Crackle is coming to Boxee with 49 Diff’rent TV show minisodes and 37 original web shows.

Crackle has long been a portal for great original web content, old TV shows, and movies backed by one of the industry’s largest entertainment companies (who also happens to make the PS3). We’re excited to say that now you can watch dozens of “minisodes” (5 min episodes) from TV shows like Voltron, Who’s the Boss, Bewitched, Rescue Me, Diff’rent Strokes and Married with Children. If ever there was a collection that spanned demographics, age groups, and genders, this is it.

Along with the TV shows, Crackle’s original web content brings shows able to highlight creativity and freedom rarely seen on a broadcast network. After watching episodes of “A Priest, a Rabbi, and a Minister Walk Into a Bar” and “dating Brad Garrett,” I was left wanting to explore more from celebrities like Adam Carolla, Brad Garrett, Jon Heder, and Charlie Murphy.

Enjoy Crackle on Boxee and recommend me your favorites (I’m academik on Boxee).

– Andrew

Set in modern-day Nome, Alaska, The Fourth Kind (in theaters this Friday) is a thriller that integrates never-before-seen archival footage into the film to tell the story of psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler (Milla Jovovich). While conducting a sleep disorder study, Dr. Tyler began videotaping sessions with traumatized patients and unwittingly discovered some of the most disturbing evidence of alien abduction ever documented.  Just watching the trailer freaks me out (click on the movie poster to see it).

To get people excited for the movie, Boxee’s in-house App Guru Shawn built The Fourth Kind Application, which includes TV spots, and other videos related to the film, as well as a collection of real-world video and photographic documentation of the four kinds of alien encounters: sightings, evidence, contact, and abduction.

This app provides an example of how companies can use Boxee to bring the creativity of the web to the TV screen.  Rather than being limited to a 30 or 60 second spot, Boxee’s platform lets content owners build a rich experience where audiences can use a remote control to interact with a variety of media related to a film, TV show, celebrity, band, artist, or brand.

So do you believe in alien abduction? Experience The Fourth Kind in theaters this Friday, November 6.

If you’re an anime fan, you’ve probably already heard of Crunchyroll.  If not, then let us introduce you to the web’s largest host for free, fully licensed Anime and Asian Entertainment.  The site has 5 million registered users, and great Anime including newer shows like Naruto Shippuden & Gintama and ones from the past like MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM 00 and Fist of the Northstar.

The team at Crunchyroll has worked hard over the past few months to build a Boxee App, and we are happy to announce they are ready to roll it out to Crunchyroll and Boxee users today.

The App organizes videos into Featured Content, Anime, and Dramas. You can filter by popularity, season, or genre in the Anime section, and the Drama section is broken down into Chinese, Japanese, and Korean content.  In Drama, there’s forty four Korean shows alone including Coffee Prince, Prince Hours, 90 Days Time To Love, Soulmate, and One Fine Day (thankfully there are subtitles for people like me who learned Korean from Arrested Development).

The Crunchyroll App will also let you search their catalog and access your Crunchyroll account.  Crunchyroll members get the added benefits of 480p and 720p HD streams + being able to watch popular shows as they air in Asia.

There’s free Anime & Drama a-plenty so add the App and try it out.

For Boxee users who want to keep up with the news, 1cast’s new application provides a simple real-time solution.  1Cast is a content aggregator of news & entertainment sources around the globe like BBC, Reuters, Agence France Press, Al Jazeera and CBC.  At 1Cast.com they package news from all of these sources into different categories and let users search for specific topics, creating personalized newscasts that are updated as new stories come in.

With 1cast’s new Boxee application you can quickly peruse the day’s most popular headlines and watch suggested stories from a variety of different sites.  You can also browse by network, watching the latest stories from organizations like Bloomberg, MarketWatch or CNBC one after another.

We’re happy to see more news content in Boxee, and encouraged by 1Cast’s approach of tailoring news to its users.  Here’s a look at the application.

With over 150 applications on Boxee we’ve seen a lot of creative apps, both visually and functionally, but today’s addition of Cliqset to Boxee has me in awe of how people are using Boxee’s platform.   Cliqset is a new startup focused on letting you share, discuss, and discover your life online.  It ties together 70 different services into an activity stream you can quickly share with friends and to social networks. Here’s a look at my activity stream through Cliqset, including Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and Yelp.

One of Cliqset’s main goals is to enable real-time communication across these networks and around specific events in your activity stream.  They’ve taken this focus and applied it to their new Boxee app allowing friends to have a conversation around a specific video.  Rob Spectre has ingeniously built this app to tap into Boxee’s “Now Playing” description so anytime you want to comment or chat about a certain video, just load the  Cliqset app while the video is playing and it will automatically link you to comments from other people who are watching the video, or who have watched it in the past.  Here’s a look at what Cliqset’s real-time video chat looks like on Boxee.

I sense many a long-distance date night taking place using this app : )

Cliqset just launched their Beta so sign up at Cliqset.com, and then install the app from the Boxee repository.