Online Video Topic - " Joost "
Joost Reinvents Service as Brandable Video Platform
Joost was what the creators of Skype went on to after it was sold. They’ve recently announced a new focus for the company, mainly they want to be a white box video platform and they’re working toward that goal now.
The new Joost will seek to allow media companies to create a branded video sharing presence for themselves. It seems that Joost wasn’t doing so well as a consumer-facing product, competing directly with YouTube, and so they’ve moved their aim at bigger potential clients. Meanwhile Hulu has taken the lead for high quality broadcast TV video online.
Joost Streams Online Video to Your iPhone – New Joost iPhone App Launched
Joost, the Flash-based, global web video service, today announced the launch of a Joost application for the iPhone and iPod touch. The new free application is available through Apple’s App Store (http://www.apple.com/iphone/appstore/) and enables iPhone and iPod touch users to enjoy thousands of hours of anime, comedy, drama, movies, music, documentaries, sci-fi and sports over their Wi-Fi connections.
Joost Gets Funnier with CollegeHumor Online Videos
CollegeHumor (www.collegehumor.com), the definitive source for irreverent student humor and leading online source of original comedy videos, today announced that it will bring its high-quality CHTV original videos to Joost(TM) (www.joost.com), the world’s first broadcast-quality Internet television service.
2008 & Future Online Video Value Chain Predictions

Every Thursday at AltSearchEngines, they feature posts from Guest Authors from from the search engines themselves. Today, AltSearchEngines posted the following future predictions from Tom Wilde, CEO of EveryZing, the multimedia search and merchandising platform.
Backlot – Free Video Content Management and Syndication Platform

I was reading about Ooyala just today and it occurred to me, wait a second, my good friend sitting across from me mentioned he was working with them on something… I will tell you more about Ooyala, but safe to say (knowing my friend), they are going to have one incredible product when it launches in full.







