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Its always good to see innovative uses of ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ data and content, but to be awarded a prize too is even better. Ian Tweedie from the UK entered the for boxee. He won the peoples vote for video. Taken from the ,
Boxee-user Ian Tweedie was disappointed with the selection of Boxee applications available to those outside of the US. While UK-users could already access ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ's iPlayer, Tweedie created ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Live in just 10 hours to take the title as the first developer to bring live TV to European Boxee audiences. Says Tweedie, "I'm just a normal guy living in the UK trying my best to find a job whilst using my free time to learn and tryout fun new things... The dev challenge seemed the perfect excuse to dive in, because if TV isn't electronic heaven, I don't know what is."
Boxee is certainly gaining momentum with its open infrastructure and being across almost all platforms. Its a very good story of how commercial companies can learn and build upon open source and free software. is build on its bigger geeky brother , which has already captured many peoples imagination. Backstage gave at recently where we encouraged content producers to put there content on the web openly and use RSS to make it machine readable. Just like the which didn't win but was noticed by , it was easy to build the gui around the solid base of rss feeds and videos of the Open University's content.
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