2 posts tagged “join”

joost

was shocked to see this email in my inbox today...

"I saw you were looking for a Joost invite on extremetech.com, I am selling a token I have for $20 paypal, amazon.com giftcard or iTunes giftcard."

i have been trying to get an invite to joost and would love to get one so that i can check out the service and see, first hand, what all the buzz it about but there is no service in beta that i would feel so compelled that i would pay to get an invite. i might consider it if the payment was going to go to the company beta testing their service (joost in this case) but why would i give money to a 3rd party? in my opinion, there's a question of ethics here. a person is attempting to capitalize on the ongoing work of another entity. the only reason this person has the ability to auction off a token is because he got into the line for the beta before me and others. i'll stick to waiting for an official invite to joost from joost.

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if john c. dvorak knew me he would call me a joiner just as he calls leo one and frankly he'd be right, at least in my case. i saw merlin tweet about it, heard leo and the gang talk about it on one of the podcasts and i was fighting the good fight in subduing the urge to join but alas after seeing that a few fellow vox'ers (leo, oski, phoneboy to name a few) were going to try it out i succumbed and joined. leo probably put it best in his post..."But sometimes they're really worth signing up for, and how do you know until you do?"