New boxee alpha brings Pandora, XUL-browsing and an API

At the boxee meet-up in NYC tonight, the team is unveiling a new bleeding-edge alpha that adds lots and lots of cool stuff to my personal favorite media center solution.

The latest release, which should be available as you read this (or very shortly thereafter), brings:

• Pandora support
• A new boxee API
• A new XUL-based browser to get around the Hulu nastiness
• A PBS App Box app from BoxeeHQ
• Support for RadioTime, which allows users to stream 100,000 radio stations from around the world

The API has great potential for future plugins and implementations and I'm really excited about the new XUL-based browser. Because XUL is what all Mozilla based browsers use, discriminating against boxee users will be decidedly more difficult (if not impossible) for Hulu and other services that insist on driving users away from legally obtainable content.

Boxee is available for Mac OS X, Apple TV, Ubuntu and is in private alpha for Windows.