After much analysis, we have decided to change our focus and to start providing white label online video platforms for media companies and distributors. We have built a solid technology platform that there is demand for in the marketplace, and look forward to this new chapter for our company. At the same time, we’ll continue to operate Joost.com and its associated video applications.

Unfortunately, as a part of this change, we will say goodbye to many of our colleagues and friends. This is obviously disappointing and sad – it’s never easy saying goodbye to coworkers, especially when people have poured so much of their time, talent, effort and emotion into a company. We appreciate the contribution that all of our employees have given to Joost, and wish them well in the future.

Thank you for all of your support.

The King of Pop transcended music, becoming a cultural icon of the type that the world might never see again. He single-handedly revolutionized the music video and the music video industry. Thriller, Black or White and Remember the Time featured intricate story lines and - unsurprisingly - elaborate dance routines that are entertaining in their own right - with or without the soundtrack.

Well after the stream of news and tributes in his honor has slowed to a steady trickle, his legacy will live on.

Maybe you were too young or not born, and you missed the cartoons of the '80s. Action figures of your animated friends He-Man and She-Ra never made it into your toy chest.

Or maybe, and most tragically, you weren't allowed to watch cartoons. Instead, you were forced to do things like play outside, finish your homework or practice a sport or an instrument.

Now you can self-diagnose and fit yourself into one of these categories. Or you can take our Retro Cartoon Quiz and put yourself in a category based on your results. In addition to Prince Adam and Princess Adora, there are the Transformers, G.I. Joe and more.

Good luck...and if you don't like your results the first time, try again!

To get a little more technical, some of the APIs we used have changed significantly, so we have to rework a great deal of the application logic to make the Joost app work on 0S 3.0.

We're working hard to finish the OS 3.0-compatible version and will submit it to Apple very soon - and hope that it will be approved quickly. We'll let you when the new version is available (or if you want to continue watching Joost on you iPhone or iPod Touch, don't download the 3.0 software update).

In the meantime, we released a version of Joost customized for the Sony PlayStation 3 today - check it out - and some other side projects - at Joost Labs.

Quite simply, if you click this button – and you’re signed up for Joost – then we’ll send you an email when there are new videos in the channel. Right now, we’re sending these emails twice a week – and we only send them to you if there are new videos in the channel. We include information about new videos in all of your subscribed channels in one email – even if you subscribe to 50 channels.

This week, if you’ve subscribed to some of these channels, you would be among the first to find out about these new shows:

• Showtime: the season premiere of Weeds – is Nancy pregnant?

• The Colbert Report: clips from Stephen Colbert’s Iraq trip

• TV Guide Celebrity Interviews: Mark Paul Gosselaar talking about a Saved by the Bell reunion

Some channels add new videos every day, while some add them weekly, monthly, or every couple of months. So if you have a favorite channel, it pays to subscribe – especially since it’s free.

Let us know what you think at feedback@joost.com – and don’t forget to manage your subscriptions and email preferences to make sure that if you’ve subscribed to a channel, you get the email updates!

As a TV actor, he was best known for his work on the 1970s TV show Kung Fu as David Chang Caine. Kung Fu is interesting to watch today - a retro look at a Chinese-American orphan raised in a Shaolin monastery in China to be a Shaolin master...who then travels to the "Old West," circa the late 1800s, of America.

First of all, you can now choose to share your actions – like watching or favoriting a video – from Joost’s embeddable player to your JoostFeed on Joost.com. In other words, you can be logged into Joost all over the web.

Hand in hand with that, you can favorite or shout at a video directly in the embeddable player - try it out on this episode of Naruto Shippuden. You can also share the video you’re watching with your friends and followers through Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon and Delicious.

The top right corner of the embeddable player has a Goodies tab – and clicking that tab gives you just that – Goodies. There’s a search box which lets you search for any video on Joost – and start watching it, if you’d like. (You can also toggle between a grid-like view of the different videos that match your search and a more iTunes-y like format, formally known as coverflow.)

The Goodies tab also has links to find related videos, grab the link for the video so you can share it with your friends or grab the embed code so you can embed the video you’re watching on your own website or blog. You can also find more information about the particular video you’re watching and link back to your profile on Joost.com.

Last but not least, there’s an Easter egg available. We won’t tell you exactly what it is, but if you enjoy the live programming we have, and you have your own website or blog, you’ll probably like it.

What do you think? Tell us at feedback@joost.com.

Edie Falco has traveled up the Jersey Turnpike to be a New York City nurse in the new Showtime series Nurse Jackie. It's not on TV until June 8, but you can watch the premiere episode now, and find out why Jackie, who, as you might have guessed, is a nurse, is part sinner, part saint.

Sharon Stone and Glenn Close appear in two movies - Basic Instinct and Fatal Attraction, respectively (as if we had to tell you that) - that are a part of our Paramount Pictures channel, our brand-new movie channel. In addition to these movies there's the Richard Gere - Edward Norton thriller Primal Fear, (as a complete aside, that title and Basic Instinct seem to go together, don't they?); formerly-married couple Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson (who, incidentally, was initially cast in Sharon Stone's role in Basic Instinct) in Dead Again; and Keanu Reeves and the other guy (whatever happened to him?) in Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey. Not to mention Eddie Murphy Raw, which has at least one person in our office reminiscing about the time his mom found his Raw soundtrack.

Speaking of outrageous moments (and movies) - we have clips in from last night's MTV Movie Awards. If you haven't seen the now-famous (or infamous?) Bruno/Eminem moment, now's your chance!

But Elizabeth Taylor is more than just another celebrity on Twitter. Don't forget about her first voracious talent which made her such an icon in the first place - acting. Check out this collection of her movies to see where it all began.

At the very least, there's a certain amount of self-indulgence that propels someone, anyone, to be on a 24-hour-a-day reality TV show - and/or a certain desire to cash in on something. Just look at Jon & Kate Plus 8 or any of the Real Housewives. But is that crazy or opportunistic?

Regardless, we love these shows...and there's a special breed of character that we love the most: The Outrageous Woman. Presenting, in no particular order, our four favorites:

1. Tiffany Pollard, a.k.a. New York: A reality-TV show veteran, at this point, this year New York is going to work at various jobs, chosen by her adoring public. Or maybe they're not-so-adoring, since they send her to work at a nudist colony, a pig farm and as an exterminator.

2. Daisy De La Hoya: Like other bachelorettes before her, Daisy has parlayed "not getting the guy" - in this case, Rock of Love's Bret Michaels - into a televised search for her own beau.

3. Stephanie Pratt: Oh, Stephanie, where to begin...but with a brother like Spencer, a sister-in-law like Heidi, and a supporting cast that also loves the spotlight, can we really blame her?

4. The Girls of Charm School: If it's possible, each woman on this show is more outrageous than the next, with the singular exception of Ricki Lake - she is "all that."

Last year, Beverly Hills 90210 was brought back to life. It's hard to believe it had only been gone for 8 years...and yet, how much things had changed since. There must be some inconsistencies in the timing - after all, you have to think we would've seen a little bit more of the kids who now roam the halls of West Beverly in the original. But we digress. Next year will be just like the old days, when Beverly Hills 90210 came on at 8 p.m. and Melrose Place followed it at 9.

It's unclear how this remake is going to work - we know that Ashlee Simpson Wentz is in it - but Michael and Sydney (dead or alive?) are also coming back. Will it just be the same housing complex with a different cast of characters - and if so, is Michael still living there?

Melrose Place will face some stiff competition from an NCIS spinoff, NCIS: Los Angeles. We already met the main characters for this one in the "Legend" episodes of NCIS this season, and it's probably only a matter of time before there's NCIS: [insert city name here]. After all, it worked for CSI.

Last but not least, and literally, last, because it won't premiere until mid-season, is the remake of V: The Series. Just like phonics, V stands for Visitors, and in this case the visitors are not-too-friendly aliens who have come to Earth. The original version of the show ended with a cliffhanger; perhaps the new series will pick up where that one left off?

Sometimes, we work with other services and develop deep integrations, like with Facebook and Netlog, and our experimental personalized music video channel generator, Jigsaw, is powered by Last.fm.

Other times, external partners use our API for integrations, like our friends at Boxee, or to make something completely new, like Paul Yanez's Joost Media Player.

We are always excited when external companies and developers come up with new ways to add interactivity to content or to consume our massive library of content all over the world. We'll continue to extend the ability to integrate with Joost, and look forward to seeing more awesome mash ups over the summer. In the meantime, have a play with Paul's air application, or play around with our api and experimental stuff on Joost Labs.

We got the chance to meet Marc from the eGuiders team a couple of weeks ago, and after we'd spent a bunch of time talking about our favorite videos and shows, both on- and off-line, we asked if we could be eGuiders. And apparently we impressed him with our talk of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, because he said yes.

So check out our special Joost spotlight on eGuiders - it's a bunch of videos we like, all in one place, and a couple of them might surprise you.

For my vacation, after a brief stop in Rome, I'll head to the island of Sicily. First stop is the beautiful city by the sea of Taormina, where you can take a train up along the still active volcano of Mt. Etna - let’s just hope it doesn’t erupt while I’m there! Heading to the north side of the island for a stop for a stop in the village of Castel di Tusa, I’ve found the perfect hotel - it's a museum, with each of the 13 rooms decorated by a different contemporary artist.

And another town I’ve discovered in my video research is Salemi, a little town on the western part of the island. It has a a random connection to my current home of New York City - the entire video collection of the former Kim’s Video (once a legendary spot in NYC) is now housed in the library of a 17th century former monastery.

So, where should you go on Joost if you're planning a trip this summer? TVF Docs Escape and Off the Fence channels have lots of great information and inspiration. Whether you're looking for an African Odyssey, A Shore Thing in Argentina or exotic Istanbul - or just want to take a little mental vacation to one of these destinations - you’ll be ready to say Andiamo!

Well, as we co-opt this gimmick for the internet, we're changing it a bit. Because we're not showing two videos from the same artist. Or even two videos that are slightly related, although I'm sure with some effort you could try to draw a very thin parallel.

Nope. We're just playing two new videos that set a new standard for awesome.

In no particular order, we present:

1. Up first, Matt & Kim's Lessons Learned. If you just listen to the catchy tune and don't watch the video, you'll miss out and want to start it over from the beginning. If you stop watching before it ends, you'll miss out and need to watch it again. If you watch it the whole way through like you're supposed to, you still might want to watch it over. And over.

2. Gael García Bernal is better known for his acting than his singing...and he really puts his best acting skills forward in Quiero Que Me Quieras, a Spanish-language cover of Cheap Trick's I Want You To Want Me. Like Lessons Learned, if you just listen to Quiero Que Me Quieras and don't watch it, you will be missing out.

So the songs do have something in common, after all.