The Red Cross (International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement ) has “collector week” from 24 to 30 june and brought out a new campaign which uses the viral marketing concept.

It allows the viewer to personalize the ad movie by adding their own avatar to the head of the Red Cross “collector”.

Watch my personzalized movie here .

This philosophical teleplay covers many themes such as, the nature of reality, individual versus scientific perception, self-reference, man’s relation to others and society, insanity, social projections, and race relations. It originally aired on NBC’s weekly anthology television show NBC Experiment in Television February 23, 1969. The production was produced and directed by Jim Henson, and was one of several experiments with the live-action film medium which he conducted in the 1960s, before focusing entirely on the Muppets and other puppet works. The screenplay was co-written by long-time Muppet writer Jerry Juhl (who also appears in a cameo).

(Thanks to Patrick Flanigan , who uploaded it to Google Video)

I assume that everyone on this planet already has a Joost account since the invites are now open. If in any case you do not have a Joost account yet and you need one, just leave a comment and I will send you an invite.

We invite you to enjoy the variety of new shows
we’re introducing each week. This week we bring you a host of new
channels from Universal Music, great science fiction like Earth Final
Conflict, and Creature Comforts from Aardman Animations. We’ve also
got swimsuit models and snowboarders, anime and animals, and much
more. But that’s just the beginning.
Each week we’ll launch new channels – making sure you can watch what
you want, when you want. So stay tuned…

I enjoy Joost but I do notice the quality of the sound is some-kzkkzkzk-ti-kzkzkzkz-me-kzkzkzkzkzkkz-zzz. Here you can find the current channels if you haven’t watched Joost yet.

(For english speaking readers: a song about a little suburb in Maastricht from someone who left it a long time ago, like me, in the dialect of Maastricht bij Bennie Neyman .).

Dit klinkt toch wel heel heimwee achtig, hier vanuit het verre Amersfoort. Ik denk dat ik Trok nao Amie ga opnemen… en straks vanaaf de A twie richting het noorden… Stiekem toch wel heel mooi. (Voor niet Maastrichtenaren compleet onnodig om te bekijken).

I downloaded the movie from: marlstone. Voor alle Limburgers in het noorden!

Just to tease you if you haven’t got a Joost BETA invite yet…

Gong – the Manga Channel

Live @ Much, found a cool Nelly Furtado interview here

World Poker Tour – good channel to enhance my skills

LX.TV: Lifestyle and Culture

IndieFlix Premier Hits Movie Channel

Today Joost extended it’s beta program. I got an invite, so I downloaded it, to see what the buzz was all about (participants are Warner Music, Endemol, Ministry of Sound TV).

My first emotion was the obvious special “beta participant” feeling, the second was amazement how good the GUI “feels”, the third one was: this will become BIG. It has a real natural “game” interface: just simple controls but it feels pefectly and it’s…. addictive.

It has some very good TV Channels on a variety of topics and undoubtly there will be gazillions more on there soon. The GUI is excellent, giving a real “game” experience, full screen modus and various widgets like chat on the TV channel, RSS feeds on the side etc… 

On the “football screen” above (a Football channel) you can see the controls, which disappear when you don’t move the mouse. It allows access to loads of channels, and all programs on each channel are directly selectable!

“My joost” is a widget overlay, where you can see on the left that I placed a clock on it, an RSS feed, a chatroom to chat live with other participants,etc…

 I am watching the channel “XL Recordings” here  and the programm is called  “Basement Jaxx – where is you heads at - Live recording at… ” etc… which I can see immediately via the infobox.  Via the programm selectors I can then select any live show or whatever they have in their programm list (like a zillion Prodigy recordings).

I think the content is important for Joost and the beta catalogue in there is really good. Here you can see a list of channels which are playing on Joost. Well… I’m going to watch some SciFi movies now on the SciFi channel… If you need an invite, just leave a comment and as soon as I get them I will distribute them (the first two will be for TsuiHark and Nepeta, who have already reserved the first two invites). THIS IS HOT!

Read Wikipedia for more background info on Joost .

update: first 3 invites sent to nepeta, tshuihark and victor (first commentator)

Digg – Blog: Joost invitation project (a digg community effort)

When I was in University (Cognitive Science) these 20+ hours of MIT video’s were part of our course LISP. So I had some real retro moments watching them. If you don’t know them and are working in “the IT business” these video’s are a must-see, they are part of our collective consciousness. (especially for  ex-cogw-ers: Arie , Jelle , Danny , Paul , Marieke , Frouke , Gijs , Patrick , etc …).