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Beta Beat: We all missed the Joost Mac Alpha--but stay tuned

For a very brief time today, Joost opened up to Mac Alpha seeding. They filled their download quota within minutes. Joost nèe "The ViennaVenice[1] Project", if you're not familiar with it, offers high quality free online streaming video channels. It's from the people who brought us Skype and it's fast, clean and watchable. The good news is that next week the "final proper public beta" goes live for OS X users, although I believe it will be limited to Intel CPUs.

Keep checking in at the Joost site, and if you're one of the lucky 200 who got in early let us know in the comments how it's going.

[1] A famous European city that starts with "V"

For a very brief time today, Joost opened up to Mac Alpha seeding. They filled their download quota within minutes. Joost nèe "The...
 

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Brian

I just downloaded beta and posted a quick review here.

http://blog.brianwyrick.com/?p=7

February 18 2007 at 2:14 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
tom

If you're going to use French because you think it sounds chic, please check your spelling. It's written née not nèe.

February 09 2007 at 5:13 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ver2

If anyone has any invites please send invite to ver2dx -at- gmail -dot- com

February 08 2007 at 9:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Cody Jackson

Maybe it requires some intel-only features, like some weird SSE* instruction set.

February 08 2007 at 2:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jon Kantro

Can someone explain to me why this is intel only? It's not hard to build a Universal version

February 08 2007 at 1:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
KeepLooking

FYI, née not nèe.

February 08 2007 at 1:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris Martin

I signed up for this beta awhile ago, and even blogged about it in anticipation, and I have yet to receive an invite. I figured back then that signing up through the proper channels would produce an invite just as well as begging on forums etc.... I guess not.

So now I am asking if anyone has a beta account and an extra invite, one would be very appreciated. I am a masters student in Digital Media and I'm dying to try this out!

If you feel like sharing, send me a message at joost [at] roundhere [dot] net

Thanks!

February 08 2007 at 11:41 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mr. Matt

I snagged the Alpha and I'd tell you all about it except this damn non-disclosure agreement.

February 08 2007 at 11:07 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
geezer

if anyone has a free invitaion for Joost, please consider sending on to me! :)

February 08 2007 at 10:51 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mike

"Try getting hold of an invitation from another tester. All new beta-testers now get tokens allowing them to invite friends and acquaintances, and these tokens will give you instant access to Joostâ„¢. Get ahead of the curve - beg your friends for an invite today!"

Anybody wanna hook a brother up?

February 08 2007 at 10:02 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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