Joost Partners With Meebo

Published: November 6, 2007, 12:07 am

Joost, the desktop-based long-form video service that aims to take on the old TV model with a large pile of venture capital, is scrapping one of its defining features built in-house, inline chat, and replacing it with outside chat service meebo. Essentially, the announcement means that users will be able to chat with all their friends on MSN, Yahoo Messenger, AIM and GoogleTalk while watching the high-resolution, professional video content on Joost. It's a good combination. If you haven't checked out Joost lately, I can tell you that I looked at it for the first time in months tonight: it looks nicer, has far more content (and ads) than before and appears more stable on a Mac. It's free for anyone to download. The meebo integration was supposed to have gone live minutes ago, I'm not seeing it yet but I'm sure it will arrive soon. A web-based cross-platform chat client, meebo says more than 1 million people spend over two and a half hours each, daily, on its site. Joost,

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