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Cliqset brings real-time conversation to Boxee

andrew kippen — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:08:23 +0000

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.

Watch TechCrunch 50 on Boxee

andrew kippen — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:16:09 +0000

TechCrunch 50, what the Huffington Post is calling the ‘Sundance of Startups’, is taking place in San Francisco. The event showcases 50 startups, fighting for attention from VCs, journalists, and business partners at the event. TechCrunch is live-streaming the entire event via uStream along with behind-the-scenes interviews with presenters like Penn (from Penn & Teller) and Google’s Marissa Mayer.

For those who’d rather surf through the event’s footage with a remote, Boxee App guru Rob Spectre has put together a clean application to give you access to the conference’s online video content. Watch the action happening right now using the “watch live” feature or choose from behind the scenes videos with Mike Arrington and some of the presenters / attendees at the show.

Here’s a peek at what it looks like.

Best of luck to all the startups presenting there, and thanks to Rob for another good app.

Kid Mango brings kid’s entertainment to Boxee

andrew kippen — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:09:14 +0000

We’re happy to announce our first fully customized Boxee App for children’s entertainment: Kid Mango.

The KidMango library brings together popular children’s shows from some of the world’s best producers of animation and live action and includes over a thousand videos covering everything from Einstein to aliens, vampires to Leonardo da Vinci. The App mimics www.kidmango.com where shows are organized by age group so that parents of preschoolers, older kids and tweens can all quickly find the content that is most appropriate to them. While the youngest children might need help from their parents in playing shows, older kids will have no problem loading up their favorite shows.

The Kid Mango App on Boxee makes it easy for parents to find great, free entertainment for their kids.
Here’s a peek at the App, which is available now in the Boxee App Box:

The KidMango Boxee app was written by Rob Spectre, a Boxee App specialist. You can check-out the breadth of Rob’s work at www.gonzee.tv.