Joost assets bought by online ad company Adconion

The struggling online video startup Joost, begun with much fanfare by the creators of Skype and Kazaa, has been sold to an online advertising company.

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Skype founders file suit against Skype buyer

The founders of Internet phone service Skype have filed another lawsuit that may put a wrench in eBay Inc.'s plan to sell Skype for $2 billion to a private investor group.

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Joost exits consumer online video business

Struggling online video startup Joost, begun with much fanfare in 2007 by the same people behind Skype and Kazaa, is restructuring its business after discovering that it can't survive on advertising to fund its operations.

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Correction: Cable-Joost story

In an April 27 story about online video site Joost, The Associated Press erroneously used the term "unique visitors" for Joost and its rivals. The numbers cited were for "unique viewers," meaning visitors who have actively watched video on those sites. The count also includes people who have viewed videos distributed by those sites to other Web pages.

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AP sources: Joost seeks cable TV operator as buyer

Online video site Joost is shopping itself around to different cable TV operators, but at least one has declined to buy it, according to people with knowledge of the talks.

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Joost relaunching TV site as online shows abound

Forget about the boob tube. Places to watch TV on the Internet are proliferating, from NBC Universal and News Corp.'s Hulu to Joost — a site that plans to relaunch Tuesday to make it a more interactive experience.

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Dutch Internet TV Company to Show CNN

Joost, a company attempting to broadcast television via the Internet, said Tuesday it had signed several new content distribution agreements, including one with Turner Broadcasting System Inc. to show CNN news and interview programs.

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Joost - Boost or Bust?

Joost had a dramatic re-launch during September this year, after taking a break to work on it's services to try and catch up to other sites such as YouTube and Hulu.

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last100 is reporting that Joost (last100 review) is planning to let viewers access its Internet TV service via a Web browser, rather than requiring them to download and install the current Mac/Windows application.

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Ditching your cable company has never been more viable than it is today. The rise of online, streaming TV shows allows you to save on one of the most expensive household bills if you are willing to sacrifice a bit of the convenience of having either a cable box or DVR.

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Joost just made some folks in the United States very happy as they are now serving up the entire original series of Star Trek (ST:TOS to those in the know).

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It's not Youtube, but in some ways thats OK, meet Joost

Joost is a recent newcomer to the world of online video, having just started this year. It's concept is that online TV should be free, punctuated by a few short ads, and that users should be able to watch what they want, when they want, the way they want.

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When it comes to new technology, 2007's destined to be remembered as "The Year of the iPhone"—but a whole lot more went on in the past 12 months besides Apple's much-hyped gadget launch.

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The Writers Guild strike already stripped us of our Daily Show and Colbert Report, and now it may take away Heroes and House as well.

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Viacom has put online the entire eight year archive of its top rating comedy series, Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a move which will be closely watched by all the major networks, advertisers, telcos and the burgeoning new media video industry.

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There's a time bomb out there with Joost's name on it. Full-screen, broadcast-quality video streams—the main selling point of Joost's peer-to-peer Internet TV client software—is quickly coming to the Web.

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Things seem to be really hopping over at Internet broadcaster, Joost, as they finally go public with their beta.

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P2P video service Joost quietly slipped its 1.0 beta for Mac and Windows out the door late last week, and we were curious as to why there was no fanfare for the (almost) 1.0 release.

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has announced a deal with Major League Baseball to make the upcoming MLB playoffs available on the video service. Joost will feature all games from the Division Series, League Championship Series, and World Series within 24 hours of their initial airing.

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new ways to love old tv

Even the most casual viewer of The Simpsons would know of Homer's love for his TV. What a great invention; a box with vibrant, colourful stuff spurting out at us while we do nothing. No wonder I have to drag my kids away from it kicking and screaming.

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The Online Publishers Association issued a new study today that reports that people now devote more online hours to content than e-mail or other communications, a reversal from just four years ago.

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An independent developer has built a Flash version of Joost that runs in any browser.

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Not all of the startup action happens in Silicon Valley. Business 2.0 Magazine picks the top websites outside the U.S. that are changing the world. (more)

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Peer-to-peer Internet TV service Joost will use Level 3's industrial strength backbone and colo network to support its bandwidth-hungry service. While Joost uses P2P distribution for some of its content, it also relies on centralized servers.

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Many sites are incorrectly reporting that Microsoft is developing LiveStation, while other sites just aren't making it clear that Microsoft only has a very small stake in the company that is developing it, and they're not really involved in the development process.

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Can't find someone who can invite you to the Joost beta? Desperate to try out Pownce, but nobody you know has gotten in yet? Invite Share attempts to link people who have invites with people who need invites.

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Back when I was giving away free Joost invites, there certainly was a lot of buzz about this application. However, it seems to have quieted down and last night I had a chance to see what has updated with Joost.

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With internet TV being praised everywhere as the next big thing, I just have to wonder if all the hype is really true.

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Internet TV Applications Reviewed: Is Cable and Satellite Soon Obsolete?

With Internet TV being praised everywhere for being the next best thing, I just have to wonder if all the hype is really true.

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THE RUMORS OF THE DEMISE of television advertising and the 30-second spot have been greatly exaggerated. The prevailing fear of the complete transition of television content to the Internet -- and the horrible impact this will have on television advertising -- is just plain wrong.

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How do you find the TV shows that are online? TV Networks are making shows available online more and more now, but you have to look all over the web to find them.

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When the pale blue "Linux car," also known as car

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