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Joost Continues Fight For Relevancy, Teams Up With Social Network Netlog

Don’t count out Joost just yet. We recently wrote it still has a heartbeat despite the fact they made the wrong bet years ago by underestimating the power of the web for watching videos. They finally switched to Flash late last year, giving up on P2P, and introduced some social networking features around the video [...]

Nick | Mar 06, 2009 | Comments 0
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Joost Just Gives Up On P2P Altogether

Joost’s two year old online video service was a pretty darned smart idea when it first launched.
Instead of streaming video through the Joost website, users would download a Mozilla-based client and watch it there instead. The user experience could be more tightly controlled. And more importantly, the Joost client had built in person-to-person file sharing. [...]

Nick | Dec 18, 2008 | Comments 0
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Joost iPhone App makes us remember Joost again

Joost launched their iPhone application on the App Store this evening, giving users access to 46,000 Joost videos, including major television shows and films. The iPhone has a built in YouTube application already, giving them a serious head start when it comes to video on the iPhone. But archrival Hulu doesn’t yet – giving Joost [...]

Nick | Nov 30, 2008 | Comments 0
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Hulu Launches All Kinds Of Stuff To Keep You Defocused On Joost

There’s no way Hulu is going to let Joost get a foothold in the race for attention in online professionally produced video.
So what happens when Joost ditches the download, goes all browser and launches a social network around their content?

Nick | Sep 23, 2008 | Comments 0
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