This is perhaps the best followon to my post about Renee’s observation about living in an echo-chamber – what is all the excitement about joost for? Let’s see p2p streaming techonology – that’s been around for years from folks like kontera and even in video form for the last year from AOL with their very cool in2tv application. So nothing new there. Let’s see high quality video content – been able to get for years direct from sources like abc.com, indirect like youtube or even torrents. So basically there’s no killer new technology and we’ve seen online video before. Maybe the content is hugely unique and compelling – not yet – sure they’ve signed a deal with viacom and cbs – but all of that content is already available online. So again why all the hype for joost?
Oh wait – that’s right it’s because it’s the kazaa and skype guys who made a bundle on both. Maybe someday the hype will be justified – I’m just not there yet. And this coming from a guy who is a total sucker for shiny, new balls evidenced by the fact I bought an apple newton (pda) and pj jukebox (first HD based mp3 player) back in the day.
