With $45 million in the bank, Joost seems all set to become a major player in the world of re-broadcasting produced content from the creative factories of large media companies. But before it does that, the company needs to overcome some technological challenges that could seriously degrade the company’s service.
At the time of Joost’s limited beta launch, the service melted down and became unavailable for many users. Despite server fixes, as recently as yesterday, tipsters were writing in to tell us the service was down again. And the underlying technologies at Joost to enable the product’s peer-to-peer streaming may make this a regular occurrence.
5 comments so far
10:50 AM PT
I’m not sure a questionable infrastructure is what will trouble Joost, as much as who wants to watch recycled shows from old media companies.
7:32 PM PT
At a lousy resolution. Hi Def is becoming standard and Joost is 5 steps back.
But it’s geeky cool to see TV on your computer!
2:46 AM PT
Joost will suffer because it will not be able to take advantage of the long tail effect. 1,000 medium quality shows is no competition for YouTubes 5,000,000 videos as far as driving traffic and the viral effect of having your friends view your videos.
3:22 AM PT
I can tell you. The interest in Joost is incredible. People have mailed my inbox full just because I commented to have an invitation (of course before anyone was able to invite)
8:32 PM PT
I think all technical issues will be easily managed by Joost team.
In addition to CDN, they can use Multiplexing for the most wanted content or other cheap delivery methods.
And they can increase the “cache time” by displaying longer ads….
And they will probably sell a Wifi “Joost Box” connected to your TV (and uploading all the time).