Boxee Delivers an Open, Social TV Experience

Ever since YouTube opened a gaping maw for online video content in 2005, I've been attracted to the medium and its potential for new forms of narrative. Little did I know at the time that those new forms of narrative would consist mostly of befuddled kitten videos and increasingly brutal fail blogs. Still, I had my suspicions that a fully democratic web video platform would lead to all sorts of new experiments to get new types of videos, independent or produced, from independent creators to viewers. One of the experimental avenues for web video is the Boxee - a device that streams from nearly any web video source to your TV. I take a look at the device and its social features below.