Joost was a USA website.
Joost was an internet TV service based on P2P (peer-to-peer) TV technology, which allows individuals to distribute video streams to others using the same application. It was an online venue for watching videos in 'near-TV quality' including music, TV shows and movies. The website was searchable by title or category, or by suggestions from other people.
Joost began development in 2006 and was created by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, the founders of Skype and Kazaa.
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Joost Website Changes Mission, Will Become 'Online Video Platform'
-- On June 30, 2009, Joost CEO Mike Volpi announced at the Joost Blog that the website is changing its mission:
"Today we've decided to make some changes at Joost. In these tough economic times, it's been increasingly challenging to operate as an independent, ad-supported online video platform. In order to position ourselves well for the future, we began investigating additional lines of revenue for...
P2P TV Technology at Work at Joost
-- Joost is based on P2P TV technology, P2P stands for peer-to-peer. It is expected to offer near-TV resolution images, turning a PC into an instant on-demand TV. P2P TV technology differs in the sense that the servers serve only a handful of clients, each of the clients in turn propagate the stream to more downstream clients and so on. This moves the distribution costs from the...
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-- December 16, 2008: Joost today announced it has added nine independent music labels and aggregators to its growing content library. There are now more than 18,000 music assets - including music videos, interviews and live performances - available in the Music section of Joost.com.
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