Well in the case of Joost its because peer2peer is at the heart of their system and theres no standard way to achieve that in web browsers yet. I dont think Id even think of Joost as an aggregator to be honest, its much closer to the old TV model.
The other reason people want a desktop (or device-based) aggregator is the idea of the videos being downloaded to local storage for them automatically. Thats definately one of the things that got people on this list and elsewhere excited about the likes of fireant, and podcasting was pretty much born out of this stuff. I like both approaches. For finding stuff Id rather use mefeedia and similar, and if I ever find shows I want to stick with, I'll use a desktop aggregator or more recently the nokia podcasting thing on my phone. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In [email protected], "Frank Sinton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I like Joost, but the question i keep asking about these "players": > Why aggregate on the Desktop / Player? It just feels like the player > will eventually be ubiquitous - you will play your media on whatever > device you are currently on - Desktop, iPod, XBox 360, Car TV, > Airplane TV - whenever you want access to what you want to watch, > you will be able to get it. > > Web-based aggregation just makes so much more sense if you look at > it from the perspective of what aggregators should do best: > > 1) Help people discover great content, and help content creators > gain audiences. > 2) Give people tools to organize and share that content with others. > 3) Provide an easy mechanism to enjoy that content on whatever > device / player the consumers and creators want. > > Our belief is that the aggregators that do these three things well > will provide value and rise up above others. It just makes so much > more sense for this to be web-based and be independent of the type > of content (viral, vlogs, MSM). The future will be about people > enjoying content from CNN and Rocketboom, Scrubs and Ask a Ninja, > The Office and Goodnight Burbank. It is very similar to how i read > news today - Wall Street Journal and PaidContent.org, Business 2.0 > and TechCrunch, etc... > > Andrew - fell free to give me a call if you want to discuss. 310-927- > 7841. > > Thanks, > -Frank > > Frank Sinton > CEO, Mefeedia > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 310-927-7841 (cell) > Y: fsinton > Skype: fsinton > > http://www.mefeedia.com - Discover, Collect, and Enjoy great videos > and podcasts > Our blog: http://mefeedia.com/blog > > --- In [email protected], "Steve Rhodes" <srhodes@> > wrote: > > > > Well, Joost had initial buzz because of their previous record > with Skype. > > > > And that buzz helped lead to a lot of deals. > > > > One question will be how much promotion those partners will give > joost (as > > opposed to their other partnerships and own sites), so it could > potentially > > move beyond everyone who wanted an invite because of buzz (and > scarcity). > > > > And how well they can scale. People used to tv just working > > aren't going to come back if joost crashes their computer > (particularly > > if they can get the same content elsewhere). > > > > They also need better information on the shows people might not > > be familiar with. > > > > Another is if the advertising will be more creative than other > efforts. > > > > For an ad based model to work, at the very least they need to > better > > understand > > the medium. When I watch a Fox show on myspace, they show the > same damn > > ad I'm not interested in in the first place four times. So I just > hit mute > > for 30 seconds > > and read (or do something else during the ad). > > > > Ofcourse, I usually do the same thing when I'm watching old > fashioned tv, > > but... > > > > -- > > Steve Rhodes > > > > http://ari.typepad.com > > > > http://tigerbeat.vox.com blogs > > > > http://flickr.com/photos/ari/ photos > > > > http://del.icio.us/tigerbeat interesting articles & sites > > > > http://twitter.com/tigerbeat > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > >
