Boxee has launched the next version of their incredibly popular platform, Boxee Beta. At their packed unveiling event today in New York, Boxee showed off the brand new user-interface and released details on the Boxee Box, built by D-Link. The Boxee Beta will be available to some early access users, but should be available to the public on January 7th at the upcoming CES event.

Boxee has proven itself to be one of the most popular closed alpha applications. It started as a flavor of XBMC only on the Mac. Since then, it’s made its way to the AppleTV, and has added support for Hulu and so many other online media sources. The only real problem with Boxee thus far more »

Boxee is a new application for the Mac that is much like Front Row, only better—in theory. It is an open source effort, meaning that plug-ins can be added and it can be modified by others besides the developers. It is currently in a private alpha stage, and I just so happen to be a private alpha member, and I figured I should bring a preview to you.