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There’s still a lot of confusion about the best way to combine social media and Internet video services with the traditional television experience. The Boxee Box is an Internet-enabled multimedia jukebox that offers one way to interact with websites that were originally designed for computer users (such as Facebook and Twitter): a QWERTY keyboard is built into the back of the remote control.
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