Joost
Sign in to saveJoost () was an Internet TV service, created by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis (founders of Skype and Kazaa). During 2007–2008 Joost used peer-to-peer TV (P2PTV) technology to distribute content to their Mozilla-based desktop player; in late 2008 this was migrated to use a Flash-based Web player instead.
Key facts
- Software.name
- Joost
- Software.logo
- Joostlogo.png
- Software.collapsible
- yes
- Software.screenshot
- Joost.PNG
- Software.screenshot size
- 250px
- Software.caption
- The Joost homepage in May 2009
- Software.developer
- Joost N.V.
- Software.latest preview version
- 1.1.7
- Software.operating system
- Windows XP, Vista;Mac OS X (x86 only), iOS, PlayStation 3
- Software.language
- English
- Software.discontinued
- yes
- Software.genre
- P2PTV
- Software.license
- Freeware
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Joost () was an Internet TV service, created by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis (founders of Skype and Kazaa). During 2007–2008 Joost used peer-to-peer TV (P2PTV) technology to distribute content to their Mozilla-based desktop player; in late 2008 this was migrated to use a Flash-based Web player instead.
Joost began development in 2006. Working under the code name "The Venice Project", Zennström and Friis assembled teams of some 150 software developers in about six cities around the world, including New York City, London, Leiden and Toulouse. According to Zennström at a 25 July 2007 press conference about Skype held in Tallinn, Estonia, Joost had signed up more than a million beta testers, and its launch was scheduled for the end of 2007.