Joost 0.9.0 has hit the beta testing community and sports a more polished interface, 26 channels and a new way to dish out Joost Invites. More importantly for me personally Joost now works fine without any kind of UAC changes in Windows Vista. No more need to ‘run as administrator’. The install process now detects Vista as an operating system option.
The major change in this version is the introduction of some new channels such as the ‘Soccer Channel’ which seems to be sponsored by that lovely pink Italian sports newspaper (you know the one.. James Richardson always used to read it on Gazetta Football Italia on Channel 4). World’s Strongest Man now has the full series up to the 2005 final. Hooray.. more Atlas Stones lifting.
Invites are now handled ‘in Joost’. This is something that has been mooted on the Joost user forums for a while but in 0.9.0 it has manifested itself as a Joost widget. Take a look on the screenshot on the left.
Joost also now offers users the ability to pick a username rather than using your email address to logon. I clearly chose Menori (couldn’t have Gary as it needs to be a minimum of 6 characters) as my name. Watch for me on the World’s Strongest Man chat channel.
There have been one or two fixes to some UI bugs too. I reported this one on the image on the left where when adding a new RSS feed to the Joost ‘News Ticker’ widget the ‘OK’ and ‘Cancel’ buttons did not get rendered fully. Such things have either been fixed, or on the case of the News Ticker, have been redone. (see below).
So Joost is clearly nearing completion and, with the introduction of new content, continues to be a very promising application. I can see me using it a lot when staying over in hotels rather than watching the standard hotel rubbish or having to pay for a movie to pass the time. And yes…. I do have more Joost invites now. 
Make an orderly queue.
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The interface looks pretty slick. I have been following the project and would love a joost invite if you have any to spare. Hope you enjoy being one of the lucky ones!
Joost invite winging it’s way to you Sean.
Do you have an invite for me? Thanks!
Seems you’re all ready on the Joost list napyfab.
I would love to try Joost. Do you have any invites left? If so, would you use one for me?
Thank you in advance.
Do you have an invite left for me?
im chrispitney (at) hotmail.com
cheers
This is a very exciting application development. Would you mind extending another invitation my way, I would really like to see it for myself.
Thanks
OMG, i have been looking for ages for a please where i could get an invite to Joost … Would there be any possibility that I could get an invite? Pretty please
I realise you don’t know me from Adam, but I’d really appreciate an invite too, if you have any spare!
Thanks.
:o)
Great screenshots!
Joost is one of the best products to come along is a very long time. Now, if I only had an invite ….
Nick
Good article! Been looking for info since a long time.
Do you have an invite for me? Thanks in advance…
Hi Gary, if you have any Joost invites left, I would be very grateful.
Cheers Raf
I think the whole thing looks pretty swish, it even ties in pretty nicely with the Vista Aero theme. I know as more and more people get high speed internet this is becoming less of an issue, but do you know what sort of bandwidth Joost consumes … i.e. I share my connection with my partner, will it be unusable whilst you watch. Any thoughts? Actually … any invites left? flippin’ things are rare as hens teeth!
Would love to get an invite… hit me with one if you please….
orbitant [at] gmail dot com