Joost Invites Available

Hello. You may have seen the small banner near the bottom-left of this blog mentioning a service called Joost. I have been a beta tester for it almost since its inception, and it's coming along pretty well.

What is Joost, you say? Well, in a nutshell, it's a website where you can view TV programs in much the same way that you might flip channels on your TV at home. There is content by some of the big cable companies, like MTV, National Geographic, and Cartoon Network, amongst others. What it isn't is live TV -- you aren't going to be able to view live network shows. But the limited content they have right now is fun, and more is being added all the time.

Check out the Joost promo video.

Per Joost themselves:

Joost is a new way of watching TV on the internet. With Joost, you get all the things you love about TV, including a high-quality full-screen picture, hundreds of full-length shows and easy channel-flipping.

You get great internet features too, such as search, chat and instant messaging, built right into the program - so you find shows quickly and talk to your friends while you watch. And with no schedules to worry about, you can watch whatever you want, whenever you like - as often as you want. Joost is completely free, and works with most modern PCs and Intel Mac-based computers with a broadband connection. Get Joost today!

Also, from the latest e-mail I received from them:

Last but not least, we invite you to enjoy the variety of new shows we're introducing each week. This week will bring you a host of over 40 new channels in the US including Adult Swim, five new channels from National Geographic, new channels like Spike TV from Viacom, great comedy from Heavy, and classic series from Hasbro such as The Transformers. And that's just the beginning.

And, as a beta tester, I've been given some invitations to hand out to folks that are interested in checking it out as they work through the beta phase of development. If you would like an invite, feel free to drop me a line via e-mail (please put "Joost Invite" in your subject line).

Finally, I don't know of anyone anymore that *doesn't* have a Google Gmail account. But if you're one of the few, and would like an invitation to open your own Gmail account, drop me a line about that as well.