just Another Joost?

Netflix appears to have a new competitor waiting in the wings ready to strike while the U.S. DVD and streaming giant...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

SeeSaw Launches As Free U.K.-Based Hulu | Pay-Per-View, Subscription Options On Way

SeeSaw has now arrived, having left its short beta and launched fully for anyone resident in the U.K. to use. More...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Joost Dead As It Sells Out To Adconion | So, Where Did The Venice Project Go Wrong?

The most recent article about Joost here on WebTVWire stated that the company was “heading ever closer to death.” And that...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Joost Edges Closer To Death | Becoming White Label Video Provider Amid Multiple Changes

Joost seems to heading ever closer to death. It’s refocusing on becoming a white label video provider, is letting go of...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Joost Up For Sale As An Online Video Solution?

Joost, once the darling of the burgeoning online video market, could be about to evolve into something altogether less exciting. There...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Watch Television On Your iPhone With New TV.com iPhone App | Will Hulu Follow Suit?

It’s looking as though mobile television is going to grow exponentially over the next few years, with faster and more numerous...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Web TV Wire 2008 Review | A Year In Online Video

2008 has now seamlessly morphed into 2009 and we’re all a year older, and maybe even a year wiser. But what...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Sling.com Goes Public To Compete With Hulu, Joost | But Again, It’s Only For U.S. Citizens

Sling.com, the online video portal from the makers of the Slingbox, is now open to the public, putting it in direct...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Joost Becomes Web Flash Site, Drops Plug-In Altogether | Can It Compete With Hulu?

The new Joost is now live, and offers users the chance to watch content in their Web browser using Flash. But...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Hulu Copies Joost By Adding Social Networking Features, Genre Searching, Recommendations

While Joost may have been first to launch, Hulu is the television service that has taken off while Joost has been...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Joost Mark II Launches | Joost Offering Browser-Based Video And Social Network

Joost Mark II has arrived. But will the additions of a browser based video viewer and social networking features help the...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

The End Of Joost Desktop Client | Will A Web Browser Help Joost Compete With Hulu?

Joost is killing off its desktop client and moving lock, stock, and barrel over to a Web-based system of content delivery....
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Joost Not Dead Yet | Web TV Service Makes High Profile Hires, New Content Available

2008 has so far proved to be a very mixed year for Web TV service Joost, but 5 months in and...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Revision3 Does Deals With Hulu, Joost, TiVo

Revision3, the online video company headed by Digg’s Kevin Rose has reportedly inked a series of new deals which will see...
Dave Parrack
39 sec read

Joost To Undergo Major Company Restructuring | Web TV Company Scaling Back Global Plans

Joost was at one point cited as the next big thing, the future of Web television, the application that will take...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Blinkx Launch BBTV | Could The Speech Track Innovation Make This A Joost, Hulu Killer?

You may think the world already has enough Web TV applications to be going on with. But the likes of Joost,...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

A Web-Based Version Of Joost On The Way | Can Joost Be Saved By Copying YouTube?

The last time we spoke about Joost here on Web TV Wire, it was to talk about its possible demise. Many...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Watching Web TV While At Work | Businesses Cracking Down On Employees Surfing YouTube

The growing popularity of Internet television isn’t good news for everyone, as businesses are finding to their cost, with falling productivity...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

How To Connect A Projector To Your PC Or Laptop To Watch High Definition Online Video

Internet television is growing at a phenomenal rate, with services such as Joost, Hulu and Stage6 all providing more reasons than...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Will Joost Last The Year? | Doesn’t Live Up To The Hype & Can’t Compete With Hulu Etc

Joost was due to be the next big thing, and created such a buzz in its infancy, was talked about positively...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Joost Moves From Private Beta To Public Launch | The IPTV Service Still Needs Help

Joost has now officially launched to the public, moving from a Beta testing stage to one which makes the IPTV service...
Michael Garrett
2 min read

OnTheToob | Joost Snaps Up Independent Development Talent

Joost has just acquired Hal Schechner’s OnTheToob. On the back of the wave of independent developers contributing helpful features to Joost,...
Fraser MacInnes
22 sec read

Does Joost Need A Bandwidth Boost? | Bit Rate Worse Than Both DivX and iTunes

Joost users have expressed concerns over the video quality and bandwidth requirements of the free P2P online television application. To investigate...
Michael Garrett
1 min read

Joost IPTV Beta Reaches 1m Users | Full Launch Planned For Later On This Year

Niklas Zennström, the co-founder of Skype and Kazaa, claimed today that Joost, the IPTV start-up hatched by himself and Janus Friis,...
Chris Tew
1 min read

BBTV From Blinkx | Internet TV To Rival Joost

Joost may be the biggest and best known service for providing video on demand, but the amount of challengers to its...
Dave Parrack
55 sec read

Joost Advertisers Want Copyright Assurances

Joost has reached advertising agreements with over 36 companies, with many insisting that they will only have advertisements placed next to...
Kevin Groppe
31 sec read

BabelGum | Internet TV Start-Up to Contend With Joost

When YouTube started blazing onto everyone’s PCs bringing a new world of amateur content and entertaining clips we began to see...
Michael Pick
6 min read

Joost on Set Top Boxes? – SlingBox? Apple TV? AT&T Homezone? TiVo? Who?

Looking at the Joost interface it will be obvious to many that this is something that you could imagine on your...
Chris Tew
3 min read

New Joost CEO | Mike Volpi from Cisco

We’d seen solid rumors that Mike Volpi was going to be the new CEO of Joost to replace the founding CEO,...
Chris Tew
2 min read

Joost bags $45 million dollars in financing

Joost, the new internet TV platform from the makers of Skype and Kazaa, has secured a whopping $45 million dollars in...
Chris Tew
5 min read