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Jeku
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Posted: 16th Apr 2007 09:39 Edited at: 16th Apr 2007 09:41
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Has anyone tried Joost yet?

It's invite-only right now, and it's created by the same Danish pair who developed the technology behind Kazaa and Skype. It's a nice little front-end for TV channels on your computer, and you get video streamed from everyone else who's running the app, kind of like how bit torrent works. They give you 1-2 minutes of ads for every 60-90 minutes of video, so it's a lot better ratio than your standard cable TV station. Plus you can choose what you want to watch, when. They have dozens of channels (discovery, fight network, music videos, indie films, etc.) and you can pause and skip around them at your leisure.

They are not allowing just any old user to upload video, as they do NOT want a YouTube like amateur feel (thank goodness). You can find standard TV shows on it like Guinness book of Records, Bridezillas, etc...

Anyways, my friend invited me and I'm really having a good time discovering all these TV shows I've never heard of. It's nice in that I can shrink the window down and work on other things simultaneously. I have an amount of faith in this product simply because of the heavyweights behind its development, and they did a story about it in Wired magazine a few months ago.

Anyone else checked it out? It's pretty good, and only has the occasional stutter in performance!

http://www.joost.com

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Posted: 16th Apr 2007 10:01 Edited at: 16th Apr 2007 10:47
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Dude! That looks great! You'll have to invite me. If you want that is. .

That looks like a great idea. It would make owning it cheaper as you wouldn't need a heafty machine/ connection to accept thousands (or what ever number you want) of streams. That's soo cool.

Edit: Of course, you have always been my favorite mod. You know; You're Jeku.

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Hmmm. Sounds well cool. Have a similar thing with the new version of Azureus (3.0), but is extremely limited depending on where you live (anywhere outside of the US by the looks of things with this one, including the fact that people in the UK cannot view BBC stuff on it even though they are the ones paying the licence fee apparently). Annoying...

Still, Joost sounds more like it. So what you got to do to get an invite then Jeku my fave mod of all time?

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Bloody hounds, trying to steal invites, you know who Jeku is going to invite and that's me, why? Because he loves me. Just kidding, I'm sure the invites will soon spread like they did with GGE.

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Wow, that looks cool, espcially since it has channels Ive heard of as well as some I don't even recognize. Ill have to try it out when I get an invite, assuming someone, unknown at this time, is kind enough to send one my way.


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If you have any extra invites Osirus1156@gmail.com

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Ill trade you... my gmail invite (its evolved, level 10 with thunder bolt attack) and... this piece of lint, for your joost invite.

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Quote: "it's created by the same Danish pair who developed the technology behind Kazaa and Skype. "


Now people will understand that Danish is more than just a cake.

I would really like an invite as well, this sounds mighty cool, and I'd like to check it out. Then I will be able to watch all the cool telly shows that everyone else are constantly talking about.

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Posted: 16th Apr 2007 23:43 Edited at: 16th Apr 2007 23:47
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Invite me too Jeku if you can. It sounds interesting it would let me finally get ot watch something decent since youtube's too amateur and sometimes tv doesn't have anything good on. Lol i like that old man in the what is joost commercial it makes it sounds interesting.
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Sweet! I was waiting for this (but kinda forgot ).

I hope invite spoolers for joost start popping up like gmail's. Or you could just give me an invite since you're such a great mod. (heh heh)

nah. I read about how the invites work, and I doubt he will be able to give them to everyone...

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Why, how do they work?

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Kind of like gmail's, except alot less, and they usually only give them during updates...

People seem to only have 5 invites at a time, so I am assuming that they give less.

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GGE gave 2 invites and every so often they added to it. I used mine up then everybody I would have given to had one by the time I got the next lot.

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Posted: 16th May 2007 21:09
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Alright, I have a lot of invites now. Anyone who wants an invite post here, and at lunch I'll send them all out. First come first served

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Posted: 16th May 2007 21:50
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Me me!! I would like a invite


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Posted: 16th May 2007 21:55 Edited at: 16th May 2007 22:27
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Ah, go on then I'll have an invite if you've got one spare my favourite mod you.

Oh, yeah, and email is dazzag999@hotmail.com

Probably easier saying it here than clicking on mail buttons.

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Posted: 16th May 2007 22:23
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Gon on then Jeku,
rjs.powersoft@gmail.com,


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Posted: 16th May 2007 23:09 Edited at: 16th May 2007 23:11
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Sign me up if you want(purddy please)

fxgamer500@gmail.com

Ty in advance.

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Posted: 16th May 2007 23:15
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I'm interested, please spare me an invite if you could, thanks!

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Can i get 1 as well? My email is:
alexhakimi@gmail.com
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Posted: 17th May 2007 02:22 Edited at: 17th May 2007 02:23
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Pretty please?

Edit: Wow, most who want one have Gmail addresses.

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Posted: 17th May 2007 05:49
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IF possible Jeku :

lukaszdracz@rogers.com
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Quote: "Wow, most who want one have Gmail addresses"
Heh, I only used the one that has been in my profile for years (and is linked to my messenger that I use for work). Personally have a gmail, yahoo, ISP, business, and a different business email address. Last time I checked my Uni one (setup in 1991 but they apparently don't really delete email addresses and charge if you then want to access it again, bit it still receives email) still existed too. Too many email addresses....

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Please please invite me

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Posted: 17th May 2007 10:23
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Blargh, Joost has been down for quite a while so I haven't been able to login.

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Alright guys, I emailed the lot of you. Anyone else who wants one can post here.

P.S. - Make sure you check your spam folders just in case.

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Posted: 17th May 2007 22:03 Edited at: 17th May 2007 22:04
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Cheers Jeku,

Kudos,


Can we now invite or how does it work?

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Nice one Jeku. Will try it out tomorrow. I'll think beer drinking thoughts at you...

Cheers

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Thanks Jeku ! i got my invite im so excited.
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Hmm cant seem to get in
Quote: "An error has occured"

Then it says it cant log in to the joost network.
Any one else get this?
Oh and thanks jeku by the way.

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if i could could you send me one please

Its bigmommashouse@hotmail.co.uk

Thanks

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I'd like to have one too if possible, please.

cjd118118 [ at ] talktalk [ dot ] net

Thanks!

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Wow, this thread is probably a goldmine for spam email sweepers.


Since the other one was scaring you guys so much...
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Well, if they put their real email in their profile, it's no different to the spam email bots.

Can somebody else who has it do these last few invites? If not, I'll do them after work today. We're pretty busy at work and I don't want to keep going in and out of Joost at the moment

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Yeah il do them, I owe you one anyhow.Also if anyboddy has the same prob as me, no worries just make sure your date/time is correct and your set.Its a very nice system Jeku thnx for showing it to us!


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K, invites sent to big and darred, anybody else who wants one ask me or jeku, or just me if jeku is busy.

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i would like an invite if any more are available, pretty please

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Yah im sure I got more, but Jeku how do you check?
[sent you an invite peter, thank jeku]

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Thanks Jeku, I got the invite but I haven't been able to get into Joost yet because I'm installing a new router, but can't wait to try it, cheers!


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If joost lags at first, dont worry it will pass.When I first tried it, it lagged like mad, but got better.

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Yah, it runs much like BitTorrent. The more users watching the programs, the faster and smoother the video quality is. When this goes open it will be much better I reckon.

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Well ive played around with it and must say, bravo! I mean its not perfect but I can tell its gonna be big, plus with more channels and features its gonna roxars the boxars. Go joost!

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It is the coolest!! GO robot chicken. wooo!

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Thank you Jeku! I got a invite


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Hey this is unfair! Canadians dont get all the channels!

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If anyone has a spare invite, I'd really like one.

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Quote: "Hey this is unfair! Canadians dont get all the channels!"


what really? I'm canadian so i dont get all of the channels ?

Also do the channels get updated with new episodes or is it the same episode all the time ? IF it does get updated is it weekly or at random times ?
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Actually, the channels are dependent on where you are. Canadians do not get less channels per se--- just different ones than Americans. That being said, Americans (and the rest of the world) miss out on Channels that only Canadians get.

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Oh well i guess that seems fair and i read about it too how different countries have different licenses to watch certain channels or something tho i would prefer anyone from anywhere in the world would all have the same channels but i guess its all good. Joost is so amazing.
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