Boxee App Store coming

Although I am a Plex guy, there have been some comments and interest from people who are Boxee fans. And they're both definitely great front ends - its like a Coke v Pepsi thing I guess lol.

So for those Boxee Players, I offer this news post of news from Engadget/ArsTechnica - and for those Plex lovers, you'll love the next post after this one :)

http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/09/boxees-app-box-and-api-goes-live-could-come-to-other-hardware/


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.
Slashgear also added news of Pandora to Boxee:
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To demonstrate the new API, Boxee has released two initial plugins: Pandora and RadioTime. The former allows users to sign in with their standard Pandora account, set up stations and listen to existing Quick Mixes, while the latter offers over 100,000 streaming radio stations.

Eventually developers will be able to charge for their Boxee plugins, but for now all extensions will be free. Boxee have also answered the call for Hulu support by embedding a Mozilla-based browser into the media center.