A quale altro client dovremo presto dire addio in favore di una soluzione web? Basterà una pagina web per IM, chiamate e videoconferenze? A quando una versione di Skype web-based? Provate IMO per farvi un’idea. La tecnologia sarà quasi inevitabilmente Flash.

CEO Mike Volpi acknowledged in an interview with CNET that the desktop client was one of the company’s missteps but that the new browser-based player would provide ease of use, a high-quality video experience, and more content. The new site, according to Volpi, will even be less taxing on laptop batteries. News of Joost’s new site was first reported by The Industry Standard.

But the big question that Joost must answer is whether the site overhaul comes too late to catch to Hulu or Google’s YouTube.

Joost pounced onto the online-video scene with seemingly the right combination of founders, investors, and technology. The media instantly christened it a legitimate YouTube killer.

The start-up was the brainchild of Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, the founders of Skype and Kazaa. Among the backers were media conglomerates Viacom and CBS, parent company of CNET, publisher of News.com. Joost was powered by the same peer-to-peer technology that turned Skype and Kazaa into the most disruptive forces in the telephone and music sectors, respectively.

Via About time: Joost to launch browser-based player | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone – CNET

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