Mushon, you wanted to me figure out where Joost stands in the relm of online television. Here’s what i discovered:
Initially, Joost seems like a reject child from facebook and youtube. It offers way less video content than youtube, and the social networking aspect of the website is a poor imitation of mark zuckerberg’s brainchild.
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So I finally decided to branch out of my 90210 phase and see what else joost has to offer me. Here’s what I found:
My Roommate got laid off due to the economic recession.
Joost just relaunched to compete with big companies like Hulu. How will this company be able to compete with already well known sites? There are also other facits of the online video community to consider: websites like surf the channel (free television/films streamlined from foreign countries) and even film/tv pirating sites. Also would somthing like netflix be affected by this up and coming online community?
I love TV. Call me old fashioned, but despite all of the new media forms that have come into existence, I still choose to spend most of my free time watching anything and everything cable television has to offer.
Joost came into my life about a month ago when the newborn company hired my roommate as an intern for the year. As of now, this is an application you can download onto your computer (although my inside source has revealed to me that the company plans to relaunch sometime this fall and will no longer be in a form you have to download) that is kind of like selective netflix of television shows. They offer up full episodes from series like “Square Pegs” and “Ren and Stimpy” that you can watch with lmited (and brief) commercial interruption.
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