I quit Joost to join Cloudkick in August. I was originally working on the P2P team (working on the code that the whole Skype Lawsuit is about), but after we changed to flash based, I worked on http based content distribution and the webapp.
Joost certainly was a ride as an employee at times, there were massive mistakes in Technology (RDF?, P2P?, server side javascript anyone?), and Management Team (read the depositions from the closed lawsuits, the Mike as CEO was making deal to buy Skype while laying off Joost Employees).
I personally saw much more of the faults in content acquisition. Once Hulu struck deals with most of the major premium content providers, nothing could compete. And without high quality content, there was nothin you could do on the site to make up for it
Even today, YouTube is locked out of the content by Hulu.
Joost certainly was a ride as an employee at times, there were massive mistakes in Technology (RDF?, P2P?, server side javascript anyone?), and Management Team (read the depositions from the closed lawsuits, the Mike as CEO was making deal to buy Skype while laying off Joost Employees).
I personally saw much more of the faults in content acquisition. Once Hulu struck deals with most of the major premium content providers, nothing could compete. And without high quality content, there was nothin you could do on the site to make up for it
Even today, YouTube is locked out of the content by Hulu.