Haha, after using the new Joost for about 10 minutes I was so annoyed I was almost about to write this exact same blog post.
If you don’t know what Joost is, don’t bother checking it out, its just some really badly executed web video startup (that came before Hulu) with WAAY too much funding that should have just been put to death after the 1st month it came out.
I think Joost will forever be a lesson in the annals of web design history - if you neglect the user’s desire to interact with your content in order to greedily gain more registrations or show off over-thought design / animation / etc you will ultimately fail, no matter how much money and talent you have.
