Archive for the 'Joost' Category

Vlogs & Video Sharing, IPTV in Wired’s Geekipedia

Geekipedia is a one-off supplement to Wired magazine, promising People, Places, Ideas and Trends you Need to Know Now. It goes from A to Z, and feels a bit like Lilu learning about planet earth in the sci-fi parody Fifth Element. Geekipedia is a thin booklet, available online, which gives you a lot of systematized […]

Open API for Joost, the Peer to Peer Internet TV

Not only has Joost come out of closed beta testing on Oct 1 2007, but it has also opened its API door for third party widgets, which has become and is still becoming the default (see mashable.com for some examples) - a sensitive point in MySpace’s history, and a triumph in FaceBook’s. As Liz Gannes […]

Joost Getting a New CEO, Mike Volpi Former Cisco Guy

Ever heard of Mike Volpi? Not found in wikipedia? Stanford’s Volpi Bio says the guy is aggressive capable of carrying out aggressive acquisitions: “The 30-year-old vice-president of business development is Cisco’s point man for its aggressive program of acquisitions … Since joining Cisco three years ago, Volpi has led or helped steer 23 such deals, […]

Seth Godin: Sliced Bread, Ideas that Spread are Bizarre by Nature

The success of sliced bread is whether you can spread the idea or not. Nowadays, we could say, the success of sliced books, mags etc. (selling chapters, or even pages separately, besides full books) depends on idea spreading too.
“In a world of too many options and too little time, our obvious choice is to ignore […]