Last night, on June 23, Avner Ronen, the founder and chief executive of Boxee—the open-source software platform that reinvents the living room by bringing all kinds of Web content onto your TV screen—announced that Major League Baseball will be the first premium content provider to stream Read More
Standing on the stage at Webster Hall in front of a standing-room only crowd on March 24, Avner Ronen, the founder of Boxee, announced some big news: Hulu is back. Mr. Ronen, dressed in his Boxee shirt, beer in hand, released a new “alpha” version of Boxee, the open-source software that is Read More
Matthew Caldecutt’s first cell phone was the size of a brick. During the mid-’90s, as a teenager in Rego Park, Queens, he bought an Audiovox model from Verizon—a clunker of a phone that could make calls and send text messages. Most of his friends didn’t have mobile phones yet, but they did have computers, so Read More
New York-based consulting firm Herman Blackbook is offering seed funding for developers making applications for open-source platforms like Twitter, the iPhone, Boxee, AppNexus and more. With their "New Platforms Fund," the company will give up to 10 "cutting edge" ideas (they’re not talking iFart here) $1,000-$3,000 each to develop into Read More
Boxee, the free open-source software that could change your living room experience forever, got busy during the Thanksgiving break and just released a new alpha version, adding Netflix, The WB (Buffy fans, rejoice!), MTVMusic and other features. Boxee users can now play, browse, and queue ‘Instant Watch’ movies through the application.
What should media organizations do to survive? "We should embrace change,” Jeff Jarvis tells John Koblin. “Instead, too often we fight change. That’s the nature of organizations and institutions that hold power. Change might mean losing power. The great and magnificent irony of online—this would really send [Ron] Rosenbaum’s spine up—is that in my Read More
Fred Wilson watches television in a modern living room, but it probably isn’t quite like yours. Call it living room 2.0. As managing partner of Union Square Ventures—which invests in budding tech start-ups like Twitter, Tumblr and 10gen—he often brings the latest gadgets and social networking whats-its into his West Village home. He says his Read More
Apple TV, Steve Jobs’ digital media device, went on the market in March 2007. But sales have been lackluster and, in an Oct. 21 earnings call, Mr. Jobs said "the whole category is still a hobby right now. I don’t think anybody has succeeded at it and actually the Read More
We were at the NY Tech Meetup last night, hosted by Meetup founder Scott Heiferman himself, at the ridiculously gorgeous/high-tech IAC building in Chelsea. In the huge lobby, budding start-ups have five minutes to present their new projects to investors, colleagues and developers. Here’s one we were pretty excited about: Boxee. It’s Read More
