Joost revealed !

Today, The Venice Project has revealed its brand and commercial name: Joost™


and with it, its new web site joost.com and a new client 0.7.3 with a joost skin (for beta testers only [1]).

From now on, it means more content, a client still in beta but even more stable than ever, new features in the coming days, and more and more beta testers.

For me, it means also I can now talk about it using its real name :)

[1] As we have now more invitations to distribute, send me an email to get one if you really intend to help us and give good feedback on Joost - I keep one for you, Guillaume, who ordered a DSL connection to be able to watch Joost (or was it to work at home as well?)

The Venice Project from inside

This project is really amazing.

Because of the incredible features we are building that will revolutionize the concept of TV,

because of this improbable roadmap we are conforming to successfully (just having a look to what we have achieved during those few months is amazing),

because of the team itself so skilled and recognized on so many open source projects (where is the other half part of the Apache Foundation members employed ?),

because of the management of this ambitious real startup which has means to do what she pretend to (this is the first real startup for me, and having participated to it from nearly the beginning of the product development is so exciting and so rich in things learned),

because of the vision and the means of Janus Friis and Nicklas Zennström, the rich and popular co-founders of Kazaa and Skype and now The Venice Project (to answer here to a question I've received several times: yes, I've met them, they are real, I've touched them, and I've also had several diners with them and the whole team, I'm not joking),

because it makes us stretch ourselves in such an environment. We have pressure, too much work planned for each of us (we accept it!), too much information to deal with, big operational constraints, and we are doing a good job and have good feedbacks from our colleagues. We are motivated and amazed by the work accomplished by ourselves and the whole team. We are proud and confident in the fact that we are writing (code lines actually) a page of the Internet history, something that will count.

We simply cannot imagine how proud we will be to have created this in few years.

I'm happy to see that some beta testers share those feelings with us as well, while they help us validating and enhancing the product. Thanks !

.Thibault.

Note: we are still happy to welcome new testers and new developers (we have a lot of incredible work to do and we are hiring people - needs for our team is really strong Java skills).

Note 2: to answer to the large number of emails from people asking for tokens, I'm sorry to say that as a small number of servers are running in data centers for now (increasing but still not enough today), we have a limited number of tokens to give and we first give them to people we know (I know you? ping me).