Joost pulling in users despite scalability problems

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Joost BetaJoost recently announced unlimited invites to download and beta test the Joost software. It was then inundated with new users which saw Joost struggling under the extra load from these users.

However, Joost is not being discouraged and is actively encouraging more users. It already made it extremely easy to get an invite and now I just received this email encouraging me to invite more people to Joost:

Hello Chris,

We hope you’re enjoying your Joost experience.

We’d like to share some good news and celebrate the launch of the new Joost beta – Now For Friends. This means you can now invite as many friends as you want to try out Joost.
To access your invites, log onto Joost, go to My Joost and fill in your friends’ details in the Invite Friends widget box.

If you’re running out of friends, you can make new ones by letting people know you’ve got invites. To help with this, we’ve made a few goodies especially for you, which you can find at http://www.joost.com/share/goodies.html.

Last but not least, we invite you to enjoy the variety of new shows we’re introducing each week. This week we bring you a host of new channels from Universal Music, great science fiction like Earth Final Conflict, and Creature Comforts from Aardman Animations.

We’ve also got swimsuit models and snowboarders, anime and animals, and much more. But that’s just the beginning. Each week we’ll launch new channels – making sure you can watch what you want, when you want. So stay tuned…

If you’ve got any questions, feel free to check out our forum http://www.joost.com/forums, and don’t forget to send us feedback on what you like and things we could improve.

Enjoy, and see you on Joost!

The Joost Team

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