Boxee one of my favourite startups at the moment is unveiling its beta version of the popular Boxee software. I’ve been using Boxee for almost an year on my Macbook Pro and needless to say the experience is simply wonderful.
With today’s Beta launch Boxee aims to enter newer territories with the launch of a dedicated Boxee Box in partnership with D-Link. What’s more important is a totally revamped and redesigned interface for Boxee, that makes using it even more fun. The UI changes aren’t the only changes though, Boxee beta brings about many major under the hood changes that will allow for less resource intensive playback of your media.
Boxee for Windows will shift from using the OpenGL graphics engine to DirectX runtime, along with support for Nvidia’s cheaper but faster Graphics chips. I believe these are major steps for Boxee, because for so long it has remained in the confines of Mac and AppleTV users, with Windows/Linux Adoption being almost negligible.
Before I tell you about the Dedicated Boxee box, lets have a sneak peak into the new Beta interface. And I have to say the new UI is a marked improvement over the old one, and I can’t wait for the nice people at Boxee HQ to give me access to the beta 
Looks like we will be very soon seeing the first iPhone only Social Network or a Consumer Network as the guys behind TheBlackApp put it.
Nothing much is really known about this startup at the moment, but it could potentially be a hit considering how much Internet crazy iPhone users are. They plan to launch it on June 5th which means that it will possibly launch before the iPhone firmware version 2 appears at the WWDC this June.
The only question will this be a native app that runs on Jailbroken iPhones, or will it be a native app using the SDK or will it be a web app?
I tried finding out as much as possible, but couldn’t. I’ve emailed the developers and am awaiting their reply. Once they do, I’ll update this post with more details. Until then lets keep our fingers crossed people!
Right now the registrations are on, so you might as well signup before the slots run out.
Have a look : TheBlackApp, Thanks Shankar Ganesh
Here are the answers to the questions that I put forward to the developers of The Black App : Read More
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