In last post i had mentioned Boxee’s dev challenge. Also, i had thrown a semi cooked idea out of my brain regarding putting academic lecture videos on boxee.

This evening, after 15 days of hectic work, i got some time to read my feeds. To my surprise, Whatever i had mentioned, had won Judge’s choice award in the video category. Roshan Revankar had built the app and won.

Looks like there are other working on the same wavelength as well

Video startup boxee is promoting its apis. I saw a mail in my inbox a couple of days back regarding developer challenge over building apps for boxee. A quick run through apis told me that the apps are dead simple to build and are primarily content driven. In short it is an effort to put more content on boxee dashboard for users to consume. I use it sometimes on my ubuntu box.

Here is an idea for someone who can devote some time for build an boxee app. Many universities are hosting their channels on youtube. I myself am a great fan of Prof. Leiserson’s algorithm lectures available here. It would nice to have some of those on boxee. Good education is not a previlege, but should be a fundamental right to all. These lectures will definitely benefit many to whom this sort of quality is not available.

In case anyone has some bandwidth to develop, i am ready to assist