Joost: 1 Million Beta Testers Milestone

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Skype CEO and Joost co-creator, Niklas Zennström revealed that his peer-2-peer TV sharing application has reached one million beta testers milestone despite being as an invite-only service.

Joost was funded by Zennström and cofounder Janus Friis using the money they received for selling Skype to eBay in 2006.

Anybody left out can request an invite here.

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This post was published by on July 25, 2007

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  • http://www.nirmaltv.com Nirmal

    Initially I had used Joost, but then it was consuming too much memory for me, so I had to uninstall it.

  • http://www.sizzledcore.com Haris

    I’m still left out :P . Can I have an invitation? :D I have heard a lot about Joost and looks like it’s time to give it a try.

  • http://www.rishiraj.info Rishi

    I don’t think I will call it a beta TEST anymore, 1 million users moreover Beta Testers are huge! Joost is really great thing but a big bandwidth eater :P !

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Haris: I don’t know what happened, but Joost seems to be crashing on my system. I tried re-installing, but didn’t help

  • http://www.macewan.org Robert MacEwan

    Initially I was very excited about the Venice Project. They sent me an invite and talked about the Linux version “soon to come”.

    Then they changed their name and revised their site layout. Surely the Linux client was just around the corner I thought.

    Now? They have a million users supposedly. I’ve lost any desire to test their Linux client.

  • http://www.technospot.net/blogs/ Ashish Mohta

    @Thilak: I still use it . Didn’t crash though but it needs a lot of bandwidth as Rishi said. India still needs a larger bandwidth.

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Ashish: I certainly agree with both you and Rishi. They need to come out with a Linux port of Joost, else they are loosing out a major market. BTW, can you send an invite to Haris (check your inbox)

  • Flashi

    I would happy to get an invite to flashi_mx AT yahoo.com