Joost gets sensible in time.....

Tuesday, November 6. 2007

Joost gets sensible in time.....

Notes Read/Write web:

Joost, the desktop-based long-form video service that aims to take on the old TV model with a large pile of venture capital*, is scrapping one of its defining features built in-house, inline chat, and replacing it with outside chat service Meebo. Essentially, the announcement means that users will be able to chat with all their friends on MSN, Yahoo Messenger, AIM and GoogleTalk while watching the high-resolution, professional video content on Joost.

Or just chat instead of watching the Ads

Still, its good that they realised that Metcalfe's Law applies to them as well.

And why Meebo of all people?

Meebo is a VC darling as well - this is the kind of deal that high-powered investors can help make happen, a great example of why people say it's as much about the connections as it is about the cash.

Quite. The market still has to buy it though.....

* And all the same old content.

Posted by Alan Patrick in Triple / Quad Play at 08:43 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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