You might have heard some rumours in the last few days that we were about to release a flood of invites for Joost. It's true that we are indeed scaling up for a much wider release... very soon, so keep an eye out here for updates over the next couple of weeks.

We're determined to make Joost a great experience for all of our viewers, and we want to make sure that we don't unleash it on the world before it's ready. Watch this space for a new version of the product, a new-look website and some great new content - it's all about to happen!

Good news - we had a few palettes of servers and routing gear arriving - and we are currently shipping these out to various Data centers in the US and Europe as part of our Long Tail Storage push.

Credits: Fotoset by colmmacc The first batch has gone off to Los Angeles (though unfortunately it took nearly a week before US customs cleared the last piece of kit) - and the next two batches should go out this week to two other locations.

We're reaching another big milestone this week. After months of testing with many thousands of users, we're ready to move Joost on to the next stage of its development.

In preparation for this we're closing down applications for the beta testing program on the website at the end of Thursday (GMT). Between this time and the public availability of Joost, access will be by invitation from beta testers only.

So this is last call to apply via the website!

The good news is, that everyone who applies before we close will get access to try out Joost within the next couple of weeks - how is that for a treat? :o)

As you can might imagine, this is a very exciting moment for us. A big thank you to everyone who has helped to bring us this far - and to the rest of you, we look forward to inviting you to try out Joost for yourself very soon.

At last, after several months of delays BT finally delivered a crucial fiber connection. It links our engineering and transcoding center in Leiden to the peer to peer broadcasting facility in Luxembourg. So this means we can start 'broadcasting' in earnest. And to make good news even better - we also got the much needed redundant connection from Luxembourg to Amsterdam as well.

Slowly but surely all the pieces of the puzzle are slotting together.

Hey everyone - today we are proud to present: Our brand new shiny website. Our web team and friends have been working night and day to give our online home a much needed makeover...and here it is. It's now much more in tune with our software and hopefully easier to use too. We really hope you like it as much as we do. Please also have a look in the "What's Joost" section where there is a cool new video explaining who we are. And of course, stay tuned for the upcoming new version of our software and loads of new channels.