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Pizza On Demand (POD) order from Papa Johns and/or Dominos online via Boxee
Pizza On Demand (POD) order from Papa Johns and/or Dominos online via Boxee.
Add a python script for Boxee that is similar to nitoTV's Pizza On Demand (POD) for hacked Apple TV to be able to order pizza home delivery via Boxee's GUI (with tracker) if have pre-existing registered accounts on Papa Johns and/or Dominos online (though I personally prefer Pizza Hut), perhaps even learn from the from Pizza On Demand (POD) code:
http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/NitoTV...
TiVo recently announced the addon to order Dominos Pizza directly from their set-top-box:
http://www.tivo.com/abouttivo/pressro...
Neuros Technology has even offered a $500 bounty for someone to write a addon script to be able to order pizza via their OSD set-top-box:
http://open.neurostechnology.com/cont...
Some additional API information:
http://hackedgadgets.com/2008/06/09/o...
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips/200...
http://gizmodo.com/5091434/all-giz-wa...
Boxee Community Forum Discussions:
http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?...
http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?...
PS! Off-topic but semi-related checkout Slice NY Pizza Map (New York Pizza Places on Google Maps):
http://www.programmableweb.com/mashup...
and
http://www.programmableweb.com/mashup...
Add a python script for Boxee that is similar to nitoTV's Pizza On Demand (POD) for hacked Apple TV to be able to order pizza home delivery via Boxee's GUI (with tracker) if have pre-existing registered accounts on Papa Johns and/or Dominos online (though I personally prefer Pizza Hut), perhaps even learn from the from Pizza On Demand (POD) code:
http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/NitoTV...
TiVo recently announced the addon to order Dominos Pizza directly from their set-top-box:
http://www.tivo.com/abouttivo/pressro...
Neuros Technology has even offered a $500 bounty for someone to write a addon script to be able to order pizza via their OSD set-top-box:
http://open.neurostechnology.com/cont...
Some additional API information:
http://hackedgadgets.com/2008/06/09/o...
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips/200...
http://gizmodo.com/5091434/all-giz-wa...
Boxee Community Forum Discussions:
http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?...
http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?...
PS! Off-topic but semi-related checkout Slice NY Pizza Map (New York Pizza Places on Google Maps):
http://www.programmableweb.com/mashup...
and
http://www.programmableweb.com/mashup...
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The company has not planned to implement this.
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Inappropriate?I only wish that such a thing would work with my favorite local pizza places :D
I’m wishing I was a tech-guru
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Inappropriate?At some point, though, after you start adding features like this Boxee becomes WebTV. The point of a home media operating system is to allow for passive viewing from the couch of long-form content, and interactive shopping is better suited for web browsers running on Macs and PCs. However, to get the kinds of licensing deals Boxee is seeking, there will need to be some "shopping" component to allow consumers to purchase content (i.e. iTunes store). -
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this is one of the best points
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Inappropriate?papa johns and dominos make crappy pizza. I wouldnt even want to see the option on boxee1 Comment Add a comment
This is one of the best points
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...that is only your personal opinion though, (an opinion that I personally agree with though by the way as I am a Pizza Hut fan, love their papparoni pizzas), however the fact it that people in general still buy their pizza as otherwise they would be out of business,
...but the real reason that I listed Papa John and Domino is they already offer home delivery and online ordering with available API that Boxee can use to implement a proof of concept without having to contact them before they can prove that it works and that people will use it from within Boxee. Once a real proof of concept is available they/you can reuse that code to add additional online food companies that offer home delivery much easier from a unified section in the Boxee GUI than having to add every single company from scratch in different ways. -
Inappropriate?These huge "pizza" companies don't need any additional help selling their terrible product. This would only contribute to pulling more business away from real local pizza places that are often already struggling to compete with these horrible giants.1 Comment Add a comment
This is one of the best points
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That is totally beside the point and a such discussion does not belong in the feature request,
...in any case, I am sure that if Boxee provide this feature in a plugin API manor for the big companies who offer food online ordering and home delivery then almost anyone with a little Python programming language will be able to relatively easily modify those plugins to add additional sources, including your smaller local pizza places as long as they provide a website for ordering, (as such plugins for your local pizza places is nothing that Boxee themselves will be able to maintain but instead have to reply on the community provide as long as Boxee provide the framework to build upon, Boxee can only provide the plugin API and some example plugins and the rest you will have to do yourself, open source style). -
Inappropriate?What are you the director of marketing for Papa Johns? If it's a plugin... fine. but i would NEVER want to see this included in Boxee. Let's focus on media and not another contribution to American obesity by the ability to order terrible food without getting off your rear end.
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Inappropriate?For goodness sake people, there is no "I DON'T LIKE THIS IDEA" button, just move on if you don't like an idea. Is it really worth your energy to reply?
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Inappropriate?will take a long time before we get to implement the pizza feature. personally i'll go for Chinese before Pizza, but we'll let the users decide
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Inappropriate?I agree, the ability to do this on TiVo is pretty neat, but the pizza is pretty bad and this is hardly an important feature.
I’m dumbfounded...
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Inappropriate?the cool thing about it, is it would be easy to implement. Most Chinese restaurants don't have online web ordering systems, and aren't built into tivo. And when you have people over, and you are watching a movie, ordering a pizza online would save me a lot of time. On the phone, you have to get everyone's input, and it is a hassle.
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