Joost Blog

Hi everyone,

I'm standing in as release manager this week and I've also been shepherding some of the newest features to a release, so I thought I'd give a little introduction to the latest release. First thing to note is that it's primarily a maintenance release with a bunch of bug fixes, including some adjustments to advert insertion points, "hand- raisers" (small boxed ads), some small things in the P2P layer, and some updates to the chat widgets.

The main changes you may notice are in the area of Joost links and in the addition of a new Widget: "Blog This". Each video and channel in Joost now has a web page or "Joost Link", associated with it, so that, if you so wish, you can link, blog, tag or cross-reference these pages to talk about the videos or channels that they represent. The page itself checks if you have Joost installed and if you have, you can click on a link which will fire up the player. Or you can just drag the link into the player and it will play. Joost Links have been quietly working for a while in the background, but now they work with channels as well as video. You can get the Joost Link from the info button in the player and then copy it where you'd like.

You can also use the brand new "Blog This" widget to blog about the video you are watching straight to your own blog, which also sends the Joost Link as part of your blogpost.

On our new developer site you can find out more about Joost Links and also some general information about our forthcoming developer API for widgets.

Soon you will be able to create your own widgets and do all sorts of interesting things with those and Joost Links. In the meantime, we hope you like what we have here and that it improves Joost for you.

Let us know either way!