Since 2 days, everyone can get an account for Joost without a special invitation.  The company finds the product good enough to use by more people than the miljoen people that had a special invitation.

The program is still in beta because there are still a few bugs in it, and tehrefor the official release date isn't confirmed for the moment.

Today I received an email from Rich McIver with a link The their "Ultimate User's Guide To Joost".  So check it out.  There's a lot of info on it.

This is the link : http://www.dailyiptv.com/features/joost-guide-shows-features-invitation-062107/.

(Txs to JoostTeam)

If you follow the JoostTeam site, you already know this news.  But here a few newsitems on Joost.

• Joost has added hundreds of new channels since may 14th. (Even the first adult channel). Read more.
• Latest download (version 0.10.2) is pulled from their site.  Read more.

If you want to know when new cchannels are added, you can use Hal Schechner “new content” RSS feed at http://hal.schechner.com/joost/feeds/content_new.xml.

BTW : If you want an invitation.  I still have invitations left.  So go to this article and leave a comment with your information.

Txs to Dan Brickley I have thius info about some issues I mentioned in my review.

1. About the invitation that was lost.  Find here an article with a solution : http://www.joostteam.com/2007/05/12/how-to-get-joost-working-when-your-invite-went-in-the-spam-bucket/.  But as Dan told me, Always download the latest version of Joost directly on the Joost site and not from another site where it is possible that you download an old version.
2. About using multiple accounts : Dan hopes Joost will solve this in the future, so you can easily switch between accounts.
3. About the resending of an invitation : The people of Joost will look at it.

I'm very pleased that they reading blogs and reviews on the web, and take care of what people are saying. 

I'm playing more and more with Joost.  So if I found something interresting, I will let you know.

A good site with info arround Joost and a forum is JoostTeam.

(Article updated on 16/05/2007).

After using Joost for about 14 days. It’s time to write down a bit about my experience. They still have troubles with the heavy load. Sometimes we got connection problems. Also the rating doesn’t work every time. The content is still not much. OK, you have a lot of music clips, documentary’s, etc. But no real life streaming of programs. All of them are short clips (some more than 30 minutes). The quality is good but not very good. In full screen you still see that they use a lower resolution.

 

At this moment I have a few Joost invitations.  So those who want an invitation, leave a comment.

I need following info :

• Firstname
• Lastname
• E-mail

Update : After 1 hour already send 8 invitations (everyone who had leaves a comment or had sent me an e-mail should have received an invitation).  Still some left .

Update 2 : It seems that everyone is looking for an invitation.  After almost 12 hours I have received 11 comments and 5 e-mails for an invitation (All 16 should have received their invitation). And still you can have one.  So don't hestitate to leave a comment with your info and I will send you an invitation.

Thanks to my current project leader, I'm now a Joost beta tester. 

What is Joost ?

Joost is a new way of watching TV on the internet. With Joost, you get all the things you love about TV, including a high-quality full-screen picture, hundreds of full-length shows and easy channel-flipping.

With Joost you have hundreds of full-screen shows from your favourite channels., Complete control over what you are viewing and a lot of extra features.

You can also look at this intro movie.

Here you can see several screenshots. https://www.joost.com/screenshots/

BTW : As soon as I have invitations, I will let you know.  At this moment I have 0 invitations.

Update : Joost faces problems providing video on demand. "The broadband video service Joost has been struggling to keep up with demand after extending its pre-launch testing by allowing trial users to send unlimited invitations to others".  More info here : http://informitv.com/articles/2007/05/04/joostfacesproblems/ .  So I hope I have soon some invitations.