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RobSpectre
October 13th, 2009, 01:43 PM
I am dead excited to announce the latest Gonzee app, one I think is a real game-changer in the living room. Cliqset v1.0 is now available in the App Box to bring the first real-time social experience to your living room.

1) What is Cliqset?

Cliqset is a real-time social media service that unifies your many online identities in one gorgeous interface. TechCrunch has likened the service to “FriendFeed on steroids,” aggregating more social services than anyone else with a strong emphasis on real-time, instant communication. Mashable called it “FriendFeed Done Right” with support for more of the online social web and a gorgeous interface to boot. I like to think of it more as the first real lifecasting service, finally combining online a rich aggregation of social services delivered instantly.

2) What is the Cliqset Boxee app?

One of Cliqset’s greatest strengths is its rich API, which is leveraged to bring the Cliqset experience to Boxee. With this Boxee app, users can view and interact with their Cliqset stream in real-time. Users can see all the status posts from all their friends from the comfort of the living room *and* comment on those activities in real-time. Whether users are on the web or chatting with gTalk or on their iPhones or watching Boxee on their TVs, Cliqset users can browse and comment on each others posts (in – you guessed it – real-time).

http://www.gonzee.tv/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Screenshot-BOXEE-300x157.png

3) What is “Video Chat?”

Here’s the real hot sauce. The Cliqset Boxee app has an interface for content-aware real-time discussion. You can watch any video – Internet or local – and participate in a Cliqset discussion about it. Whether it be The Matrix or The Daily Show or any of the killer apps produced by the Boxee dev community, users can chat with everyone else watching the same content in real-time. In my limited research, it is the very first content-aware television chat ever.

http://www.gonzee.tv/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/cliqsetboxee.jpg


4) How can I break me off a piece of this tasty goodness?

You can install the Cliqset app from the App Box today. You can register for Cliqset from within the app and get to real-time conversations for your favorite content in seconds.

You can read more about the app and Cliqset’s killer desktop client here:

http://www.gonzee.tv/?p=153

harkonen
October 13th, 2009, 02:50 PM
Not seeing this available in the App Box now .. did it go up and get pulled?


I am dead excited to announce the latest Gonzee app, one I think is a real game-changer in the living room. Cliqset v1.0 is now available in the App Box to bring the first real-time social experience to your living room.

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RobSpectre
October 13th, 2009, 02:53 PM
Not seeing this available in the App Box now .. did it go up and get pulled?

Ah, important point I neglected to mention - the app is only available for Mac, Linux and AppleTV.

harkonen
October 13th, 2009, 03:12 PM
Ah, important point I neglected to mention - the app is only available for Mac, Linux and AppleTV.

arrrrgh ... ok .. sadly that now makes sense....

bmoura
October 15th, 2009, 11:26 PM
arrrrgh ... ok .. sadly that now makes sense....

Thanks for asking the question. I was wondering the same thing !

nail
October 17th, 2009, 12:47 AM
Is this applicable to Facebook, Myspace, Twitter? I would love to update my status to EACH of these at the same time.

RobSpectre
October 21st, 2009, 03:53 PM
Is this applicable to Facebook, Myspace, Twitter? I would love to update my status to EACH of these at the same time.

You can set your Cliqset profile to update Facebook, Twitter, and FriendFeed with the updates that you make on Boxee.

Just check your profile settings on the Cliqset site to easily set this up.

Fuzzgtp
October 21st, 2009, 04:26 PM
Sad no windows support but this app needs integration...

RobSpectre
October 21st, 2009, 04:53 PM
Sad no windows support but this app needs integration...

Indeed it does and to that end I've put in some feature requests for the beta that I think are of interest to everyone in the dev community. I might suggest a vote for these three in particular:

Win32 Extensions (for Cliqset on Windows) - http://jira.boxee.tv/browse/BOXEE-2985
Developer access to OSD Menus (for in video integration) - http://jira.boxee.tv/browse/BOXEE-2997
Background processes (to develop the "Steam-like" behavior your described) - http://jira.boxee.tv/browse/BOXEE-2998

waymon
October 30th, 2009, 03:42 PM
I would like to see a better GUI not something that takes up that much of the screen. Something more like this.

http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=12264

RobSpectre
October 31st, 2009, 11:50 AM
This looks like a slick interface. You can hide the chat screen and only receive notifications when someone posts a message.

I'm not sure that the tiny grey text is going to be readable on screens smaller than 42".

Has anyone used this party mode on a smaller set?