I’ve been joost(ed)

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Twitter informed me that a friend got his Joost invite whilst I was in the library. I was looking for some books that had been recommended to me by someone I had interviewed for my dissertation so I did not pay much attention to this at the time.

When I got home I saw that I too had not escaped the invite. Great, time to download and try it out, I thought, I was wrong.  I installed it and went to run it, twittered that I had launched it for the first time, wrong, wrong processor- All that anticipation indifference I was left indifferent. Why create a product that a lot of users can’t use?

Joost came into being too late and too narrow. Why would people want a full-screen application for the live streaming of video content when bandwidth in some of the luckier nations, Sweden and Japan, for example, offer 100 Megabits per second. I love downloading podcasts that I can watch anytime, anywhere, anyplace, and on any device. I love the high mobility aspect of new technology. I love that I can check my e-mail from my mobile phone, chat with a community via text and that I can visit Facebook and see what events are on today without ever touching a computer.

That’s what technology is about for me. Same for all those at Jaiku, Nokia, Justin TV, and others to name a few. People are tired of laptops and desktops, they want portable web-enabled devices. I do too.


Comments

5 responses to “I’ve been joost(ed)”

  1. pyrhana avatar
    pyrhana

    Hey I would love an invite if you have an extra one. I have been hearing a lot about joost and it seems that either people love it or hate it and I would love to see for myself.
    thanks
    pltaylor3 at gmail.com

  2. You know, I would offer you an invite but unless I can launch joost I can’t log into the website unfortunatly.

  3. wischi avatar
    wischi

    Couldn’t you give me your joost login data ?

    wischi

  4. hansdam avatar
    hansdam

    Hello, would like to receive a Joost invite, thanks in advance!!!

  5. Think it’s according to IP therefore it can only be used once. If I download the joost software both for PC and mac maybe I can login and offer some invites. Problem is I won’t get to a pc for a few more weeks.

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