Joost is a lame name and I’m an official beta tester…
February 7th, 2007 by Casey
Wow I get to display this banner on my blog to show how cool I am to the rest of the world. I can do it and you cant sort of mentality. I think its a good link building technique but other than that its lame. I would assume this would appeal to the teenage and myspace crowd that always wants to one up each other.
I looked at this over a month ago and haven’t been back. It was very buggy at the time and I didn’t see why I should devote any time to it. Hopefully this thing will be cool but on this project I actually have my doubts. Both Kazaa and Skype were great from the start, I think I was a beta tester for skype as well but that was too long ago now.
If anyone wants to use my beta test account I will pass it along. I will just change my password for you and you can poke around in it. I have lost interest.
**An update from Joost as of Feb 17**
Today we have good news, and we have great news. In addition to the 0.8
release which includes new CoreAVC Video decoder, which significantly improves
the quality of the video, we also have an Intel Mac beta version.
In checking out the improved video quality, we also hope you’ll notice
that we’ve added quite a lot of content and quite a few channels. These
include:
* Documentaries from National Geographic;
* Loud noise and fast cars from the Indy Racing League;
* Healthy living programming from Lime;
* A variety of reality series in the Lazy TV channel from Endemol;
* Cartoons like Rocky and Bullwinkle in Saturday Morning TV (Classic
Media);
* A lineup of independent film makers from IndieFlix;
* More reality TV with the Bridezillas series from September Films;
* Video gaming tricks and reviews form Gamestar;
* Comical, irreverent and edgy programming from Bite TV
* And cool new Bollywood music videos from Savvn.
The number one question that we’ve received throughout our beta period
has been about when we’re going to make a Mac version available. We’re happy
that we can finally say, that day has arrived! The Mac version looks a lot like the
Windows version but behaves like a Mac application. Note this beta is still
Intel only.
As always - please send us your thoughts and questions.
Enjoy!
I’m surprised you lost interest, seems like a bad sign…
But I would like to give it a try!
You will need to use my email address but I can create a password for you that way you can still login and check it out. I don’t think that they would care. They have some sort of a token system now so you can probably earn some and refer people that way too.
I really didn’t give it a fair shot and don’t have the time or interest to look into it again.
[...] We decided to apply for beta testing to see what this meant for the future of our project. After a while, we got tired of waiting for our beta account. With the help of some Web 2.0 tools, we ran into Casey who offered his account to anyone who had interest. Thanks Casey. [...]
Hey…i came across your website, because I’m really interested in trying out joost. Any chance you can send me an invite? Thanks…JC
Hi any chance You have invites? Or an acount I can use I have been waiting forever thanks so much Great Blog
Hey does anyone have any invite tokens to joost they can spare?
If there are any more Joost tokens out there I too would definitely appreciate one. You can pass it to me at swaggatv@gmail.com
Thanks
i also want a beta tester invitation
m.tiryaki@gmail.com if you give me a chance i will thank you 4 all my life.