This week Idan descends on the boardrooms of Britain.

Since the Beta launch back in January , we’ve been working feverishly on software for the Boxee Box (we promise an announcement is coming soon), improving the general Boxee experience and adding more content to the mix.  We created the TV show library and added content from companies like the MLB, NHL, Crackle and we’ve got a full pipeline through the fall for adding more.

Unfortunately, as I found out on my recent trip to Israel,  much of this exciting content is not available to our friends across the pond. It’s time to address that.

With the help of our  friends at Brightcove, we have gathered some of the premiere content owners in the UK. Idan Cohen, co-founder and Boxee’s Head of Platform, (@idancohen) is packing his bags as we speak to travel to London in the hopes of adding as many of them as we can to Boxee.  In the next 6 months we hope to see more great UK applications like the BBC iPlayer running on Boxee.

Wanna meet Idan?  He’ll be speaking at the London Brightcove developer group meetup.

For those of you who might not know the difference between British and American content, we defer to British Transvestite Savant / Marathon Man Eddie Izzard.

We’re happy to announce today that Boxee users can now share recommendations with Google Buzz.

Since the official Google Buzz launch back in February, the platform has gained momentum with Gmail users who share status updates, photos, videos and more with friends on the social platform.  Google has done a great job of making the interface flow nicely, and it integrates well with Google Reader and Gmail. If you’re not a Buzz user,  you’ve most likely seen Google Buzz buttons popping up on some of your favorite sites next to Twitter’s “tweet this” and Facebook’s “like” buttons.  It was time to bring Buzz to Boxee.

Today at Google’s I/O Conference, Google introduced a brand new Google Buzz API. Boxee has been working with Google to help test the API and today we’re ready to introduce an exciting new application. Boxee users will be able to share what they’re watching with friends on Google Buzz and to import their Buzz feed into Boxee to watch video from their friends.  Now you can see video recommendations from friends on Google Buzz, Twitter, Facebook, and Boxee itself… it’s like being able to channel surf through water-cooler conversation from your couch.

Link your Google Buzz account from Boxee’s services page and try it out for yourself.

Over the past few months we’ve been working closely with D-Link to really get to know the Boxee Box. We’ve been running experiments in our lab in Tel Aviv, and well, the results have been astounding.

One Israeli researcher, Rafi Mizrahi, has developed a special bond with the Boxee Box… he feeds it, polishes it, takes it on walks, tucks it in at night. Rafi’s special “TLC” has dramatically influenced the Boxee Box’s progression from small standalone set top box to something much more…

This specific Boxee Box has grown to 5 times normal size.  It’s shed its austere black exterior for Boxee neon green, and taken a bath in Boxee logos.  Not content with a normal Boxee Box’s HDMI and optical audio connections, the Box has developed its own “limbs” in the form of  speakers and an HD monitor. It even has an IR port for that sexy Boxee Remote.  Here’s a picture of Rafi taking the “Boxeecus Maximus” out for a walk in sunny Tel Aviv.

If you see this Box in the wild without a handler, please report it to us immediately as it has been known to wander into local bars in hopes of picking up “content providers”.