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Joost.com
Joost offers TV anywhere, anytime. It is a new startup run by the same folks that created Skype. Find news about the company, share your opinion about the service and comment on the potential impact Joost will have on the media industry.
Immediately after the end credits completed, I tweeted: "Catfish is mind-blowing. Seriously one of the most odd, funny, weird, terrifying, sad, unique films I've ever seen. Honestly speechless." I still kind of am. Good thing all of this is in writing. Catfish is a documentary from directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman about Ariel's brother, Nev, a New York-based photographer who becomes pen pals with an eight-year-old girl from Michigan...
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Santa Monica-based Adconion Media Group, an online advertising network, announced today that it has acquired certain assets of Joost, the online video site founded by Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Adconion Media said it would continue to operate Joost.com, and use it to bring additional "scale" and content to its network. Adconion offers pre-roll ad placement for its clients...
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From socaltech.com
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Adconion, an online advertising company, has acquired most of Joost, bringing to an unhappy end the online video venture backed by the founders of Skype.
Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, who founded Joost in 2006, raised $45m from investors including Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures and Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong tycoon, before launching the service to [...]
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From blogs.ft.com
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Skype and Joost are interesting companies to compare – they are about as close as you can get to one of those sociological studies that track identical twins who are raised separately. Skype was a spectacular success. Joost never got traction and was shut down. Both were started by Nicklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, two of the great technology visionaries of our time. Both were big ideas, trying to disrupt giant, slow-moving incumbents...
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- Why did Skype succeed and Joost fail? (del.icio.us)
Many movies over last ten years have engaged with the dangers of online communication, but Arial Schulman and Henry Joost’s “Catfish” delivers the definitive narrative of social networking gone awry to cap off the decade. By turns hilarious, unsettling and sad, the documentary engages with the rampant instability of new media. The filmmakers focus on Schulman’s brother, Nev, a 24-year-old New York photographer whose relationship with an eight...
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From indiewire.com
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Founded by Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom of Skype and Kazaa fame, broadband video service Joost hoped to revolutionize the broadband video industry, but struggled with slow broadband speeds, internal turmoil and a contractually-limited catalog. Last winter, Joost ditched their P2P approach for a more Hulu-esque flash-based website approach, though it didn't help. The company has since shuttered their consumer service entirely -- hoping to...
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From dslreports.com
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PC World - Way outdone by rivals like Hulu and YouTube, Web video service Joost is now in the throes of winding down, only two-and-a-half years after its rollout with very high hopes by Skype co-founders Janius Friis and Niklas Zennstrom.
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From rss.news.yahoo.com
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Adconion Media Group announced this morning that it has acquired certain key assets from Joost, the ill-fated online video service started by the infamous Kazaa and Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but it's likely a firesale that isn't bringing any returns to Joost's investors.
Last June, Joost announced a change in its business strategy to focus on providing white-label video...
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Born in Cologne: Changed panorama widths.. no need to make them scrollable - they were unnecessarily large in the article
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Joost Assets Snapped Up by AdconionDigitaltrends.comA couple years ago, Joost was the darling of a nascent online video industry, featuring peer-to-peer technology from Skye and Kazaa founders Niklas ...digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — Adconion Jumps On JoostSatNews PublishersJoost Assets Acquired By AdconionInformationWeekNews Round-UpInteractiveTV Today [itvt]EContent (press release)all 5 news articles »
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