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"Today Cliqset, a well-reviewed FriendFeed-esque startup, launched a Boxee app to give users the ability to talk about the programs they’re watching. Cliqset’s strength is monitoring some 70 social services and combining them in real time. So it built a software library around Boxee to enable real-time activities, which could end up being very cool.

But the app itself was barely usable for me. You have to open Boxee, install Cliqset, then start watching something on Boxee, then open up the app again. As you watch, you can enter in comments that load in real-time on the screen and are visible to other people watching the same content. However, comments are tied solely to the episode, rather than a timestamp within it. So when you load up the episode, you see a stream of comments from other people who have watched the episode or movie. Say the last thing they write about is the big twist at the end? That’s the first thing you’ll see.

This would work if you and your friends all agreed to watch one episode at the same time using Cliqset and Boxee together — of course, anything social requires friends to actually show up. Unlike other social TV projects, Cliqset requires users to sign up for their own accounts (which they can do within Boxee, but still), a further barrier to entry."

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Earlier this year, Boxee opened up its platform to enable third-party developers and content owners to create their own branded Boxee Apps, which then become available to users of its software.

Now, it appears Boxee is looking to create a billing system that content owners could use to charge for apps that end users download through the Boxee software. The system would presumably function like the App Store for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch devices, with Boxee taking a share of the revenues for apps sold.

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What Hulu’s not doing is enabling video downloads or transfer onto other devices. Hulu Desktop simply presents an alternate UI for the site (now with sound effects!) that’s optimized for remote controls. Not that we usually use remotes on our laptops instead of those other big honking screens…but Hulu explicitly forbids use on other devices in its Desktop terms of use.

You may not download, install or use the Hulu Software on any device other than a Personal Computer including without limitation digital media receiver devices (such as Apple TV), mobile devices (such as a cell phone device, mobile handheld device or a PDA), network devices or CE devices (collectively “Prohibited Devices”).

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ZillionTV, yet another company serving on-demand internet video to television sets, has unveiled its set-top box to a largely unenthused audience. With Apple TV, Roku, Vudu, 2Wire, Boxee and more already battling it out, it seems doubtful that a player so late to the game will survive. But ZillionTV is taking a different tack that could either help it cut through the competition — or completely tank.

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