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As Mashable has reported this morning, Joost has now moved to a web based version. If you don’t know what Joost is, it is basically a television streaming service but without the ads. There are hundred of channels to choose from and you are able to watch programs straight in your browser.

Joost has channels in a variety of sectors, old television programs, sports, news, music videos and more. It is totally free to watch and can be viewed from any country in the world, unlike Hulu.

When you head over to the site all you need to do is register and then download the plugin that launches the application within your browser, and thats it.

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This morning I came across a new service called Ronin. Ronin is a flexible application designed for creative professionals looking for an easy, affordable, web-based way of managing clients and invoices. Ronin is more than just software, they are a service.

With the Ronin service there are no fees or update costs involved. All data is protected using industry standard SSL encryption and nightly back-ups.

There are a lot of different companies within this specific niche, but I do think Ronin is worth a try. I would also like to see them produce a few more services similar to this invoicing application, then they will have a nice little package that will hopefully moves users amoungst each product.

Napster have announced that they are dumping their desktop client and re-launching with a new web-based version. Napster customers will now be able to listen to their music from any computer anywhere in the world. This will hopefully enable Napster to also develop embeddable widgets that can push their products on possible web enabled devices.

Napster is still going to be based as a subscription model, which most industry experts think is holding back the company, because it makes Napster incompatible with the iPod. Consequently Napster has lagged behind Apple’s end to end iTunes system which reportedly controls 70% of the digital music market.

UMG has announced they are now happy with iTunes and the revenue split, so it is only a matter of time before DRM free becomes standard and Napster will really need to gain some market share before Apple.

If you would like to see a slideshow of the new Napster service, please head over to Crave.