I know I’ve blogged a bit about Joost lately, and I can’t seem to have a conversation in my real job without their name coming up. But I was finally given access to the Joost beta, and I’ll be sure to keep you posted on my experiences.

A fellow journalist recently was briefed by the Joost PR folks and was unable to get the Beta demo to work, but that’s why its called Beta.

It will be interesting to see, as Joost scales, how the local ISPs feel about the sudden onslaught of bandwidth being used by these P2P backed video networks. As a small time file sharer (bt.Tree.org for live concerts) I have had my bandwidth capped a number of times by Cablevision. If they are concerned about one guy sharing one live concert, they will be in for a rude awakening when everyone leaves their connections on - and uploading - 24/7/365.

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