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Joost makes last call

It's last call for beta testers for Joost. Those with existing Joost beta invites have to pass them out by midnight tomorrow and everyone who applies for the beta program is guaranteed to get a ticket in within the next few weeks.

Joost's special invite only beta was enough to cause quite the stir on the web and spawned a huge "Joost Invitation Project" on Digg with over 2,700 posts requesting an invite with very few actually managing to get one.

We got an invite into the beta program a few weeks ago, and after trying it out have to ask "What's all the fuss about?" Joost does look pretty neat with a variety of widgets that go over a nice video player window. The video quality is pretty sub-par however and the things that they offer for the most part aren't anything anyone would really want to watch, and we're not too excited that what you do watch is encrypted so you're forced to watch them using their closed platform.

The jury's still out on this one. With Viacom recently signing on as a Joost partner we could start seeing some interesting programming, and perhaps some more big name partners being added soon. Joost is definitely not perfect, but it does make a decent step toward bringing television to the web. For those of you out there in TV land that were lucky enough to score an invite into the beta program what did you think?

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