Joost is an Internet TV service, started by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis who also happens to be the founders of Skype and Kazaa. During 2007-8
Joost used peer-to-peer or P2P TV technology to distribute content to their Mozilla-based desktop player; in late 2008 this was migrated to use a Flash-based Web player instead.
Joost began development in 2006. Working under the code name "The Venice Project", Zennström and Friis assembled teams of some 150 software developers in about six cities around the world, including New York, London, Leiden and Toulouse. According to Zennström at a 25 July 2007 press conference about Skype held in Tallinn, Estonia,
Joost had signed up more than a million beta testers, and its launch was scheduled for the end of 2007.
Very recently
Joost was in the news when they were thinkin about discontinuing support for their desktop client and would completely focus on their new site, which they duely informed its users via email. This is certainly a big step for a company that once aimed to revolutionize online video with P2P technology, and whose founders previously succeeded with P2P apps like Kazaa and Skype. But it’s way too early to declare the death of P2P video streaming, as some seem eager to do in light of
Joost shifting course.
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