The interesting thing about Boxee is the way it combines the social networking of a Twitter with the power of a browser like Firefox to funnel internet content recommended by friends to your television screen. As it does so, it bypasses aggregators like Hulu that seek to make money from inserting advertising slots into content downloaded from their sites. Your correspondent thinks Boxee will be one of the most disruptive things to happen to television in ages—and not before time.
Source: economist.com
