boxee demonstrates his “social” media center on ces.
boxee plays media from your computer and other devices in your home network, as well as connect you to various internet sources that allow you to stream or download movies, tv shows, music and photos.

boxee is based on the xbmc open-source project.

enjoy your movies, TV shows, music and photos, as well as streaming content from websites like Hulu, Netflix, CBS, Comedy Central, Last.fm, and flickr.

via [blog.boxee]

Labels: audio, social_software, video

via [maestroalberto]

Labels: fun, video

Snackfeed tries to aggregate the best and most popular videos from the web. most people were primarily interested in watching the web’s most popular clips. The site now serves these first, and then tries to fill in “the gaps” with recommendations based on the user’s favorite blogs...

via [twitter.com/snackfeed]

Labels: video, web_2.0, web_apps

now it looks like YouTube is starting to add some honest to goodness high definition, 720p videos to the site. Members of the Video Help forums have spotted some videos available in HD, including the popular "Where the Hell is Matt" video.

via [downloadsquad]

Labels: fun, video, web_2.0

Visualizing the commit history of the Eclipse IDE project.
Project page: vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/codeswarm/
Open source: code.google.com/p/codeswarm

Music: "Orange" by Etherfysh magnatune.com/artists/etherfysh

Used with CC by-nc-sa license and made with Processing. processing.org

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Labels: audio, javascript, mashup, opensource, video

Joost after spending more than a year has finally come out with its much waited web based video service. The idea of moving from software based P2P network to the browser based must have come from the growing trend of bringing the desktop to the browser and it isn’t bad at all...

It looks and feels exactly the same, and best of all, now all Linux users can enjoy the vast content

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Labels: video, web_2.0, web_apps

YouTube is now offering 15 50-minute episodes of classic TV shows including Star Trek, MacGyver, and Beverly Hills, 90210 with "prominent new ads." Coupled with YouTube's newly-launched theater view, this looks like an easy way to wile away a Friday afternoon. [via]

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Labels: video

Livestation is built on a sophisticated P2P technology and offers realtime live television high quality streaming over the internet in a desktop application.

The new release will sport a new social feature to allow users to “Buzz” interesting news so that other ones can “Buzz” in to the news or jump in a chat session to discuss it.

via | tags: livestation iptv realtime live television

Labels: software, video, web_apps

RichFLV is a free Adobe Air tool that performs a number of operations on FLV video files, including merging files, extracting sections from larger FLVs, exporting audio as FLV or MP3, converting to SWF, extracting individual frames to image files, and defining cue-points and metadata. Operations can be performed on the whole video or user-defined sub-sections.

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Labels: software, utilities, video

Filmmaker Michael Moore is giving his next movie, Slacker Uprising, away for free on the internet. The film will be available to stream or download from Blip.tv starting September 23rd. The move is kind of interesting, since Moore's last film, Sicko was leaked online before its theatrical release, and Moore publicly stated he didn't have a problem with the leak.... [read on]

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Labels: collaboration, communication, sharing, video