Joost takes on Cable TV
Joost seems to be the next buzzword going around the web. The 'Venice Project' started by the developers of Kazaa and Skype are going to battle, heads on with the Cable TV. With the astounding success of Skype which just reached its 500 millionth download, Joost seems very promising to change the way the television network works. Joost [pronounced yohst] uses the java implementation of the Streaming Transformation of XML (STX) technology, which does not transform the XML documents to a tree structure as XSLT which consumes memory. This seems like a faster approach and is optimal for a resource constraint system and hence the near TV quality pictures. More resources on STX is available at stx.sourcefourge.net
There has been good reviews going around for people who had the invites and Joost seems picky about giving the invites, dunno why?. There is even a site called www.joostswap.com that helps people get invites from who have already got one and trade joost related items!!!
Check out this video on a first hand demo on what this product is like, from David Clark, the Executive Vice President of Joost
5 comments:
Good Overview. When is joost coming out
would be nice to have an internet component
Hey, if you need an invitation, why not head over to www.joostswap.com and offer something for one? If you have invites, see what you can get, or ask for something you want.
hi Shaun,
Yes i'm going to do that. As a first step, Do u have an invite and what would you want to get to trade one.
Hey Palaniappan,
Thanks for the response. I don't have an invite as of now. But when I do get them, I'll be asking for some interesting things over at joostswap.com. Keep checking.
BTW, are you a blogger? If so, check out our calling all blogger post. Thanks.
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