Joost Invites Up For Grabs

Written on April 18, 2007 by Nick Santilli and 48 people have commented

By now I’m sure most of you have heard about Joost. It’s Tv on your mac with nothing more than an internet connection. I’ve been playing with the closed beta for a couple of weeks now and it’s got a lot going for it. Maybe not an Apple TV competitor just yet, but there’s definitely something to it.

So I’ve got myself 3 invites into the Joost private beta. Anyone interested? If so, leave comments on this post as to why you deserve this unparalleled honor…or something like that. I’ll choose 3 of your comments - either on merit or how greatly they amuse me - and email the invites to you. Don’t worry about putting your email addresses in the posts, it’s captured when you leave a comment anyway, so just make sure that address is valid. Good luck!

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  1. #1 Robert Stengard-Olliges says:

    ‘cuz I’m first to comment.

  2. #2 tommy says:

    Oh, I’d LOVE one! I’ll make you my new patron SAINT! I’ve been practically BEGGING for an invite!!

  3. #3 Chris Palle says:

    Hey there, If you have one, I’d appreciate it. THanks for your generosity.

  4. #4 Lonnie says:

    Ahhhh come on, you know you want to give me one.

    What? Just let me in. No, I’m not gonna do it.

    Fine. Fine.

    (raises shirt and proceeds to do the truffle shuffle)

    There.

    Now let me in.

  5. #5 Chris Hudson says:

    I would love one, but as I am 5th to comment I presume you don’t have enough.

    Would love one though

    Really would

  6. #6 Ben Kreeger says:

    Oh! I’d like one, but it looks like I’m too late!

  7. #7 Randy says:

    I sooo deserve an invite to Joust because I always survived the “Survival Wave” and “Egg Wave” and could defeat the pterodactyl at least 50% of the time!!

    And put me down for a Galaga invite too plz…

  8. #8 internhack says:

    I’m a student and an intern, and thus poor, poor, poor. Also, European, which means I don’t have access to iTunes TV downloads, or Netflix, or Blockbuster, and are you crying yet?
    Actually, I think I’d really *enjoy* Joost, so I’d be very grateful for an invite. That’s it.

  9. #9 leon says:

    Mwa haw haw! I don’t need your invites because I’ve got three of my own to hand out!:P

  10. #10 Dustin says:

    Lemme in, Lemme in…

  11. #11 Carles Raventós says:

    Joost For Everybody PROJECT : LEAVE YOUR MAIL AND ANYONE WILL INVITE YOU at http://fabricat.110mb.com/joost-invites
    More than 100 people invited!

  12. #12 Divigation (Grant) says:

    I don’t know that I deserve one over anyone else around here, but as a devoted TAB reader who always looks forward to and regularly comments on your articles I would love to be a recipient. It would allow you to ease some of the dissapointment that I have in not getting to move to Denver, since you played a role in me getting so excited about the city as a potential new home.

  13. #13 Michael says:

    Carles post wrong address. JOOST FOR EVERYBODY is at
    http://fabricat.110mb.com/joost-invitations

  14. #14 Nick says:

    Hey, it’s 10.4 only so all you guys 10.3.+, me including cannot do it.

    It’s a great little tool and should work well with Apple TV.

  15. #15 Honza says:

    I don’t deserve one either, but it would be useful for me, because I relocated for my job to a country that doesn’t speak English, not even as a 2nd language, so I cannot get ANY English TV here (Czech Republic). Did you ever try watching Tom Hank’s Castaway in Czech? - “VILSON!” :-)

  16. #16 Vann says:

    Wow, um.. because it’s honestly my birthday today. No joke, I’ll send a copy of my driver’s license if you want. These coincedences never happen to me, and i’d like to try Joost, so I’ll take what I can get.

    Thanks.

  17. #17 ClapForChildren says:

    oh dear dear joost inviter,

    please bestow upon me the hottest and most saught after web-based invite to be had in this day. with this invite i shall spread your hallowed message (whatever your message may be) across these many and varied lands, stopping only for taco bell and to check myspace. i swear unto thee that my aim is true and my head and person are pure enough for this challenge. bless me with an invite, oh kind, kind sir, and i promise that you shall tonight fall into the deepest of sleeps and awake refreshed and renewed, knowing in your heart of hearts that you have done the right thing.

    yours,
    a stranger on the internet.

  18. #18 Wes Bos says:

    If anyone didn’t get one here and could like one still, check out my blog (click.)

  19. #19 Kill Your Television says:

    I don’t want one, so don’t offer it to me.

    Just don’t.

    I’d hate, loathe, despise, abhor, distain, scorn and dislike an invite.

    Back off.

  20. #20 Nick Santilli says:

    SO FYI -
    I’ll assume that if you’re commenting here, you aren’t grabbing one of the freebies at other sites…

    I’ll post a notice once I’ve made my final decisions, and then you can go get one of the others elsewhere - I want to make sure these go out fairly to those who don’t already have one!

  21. #21 YodaMac says:

    Joost? What’s a Joost?

  22. #22 thatoneitguy says:

    Stuck in Iraq!!! Yeah, I got an EyeTV, and a pair of rabbit ears but I don’t speak Arabic! Help a mac junkie out!

  23. #23 Wes Bos says:

    Wow, thanks for all the emails already,

    There have been some creative ones but keep them coming!

    Three Joost Invites left

  24. #24 jeric says:

    No thanks, I got one already

  25. #25 Michael says:

    It looks very interesting I would Also like an invite

    Thanks

  26. #26 George says:

    Wow. Guess it would have helped if I had checked this site earlier in the day than now, but revision for finals beckons. That said, if one of the three invites is still going, then I am certain you all will have used procrastination loads at times of exams, and Joost would be a great procrastination tool!
    Feel pity on the lowly and bored Edinburgh maths student…

    Cheers

  27. #27 CyborgSam says:

    I have no real life, so I live vicariously through TV & Netflix. If I could watch TV on my computer I could pretend that all those hours in front of the Mac are productive.

    I’ll put Joost to good use: I’ll hook my PowerBook to the TV, put my lazy ass on the couch, and become a 21st century couch potato.

    Help save an old couch potato from becoming obsolete!

  28. #28 Jared Christensen says:

    I have not had Cable TV for the last 5 years!

  29. #29 Edward Scherf says:

    I’ve been trying to get my hands on a beta invite since the beginning it seems. I guess there aren’t going crazy with them like google and gmail was lol.

  30. #30 John says:

    I pride myself at being the guy who circumvents the corporate network nazis at my workplace to find new and exciting ways to use distractable content at work. Everyone keeps asking why I have a MBP on my desk in addition to the corporate Dell, and it’s because I use my Mac to run network workarounds of glee. I can IM and iChat despite network controls, YouTube despite bandwidth restrictions, blog despite site blocking, and more. Watching TV via Joost on the internal network would be the ultimate “stick it to the man”. Please provide me such joy!

  31. #31 OM says:

    my wife won’t let me get an Apple TV because we just had a baby so i’m hiring ninjas to take her out…

    please give me the invite so i don’t have to do this to her.

    thank you :)

    OM

  32. #32 Tom says:

    because you owe me?!

  33. #33 Junzi says:

    I am currently starting a nonprofit company that aims at MTV style scientific films. We are trying to partner with the Discovery Channel and PBS. I would greatly value this service and this invite because it would allow me to preview other content and potentially explroe a future content distribution system for my company and its productions.

  34. #34 sam says:

    Cause I’m just in this for the invite, but I’m not making up any lame excuses as to why I deserve it more than anybody else

    Oh, and I own a cool blog :D http://www.mongoose.co.nr

  35. #35 pete says:

    i sat in little old England waiting for an invite, anyone an help with one cheers

  36. #36 Bram says:

    I’m about to set off for Lebanon for three months to study Arabic, and I want to be able to watch a bit of American TV while I’m away.

  37. #37 Mark says:

    I sure would love one, come on you know you have one for me… :-)

  38. #38 JK says:

    Oh. Tis been a long night in front of my mac
    Gawd. Am I ready to hit the sac.
    And here ye come with yer offer for joost
    Givin’ me spirits a much-needed boost
    Cause online TV is the only thing I lack.

  39. #39 ThinkandDrive says:

    If there’s still an invite open, I would love to get a crack and playing around with Joost. I’ve jsut about had it with the more mundane media outlets. I don’t watch television if I can avoid it (except for Heroes, Lost and Ace of Cakes). I’ve also dumped all terrestiral radio in favor of Podcasts and my iPod.

    I’m just excited that there’s a “next big thing” and I want in.

    Errr. . . please?

  40. #40 Rocco says:

    But Daddy, I want a Joost invite. I want one NOW! *stamps foot*

  41. #41 The Dude says:

    I love Nick Santilli. May your first child be a masculine child.

  42. #42 Cory says:

    I think I’m gonna go with, “I don’t really deserve one, but it sounds like a fascinating idea, and I’d really like to play around with it. Also, I don’t get TV reception in my apartment, and I can’t afford cable.”

  43. #43 Doug says:

    Because something so good would help me not concentrate on this awful flu I have! Thanks for the chance!

  44. #44 Yusuf says:

    Because I have been studying for my law finals 12 hours a day stuck in the library for the past month, and I still have just under two months to go. I come home every night with nothing to look forward to but sleep. Please. You’ll be saving my life viz a viz my sanity. Too you’ll be providing me with enough excitement each evening so that I may continue this hum drum existence for yet another day!

  45. #45 Justin says:

    Do your part against media piracy!

    As you probably know, the Australian iTunes store is sadly in the middle ages…offering little more than a small cross-section of commercial music, the free video podcasts, and iPod games. We don’t get ANY of the movies, television series, or animated series available, so tantalisingly, in the US store.

    So I get to LOOK at all those mouth-watering US Sci-Fi series, but not buy and download them. Keep me off bittorrent (joyfully region free)! Get me Joost now!

  46. #46 PhiloII says:

    Yeah, whatever

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