He feels Boxee’s strength lies in its open approach to developing for other pieces of hardware. I asked Ronen about the possibility of seeing Boxee create its own set-top box in the future, but he downplayed that. Over 40 were submitted for the competition, including quite a few using the all-important Twitter. And the developer challenge apparently yielded a lot of interesting apps as well. You’ll be able to stream music shared by people you follow on the blogging platform, as well as play picture slideshows.Īnd finally, Boxee is announcing a partnership with Current, to offer its news and entertainment programming.Īll told, there are now well over 100 applications available for Boxee (something around 120, we’re told), so that’s why it needed to make some interface changes to accommodate all this new stuff. Tumblr is another service Boxee is adding support for tonight. In the future, you’ll be able to Digg items right from Boxee as well, we’re told. Everyday, tons of videos become popular through the social voting site, and now Boxee is giving users a way to see those through its software as well. Ronen notes that he hopes this is the first of many live experiences Boxee is able to offer, stating that other sporting deals are being talked about, as well as the possibility that live news could come someday.Īnother addition is Digg video content. MLB.tv is a premium service that requires either a monthly or one-time fee, but it’s already very popular, and all those users can now access it through Boxee. This will mark the first time that Boxee users will have access to live content through the software. The biggest of those is support for MLB.tv. And that’s being revamped a bit as well tonight to make room for the other new features being launched. Boxee’s interface, on the other hand, is very nice. While Boxee is great on the computer, it’s arguably even better on a big screen television, many of which typically feature awful user interfaces. And perhaps more importantly, it will work on machines with Windows Media Center, many of which are hooked up to televisions in living rooms. While this is just an alpha version of the product for Windows, it will be open for the public to use. And that’s undoubtedly an understatement, given the success Boxee has already had minus all those Windows users. “This is huge being able to serve the rest of the computer market,” Boxee CEO Avner Ronen tells us. But obviously, Windows PCs are the vast majority of the machines out there. While many developers go the other way, Boxee started as a Mac and Linux product first. But the real winner tonight will be Boxee, which is also announcing a boatload of new features and functionality for its media center software - none bigger than a version of Boxee for Windows, finally.
Boxee is holding an event in San Francisco tonight to declare a winner of its App Dev Challenge, in which third-parties created apps for the media platform.
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