Your living room television is the next new platform for developers.

And, while Apple is squandering its Apple TV lead by treating Internet television as a ‘hobby’, Boxee is opening the platform up to developers, offering an API and kicking off a developer challenge.

Boxee’s move is resulting in an explosion of content on the platform, including:

• I Can Has Cheezburger
• OpenCourseWare
• UK’s Open University
• The Weather Channel
• HotForWords
• FaceBook Photos
• The White House
• BBC Live

This is just scratching the surface, but it’s clear that Boxee has captured the new media mojo.

Boxee is becoming the iPhone of Internet television.

I’d still like to see what Apple could by opening up Apple TV – but an open and open source Boxee may end up being even better.

(Via Podcasting News.)

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