Archive for January, 2009

Jigsaw: Joost Music Experiment

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

We’re quite excited to present the first “Joost Labs” project: Project Jigsaw.

Project Jigsaw is a small project that experiments with how we present music videos, both visually and how the music line up is created. It allows you to play music using “artist name”, “tag name” or “last.fm profile name” to fill your queue with good music. You can also use the search box to search for more music and then drag’n'drop them to your queue, or re-arrange your queue by drag’n'dropping videos around.

Jigsaw Screenshot

Jigsaw Screenshot

We have over 10000 music videos on Joost, so Joost can be used as a pretty good jukebox. As we do not have all the music in the world on Joost though (naturally :) ), we use last.fm to look up related artists for the artist you’ve chosen and find music that is related in our content catalogue.

FAQ:

  • Why did we do this? Because we love music, and we like to experiment.
  • Where will this go from here? Who knows :)
  • Why is it missing feature X? Because it’s an experiment, it’s not meant to be perfect
  • Will it break tomorrow? Possibly (”get it while it’s hot” … and works! :) )

So go ahead and try it out. We look forward to hearing your feedback on it!

Joost Labs is born !

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Joost Labs is born ! It’s still in a early stage as you can see, but this gets closer and closer to being active. We are still shaping a little bit our environment, so pardon the dust.

In the next couple of weeks we hope to make this place with some information, tips, insights and various experimental projects.  This would enable us to be more collaborative and incorporate early feedback from you in order to shape some features or projects in a way that meet your needs and expectations.

If you like working with early projects despite some rough edges we are definitely looking forward to your feedback !