But how can you find your way through this huge collection? Enter Joost Links. Each piece of content on Joost has an associated Web page, allowing viewers to link, blog, tag or cross-reference these pages so that the collective power of the Joost communit
If they did Skype and Kazaa, they must be smart, right? But very smart people sometimes make very big mistakes. Sometimes it is because they remain glued to their old paradigms. Below I describe some of the mistakes they have made – some in the core c
At the time of Joost’s limited beta launch, the service melted down and became unavailable for many users. Despite server fixes, as recently as yesterday, tipsters were writing in to tell us the service was down again. And the underlying technologies at
Paradoxically, one thing Zennström and Friis don’t particularly want is user-generated content. That’s partly tactical, a way to differentiate their new baby from YouTube. But they’ve also learned—the hard way—about the risks of letting the aud
After Joost makes a show available, the first users to request it (A) query the network at large (B) to see whether peers can provide the program. If they can’t, the request goes to a content server (C), which streams the show, interspersed with individ
