Joost acknowledges server error, promises fix
It's the age old story, company launches nifty new product, everything works great. Company upgrades said project, it breaks.A few days ago Joost moved from a closed private beta to an almost-public beta by giving every current and new user 999 invitations to give away. Apparently the servers couldn't handle that much traffic and Joost CEO Fredrik de Wahl writes on the Joost blog that the company is working on a fix.
For a company that's signing advertising and content deals left and right in the hopes of being the next big thing on the Internet, this is a rather unfortunate setback. But it's better to have these kind of errors during beta testing than after the product is officially launched.
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jigsaw hc said 8:19AM on 5-05-2007
That is odd. I've been using it without error for a month now.
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robby said 12:41PM on 5-05-2007
im a bit late on this and hopefully the noob pestering can stay minimal but, where can i get a quick invite?
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Truegod said 12:42PM on 5-05-2007
@Robby I'll send you an invite, but I need your email.
Thank god they are addressing the server problems. There have been some channels that won't even play and other times it will just buffers for about 10 minutes... But Joost is defiantly a really interesting service and I look forward to seeing where it goes.
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Prototype-Rob said 3:20PM on 5-05-2007
Sweet, thanks Truegod.
rob(dot)wert(at)gmail(dot)com
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bryan.casler said 3:20PM on 5-05-2007
I'm looking for an invite too, if you can spare 1/999th of your total invites :)
bryan [dot] casler [at] gmail [dot] com
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LazyMegaMan said 3:22PM on 5-05-2007
If any of you could be so nice as to invite me as well it'd be very appreciated!
lazymegaman at yahoo dawt com
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Matt DiTarando said 4:43PM on 5-05-2007
I would appreciate it if someone shot an invite my way as well.
ditarando[at]gmail[dot]com
Thanks!
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jake vance said 12:38PM on 5-06-2007
If anyone still has any invites left, I'd love one:
jacobvance (at) gmail (dot) com
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Arvin J said 2:24PM on 5-06-2007
If anyone has any left please send one to
arvin_s_j (at) hotmail (dot) com
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JT said 2:10PM on 5-06-2007
I would love an invite as well. I have been unsuccessful at getting one in the last month and do not know anyone who has them. Please help, I'm really wanting to see what Joost has to offer!
birdwithmonocle at gmail . com
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Shaun said 10:54AM on 5-07-2007
Hey just head over to joostswap.com and get an invite there.
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Jack said 2:35PM on 5-07-2007
Jumping on this bandwagon.
If any good Samaritan feels like passing an invite, please consider juriell (at) uiowa (dot) edu
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Ram Kuntamukkala said 10:47AM on 5-08-2007
Same here..
any one, please send me an invitaiton , i would appreciate it.
r(dot)kuntamukkala(at)gmail(dot)com
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Ryan said 8:16AM on 6-17-2007
Please i would love an invite blueraycrazy2006(at)aim(dot)com
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