I've got three Joost invites, if anyone wants one.

UPDATE, 3:31PM: Invites spoken for! Jeez, that was fast!

Did you know that I've been doing a whole lot of research lately into the various options out there for online video? It's for a freelance project I'm not at liberty to discuss in public right now, but I can admit that these days I'm dealing with something like a dozen different services on a regular basis, some that deal with legal videos and some that don't. One that I'm interacting with these days is the much-hyped Joost, the indie-friendly open-source high-definition project started by the same guys who invented Skype, although admittedly I haven't used it much yet because I'm in the middle of trying to figure out BitTorrent, and it's hard to figure out BitTorrent. Anyway, it's an invite-only beta at Joost right now, and I just received three invitations I'm allowed to give out; so if you want one, just drop me a line at ilikejason [at] gmail.com, and I'll give them to the first three people I hear from. Don't forget, you'll need a fairly new computer with a decently fast processor, as well as the cards and drivers needed to deal well with streaming high-quality video; the good news, though, is that Joost is available for both Mac and Windows. Anyway, just drop me a line if you're interested...and needless to say, when I'm in a position to do so, I'll be putting up a whole series of detailed entries about my video research, including simplified instructions for using a typical BitTorrent client. It's about fucking time someone wrote something like that!