Comments on: Joost UK dissolves, office furniture already in the hands of another startup

By: office furniture

office furniture — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:22:00 +0000

I agree with you.

By: glass desk

glass desk — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:24:00 +0000

True its looks like it’s going to be a slow, painful death for Joost indeed.Joost’s office furniture?

By: Rosendo

Rosendo — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:20:39 +0000

Sometimes that will happen, selling furniture require positive mind set…

By: SeeSaw launches, UK’s answer to Hulu or another Joost? | MarketingTypo.com

SeeSaw launches, UK’s answer to Hulu or another Joost? | MarketingTypo.com — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:10:54 +0000

[...] Anyone remember Joost? [...]

By: Skype founders return with Rdio – a We7 or a Spotify clone? | IdolMasti

Skype founders return with Rdio – a We7 or a Spotify clone? | IdolMasti — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:51:17 +0000

[...] looks like the founders of Skype are already moving on from the recent Skype controversy and the failure of Joost. Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom are planning to return to the startup fray with Rdio, [...]

By: Skype founders return with Rdio – a We7 or a Spotify clone?

Skype founders return with Rdio – a We7 or a Spotify clone? — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:21:18 +0000

By: Pallet

Pallet — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:30:04 +0000

Aww..sad…

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:52:09 +0000

When Joost finally keels over and dies someone needs to write a book about it.

I’m fascinated by how arrogant the founders must have been, over capitalized, constantly overspending, overbuilding, ignoring user feedback at every turn, hyping everything they do, mistake after mistake and bleeding slowly to death while everyone watches all the while publicly denying the end.. Its epic

By: Joost UK shuts down

Joost UK shuts down — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:48:52 +0000

[...] The site is still online but, “the office furniture of Joost UK Limited, registered in England and Wales with number 05821718, has apparently already found its way to another startup,” says TechCrunch. [...]

By: Niall Harbison

Niall Harbison — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:13:26 +0000

The problem was never the technology but always the content. I could never spend more than 5 minutes on the site as there was literally nothing to watch

By: Video company Joost UK goes Titanic – no social killing field left | Muztec.com

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:28:06 +0000

[...] video company Joost heads for the deadpool mode to paraphrase our Techcrunch buddies. Joost, co-founded by Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, will put its UK subsidiary [...]

By: drew

drew — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:46:38 +0000

When Hulu comes in? To the UK, I presume. Will be when hell freezes over….Rupert Murdoch’s dead body.

By: Joost UK dissolves, office furniture already in the hands of another startup | Ashton Technology Blog

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:34:32 +0000

[...] Joost UK dissolves, office furniture already in the hands of another startup. [...]

By: Joost sluit kantoren in UK | TVJoost, weblog over films downloaden, internet tv, Joost tv, films branden en meer

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:33:12 +0000

[...] behalen op de online videomarkt, ondanks een herpositionering van de diensten. Dat is te lezen op TechCrunch. De sluiting van het kantoor kan het begin van het einde zijn voor de dienst die ooit werd gestart [...]

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:04:08 +0000

It was always cumbersome. A seperate software for Joost, that needed to be updated constantly. Hulu then comes in, with full, good, current and old TV programs and movies that I can view without needing to install anything. Just click and watch. Why bother with Joost?

By: Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:58:18 +0000

@Gooley – In 2007 year Nicholas Zennstrom of Joost did an event and asked the audience if anyone had used Joost. All hands went up. Someone else on the panel asked if they’d used it more than once. No hands went up. ‘Nuff said.

By: Robin Wauters

Robin Wauters — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:36:23 +0000

I know, I saw it, can’t retrieve it. Anyway, thanks for the pointers, wrote this pretty quickly, although it’s hardly an excuse (but maybe the fact that I’m not a native English speaker is )

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:34:49 +0000

That’s weird then – I did see my comment displayed on the page – it was definitely posted. Is there anyone else ‘moderating’ these comments, maybe?

Also, it’s ‘misery’, not ‘mysery’

By: Digger Derrick

Digger Derrick — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:33:07 +0000

Great Blog. Thanks for sharing. I really enjoyed it!

By: Robin Wauters

Robin Wauters — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:26:06 +0000

@Ben I didn’t delete any comments on this thread?

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:20:01 +0000

Oh, classy. I bothered to post results of my unintentional proof-reading of this article, and Robin has incorporated all of my revision suggestions, and then deleted my comment.

I mean, I finished with ‘pretty shabby’ (there were 8 or 10 glaring mistakes in this article) – but it’s even shabbier to just delete comments.

Robin, I believe the best-practice here is to use the feedback and post ‘thanks for the heads up’ – if you wanted, you could even email me to ask if I’d mind having the snarky bit taken out.

By: Gubatron

Gubatron — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:35:37 +0000

you mean Hulu’s office

By: Richard John

Richard John — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:33:07 +0000

9 Months? Staplers are the holy grail of office stationary, we’re talking 4+ years before you even get one on your floor.

By: Gooley

Gooley — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:27:52 +0000

Robin, thanks for your opinion that you’d like the Joost story to be over. Hard to believe.

Joost dug it’s own grave for sure. But drive by reporting from places like Techcrunch and Liz Gannes from NewTeeVee and SAI contributed. A little acknowledgment of that and impact the hyperbolic tone of you and your peers have on the direction of startups in general would be interesting.

By: Bysshe

Bysshe — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:12:31 +0000

“…out of its mystery”?

I’d hate to see Joost go – it was a damn cool site. Also has one of the biggest catalogue of music vids.