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Update: Do NOT trigger the password reset!

username: first-come-first-serve-to-sofasportlers@sebrink.de

password: super-secret

Update: someone reset the password(don’t do it!):

URL: https://www.joost.com/ username: first-come-first-serve-to-sofasportlers@sebrink.de password: supersecret

have fun

Joost update:

In response to your request we have reset your password.Click the link below to create a new password:

https://www.joost.com/forgot/PTYytfWTrzU8D6EwDU4iwGtPH73jmv0gYKlznc.Mh0smuFMQA0jcr0.html If link doesn't work, you can try copy-pasting it into your browser's address window, or retype it there. Best regards,The Joost team

the joost folks start spamming to rush us its beta testers into sending invitations.

So hurry - time’s running out :)

To use your tokens, go to https://www.joost.com/betatest/invitations.html before March 22 and fill in the form. We’ll send out your invitation straight away.

ok, they asked for it and who am i to obey? To speed up and simplify things a bit i send an invitation to myself and give it to you. Here you get the beefy part of their invitation reply, go use it in what ever way you’re please to do:

To get started, please visit https://www.joost.com/betatest/ and login with your invitation beta access details:

Username: first-come-first-serve-to-sofasportlers@sebrink.de     (Case sensitive!)
Password: 96ffdayj     (Case sensitive!)

After you've logged in, visit https://www.joost.com/betatest/settings/ to choose your own password.

first come first serve, but i suggest the first one to choose a password just uses jyadff69 than all the followers can use the same account. you decide.

the mac client is actually quite nice and according to their own rumours a massive openening up and lots of invitation ar just around the corner.

have fun



Technorati Tags: joost, free, invitation, video, iptv, marketing

When i blogged last year about Joost the iptv project formerly know as “The Venice Project”, Falko rightfully commented the contradiction of a revolution not beeing started from a Mac.

So, here they are: Joost Mac OSX Beta released. After a 30MBytes download you drop it on your disk and start right away. It just plain f…ing works, “…behaving very much like a Mac application” like they promise with the release notes.

You get full screen video with ok quality, transparent control overlays and widgets. It is beta  a and you can see. The font rendering is not perfect and the app crashed on exit, but that is not something holding you back from using it and is honestly mentioned in the release notes. The content seems to be limited though and the widgets just cover the bare basics: video rating, chat, IM(jabber/gmail) and a clock(sounds like hours of fun). They must open up on the widgets(are they already? Don’t know) and improve contentwise, but that seems feasible to me.

A cute little detail in the end. When switching off you got to see the video collapsing and see a dimishing white little spot like from the cathode ray tubes. Only a little gfx coder gimmick or might it be a little wink toward collapsing Tubes?

Before you ask, while Joost seems to be open now, the Mac OSX still needs your beta registration, and i don’t have invitation codes left.

have fun 

Technorati Tags: iptv, joost, the-venice-project, mac, osx, beta

Au fein, endlich eine gelegenheit mal was über mein geliebtes AllOfMp3.com zu bloggen. Der lawsuit über 1.65 fantastillionen wird wohl auch dem letzten ahnunglosen AllOfMp3 bekannt machen. Klever. Ansonsten ist meine Liebe für AllOfMp3 ntürlich nur platonisch, ich habe niemals für 10cent einzele Songs oder für ca 1 Euro ganze Albem bei AllOfMp3 gekauft. Und ich bin natürlich auch nicht gegen den Schutz berechtigter Interessen der Musiker, aber wenn die gierigen Sesselfurzer von den Majorlabels anfangen 11jährige, die ihre U2 CD kopieren weil sie einfach keine 29,95Euro dafür ausgeben können, wie kriminelle zu behandeln, dann sind meine Sympathien sicher nicht auf ihrere Seite. Die Antwort der Russen? Kurz zusammengefasst: Alles Legal hier! Hehe, diese Chuzpe hat schon was, das gefällt mir. Klar, das ist ein Rückzugsgefecht, schon hat President Putin versprochen den Laden dicht zu machen. Aber die Jungs sind ja nicht blöd, mit allTunes fangen sie schon mal an den nächsten download shop aufzumachen, denn wer weiss schon wie lange sich allofmp3 noch halten kann, und man braucht ja schliesslich alternativen, hehe. Haben sie ja schliesslich gelernt vom westen, ist ja nun keine Planwirtschaft mehr.

Ein wirklich sehr lesenswerter Einblick in die Machenschaften der Musikindustrie in diesem Zusammenhang ist der Artikel von Courtney Love: Courtney does the math. Das hilft bei sortieren der persönlichen Sympathien ungemein.

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follow-up: Piracy, the better choice(tm), ein kleiner abriss über die gier der industrie und wie sie damit doch immer mehr auf die schnautze fliegen.

If you try and purchase any of this (HD DRM) content, you descend into a DRM nightmare of incompatibility and legal mires. Your monitor will not work with your Blu-Ray drive because your PC decided that a wobble bit was set wrong. You just pissed away $6K on a player, media center PC and HD TV for nothing, you lose.

oh man, ist der sauer.

hands up everyone who personally knows someone who got sued by the RIAA. Now, hands up everyone who knows someone who downloaded music or movies. Any guesses which one is bigger? Piracy, the better choice ™.

2007, der Anfang vom Ende von DRM?