boxee's App Box and API go live, could come to other hardware soon

Not that there should be any shock surrounding the formal introduction of boxee's App Box and API -- after all, both were teased sufficiently during last month's bleeding edge alpha release -- but we're still thrilled to see things moving along nicely. This week, the open source media platform launched both an API and an application portal, both of which will act to bring all manners of third-party gems to the media browsing world. boxee doesn't plan on being any sort of gatekeeper (at least for now), which hopefully will spur innovation and get more developers interested. In related news, ArsTechnica has also found that boxee is currently in talks with a few big players in the hardware space, essentially hoping to get its 1s and 0s onto game consoles, Blu-ray players and other set-top-boxes. There's no clue as to the whens and wheres, but we suspect this means there will be no dedicated STB in the near future -- for better or worse.

[Via ArsTechnica]

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 4:36PM]

Tivo and or PS3 Please.

[S4Rs Posted Apr 9th 2009 2:30PM]

I wish they made a lightweight linux distro that was "Boxee" that I could load onto my PS3. Something that was meant for the cell processor and not a crappy version of Ubuntu running it. Granted the main difficulty is in the fact that OS's cant use the PS3's graphics card, and its only 256Mb of ram.

The service would explode if they did that though. The PS3 should be able to handle it.

[h0mi Posted Apr 9th 2009 2:53PM]

Port to blockbuster's 2wire device please.

[Trial Posted Apr 9th 2009 3:38PM]

My name is Boxxee, and it's been a while since I made a new blog post!