That is my jam!

Joost.

So Joost is the hottest new thing out there in terms of web TV. The other day I saw the report that MTV Networks is planning to create thousands of websites to showcase their content and let viewers repurpose it. And they're using this platform Joost to help develop this idea. I took a look at the Joost website and realized I had been a member of their mailing list since they were known as the Venice Project. And it turns out I got an email describing the partnership a few weeks ago:

Great news from the Joost Content Team. Today we're announcing a major partnership with Viacom. Which will bring programming and lots of channels from Viacom's key brands and properties available on Joost on our imminent launch.

MTV will offer popular shows, both past and present, including Laguna Beach, Beavis & Butthead, Real World, Punk'd and My Super Sweet Sixteen, while COMEDY CENTRAL will feature episodes from Stella, CCP's and Freak Show. Nickelodeon, CMT: Country Music Television, MTV2, Logo, Spike TV, mtvU, and Gametrailers.com will also provide content. VH1's offerings will include episodes of Flavor of Love, Surreal Life, and I Love New York. BET's Networks' offerings will include some of its biggest shows, including Beef, DMX: Soul of a Man, Comic View and recent smash hit American Gangster. Also, Paramount Pictures, Paramount Vantage and Paramount Classics will be providing full-length feature films from its catalog of classics and recent releases.

This content isn't available yet. We're working hard on shipping, transcoding and feeding the P2P network (and no, despite malicious gossip to the contrary - engineering is not giving Star Trek or Ren&Stimpy top priority) it will all be there for our launch.

So on the website are a couple of screenshots of the beta.







So, I don't see any tagging, but it still would be very relevant and awesome to take a look at.

I didn't really anticipate this, but apparently Joost's invite-only method of distributing their beta, combined with its buzz, has caused it to be a hot commodity. Brent Roos' Window to the Universe describes it and is offering a coveted invite. His post was written a while ago, but you never know if he still has some invites left. :)

He also has a post about TweakVista which I'm sure will come in handy if/when I download my free version courtesy of GT :) I guess that would involve getting a PC though.

P.S. If you're not in your last semester of grad school, congratulations on not having to work on a thesis. If you are, I feel your pain.

posted by annie @ 9:24 PM