One Pure Thought – Hot Chip
The british invasion continues with Hot Chip.
Month: December 2008
How to get Netflix working on Boxee
The response to the new Boxee update supporting Netflix has been fantastic.
I think it’s a great combo. I watched a movie last night. If you follow me on Twitter you would have seen this recommendation at the time.
But several of folks have sent me an email asking exactly how to set it up.
Here are the steps:
0. If you aren’t already a Boxee user, then drop me an email or leave a comment and I’ll get you an invite
1. Make sure you Mac has Microsoft Silverlight installed.
http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/
2. Log into Boxee, download & install the latest version
3. Goto your browser and login to Boxee and scroll down and follow the steps to authorize Boxee to access your Netflix account
http://app.boxee.tv/home/account
4. Then launch Boxee, select “Video” on the left nav bar, select “Internet Sources” and then you will see Netflix appear in addition to MTV, Hulu, CBS, NextNewNetworks, etc.
5. For the first time, when you choose Netflix in Boxee, you will need to enter your Netflix username and password. You only have to do this step once.
Keep in mind that all of this will get easier to use as the software is still in alpha.
That’s one of the main reasons it’s still invite-only mode.
Enjoy.
Union City Blue – Ted Leo
I’ve been traveling to NYC a day a week for the last few months and I don’t see that changing any time soon. Union City is just on the other side of the lincoln tunnel. (Original song by Blondie.)
New version of Boxee now supports Netflix and more
Boxee released a new version of their app today for MacOS.
It’s a big one. Lots of enhancements to Hulu support, better Flickr & Picassa support and more.
But the most exciting thing is that you can now stream movies from Netflix with Boxee. That was the biggest feature request in Boxee’s recent user poll and these team jumped on it.
With the new Boxee release you can play from your Netflix queue, add to your queue, see recommendations, new releases, check out this weeks favorites, browse the entire library by genre and search.
To use the new version of Boxee you will need a Mac. Unfortunately the new release doesn’t work with AppleTV at this time.
For all the details about this release check out Avner’s post on the Boxee blog. Also take a look on Fred’s blog and watch a recent interview Avner did with Tech Confidential. It’s a good one.
On Wall Street, I’d consistently submit a report that would say, ‘This is going to be roadkill,’ and it would come back rewritten as ‘We see some weakness,’” Blodget says. “Now I can say, ‘It’s going to be roadkill.’ That’s very satisfying.
Henry Blodget: Financial-Industry Scapegoat Reinvents Himself as Financial Reporter
Why I read Alley Insider and why I like Henry.
Things have already changed so much that this is hard for us to believe, but till just a few decades ago the largest organizations tended to be the most progressive. An ambitious kid graduating from college in 1960 wanted to work in the huge, gleaming offices of Ford, or General Electric, or NASA. Small meant small-time. Small in 1960 didn’t mean a cool little startup. It meant uncle Sid’s shoe store
Transition – Left Hand Red
I’m really digging this band from Brighton. Raw and alive.
I was in back to back meetings in NYC today. Saw great people but ate bad food.
Lauren on the other hand made me jealous with this tweet.
There is nothing wrong with humans
I take a look at Techmeme once a day. Usually that’s all it is but sometimes I’ll check it out again later in the day. Especially if I see something breaking on Twitter.
Lots of folks have speculated how Techmeme actually worked under the hood. The claim has always been that it is 100% automated. Sometimes I wondered about that since you would occasionally find stories on Techmeme that didn’t have any supporting posts below the anchor.
In any event, today Techmeme announced they are going to have human editors in addition to the automated system.
Few thoughts:
-Too many people are constantly trying to game Techmeme or write to Techmeme. Human editors should be able to help fix/reduce that one.
-Techmeme sources seem to be a bit limited these days. I’m seeing more and more “corporate blogs” (my least favorite) and large mainstream media dominate techmeme. I’d like to see their human editors now find new sources from Twitter updates or lesser blogs or comments or maybe even videos. I’ve also seen some individual blogs break a new story but the larger blogs get the anchor post instead of the other way around.
-And best of all, I like humans :) Take for example the Tumblr Explore page. It’s a page that presents the most interesting things happening across the Tumblr network and updates several times a day. There are a few automated variables that determine which posts make it to the Explore page but there is also a human element to it as well. As a result the Explore page is filled with a fantastic & diverse collection of photos, audio, video, quotes and text posts. I know David Karp wants to do more with the Explore page but even in it’s current state it’s my default home page in Firefox.
I’m looking forward to the new Techmeme.
Sawdust Man – Ben Kweller at Terminal 5
I posted this song about a month ago from Ben’s recent EP. The track is fantastic but live is so much better.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)