Joost is a program that's been out for a while now, but I've waited until now to post about it because I was originally only marginally impressed by it. They had the right idea, but the content was lacking. But that's all changing now. First off, here's what Joost is according to their website:

Joost is a new way of watching TV on the internet, which uses new and established technologies to provide the best of both the internet and TV worlds. We're in the process of making it as TV-like as we can, with programmes, channels and adverts. You can also see some things that we think will enhance the TV experience: searching for programmes and channels, for example, as well as social features like chat. There are many more new features to come in future Joost releases.

Basically, it's more TV-like than YouTube, and higher quality. The program I tried a few months ago was slick and had a nice interface, but had few channels and not much content that I was interested in. But as they start moving towards going public, they are getting more content. And it looks like they are solving the problems of lag they were having as well.

They just released a new beta, and it's interesting. They've got music videos, TV content such as episodes of Stella, Freakshow, and Dog Bites Man on the Comedy Central channel, a soccer channel, poker content, and much more. While they've said it is a TV-like, it seems more like On Demand TV since at the moment you can start any show on any channel whenever you want. You can, however, also let a channel play like TV or tune to the What's Popular channel to see what others are watching.

All in all, this is a nifty app with some great potential in a space where we haven't seen much yet. And it's likely that may remain the case since it's not likely that the networks will make deals with multiple companies.