joost

Joost, the revolutionary online TV service, is the new craze on the Web. However, if you have been using it extensively, you may have noticed that you are running out of disk space. Ouch!

Not sure how it behaves on Windows, but on OS X, Joost demonstrated an early bug - it "eats" disk space through thoughtless caching. Hopefully, Joost guys will fix the problem, in time, but for now, unless you have unlimited disk space, make sure that you periodically delete:

~/Library/"Application Support"/Joost/anthill/anthill_cache under your home folder.

Have fun

The dominant question popping up in a pragmatist's mind, observing the Web 2.0, is: how come people get so much free time in an increasingly hyper world? With the amount of blogging going on, either half of the literate population is procrastinating or the sales of Red Bull has to be booming.

Either way, even a child knows, these days, that it's all about content. If you got content - you got audience, with which comes influence, network effects, possibly money and vast amounts of bloated ego.

The thing about content is - presentation is every bit as important as the substance. Therefore, it is no surprise that the boom of Web 2.0 was inevitably followed by the revolution in the user-interface aesthetics.

The rarely addressed, yet important feature of the user-interface design is - scalability. If scalability for a software system means its ability to take brutally high user traffic without major changes to the source code, scalability for a user-interface means the ability to display vast amounts of content with the same crispiness which it handles just a handful of entries with.

If you are a Web 2.0 enthusiast you, probably, have already heard of Joost - the Web 2.0 version of the future of the television.

Joost is in its beta phase. It is free but invitation-only. To use the service, somebody has to invite you.

I have some invitations available and you can get them by simply asking. Leave a comment to this message, if you want me to invite you.

Please, do not forget to provide your valid e-mail address in the comment form. You can enter it in the contact information section, not necessarily in the comment body - this way I will still be able to see it and your privacy will be protected.

Please, note: some people have reported problems receiving Joost invitations on Hotmail and Yahoo accounts. If you don't get an invitation, get a free GMail account and try again.