Joost Relaunches with Flash-based Video

By Geoff Duncan
October 14, 2008

Online video streaming service Joost is relaunching itself...and this time it's streaming video using Flash technology instead of its own client.

It wasn't so long ago that all eyes were on Joost as the Internet's best hope for delivering an Internet-enabled television experience. From the founders of Skype, Joost promised to integrate social networking elements with full-screen, streaming of both live and independent content. But one huge barrier to entry for Joost—besides having to have enough bandwidth to make watching full-screen streaming video a reality—was having to download Joost's client software.

Today Joost is relaunching, and the client software is gone. Instead, the service is relying on a new Flash-based, download-free playback engine that provides access to the full library of Joost content and offers social viewing functions.

"People have always relied on their friends' recommendations to figure out which movies they want to watch, or talked about their favorite TV ...

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