Lines snaked around the outside of Webster Hall last night as crowds gathered in droves for the highly anticipated Boxee New York Event. Soaring above the 600 mark, the attendance surprised even the Boxee team, as enthusiasts from all walks of life arrived to see what Boxee had on tap. They did a great job with organization, and encouragement of networking by requesting that attendees write both their real names and their @twitter identities on nametags upon entry. The event kicked off with some background on Boxee and quickly moved along to the new features that are now available under the updated Alpha version:

• Elegantly integrated Pandora functionality - everything you love about Pandora, all a click away in Boxee’s interface.
• Radio Time is a new app that provides radio access to 100,000+ stations worldwide. Presets are supported via your radiotime.com account, and it uses your location data to scan for local stations in your area.
• PBS video content is now viewable via Boxee app, which was reported to have also become available today. For more details, check out boxeehq
• Hulu fix (for now) using their new Mozilla-based Boxee browser, which loads the full HTML page, and then detects the video stream, and goes into full screen as playback starts.
• The team also reminded developers that they have expanded their API, and that Boxee apps can be built using XML with Python.

Representatives from various content providers, including Pandora and blip.tv spoke about their products’ Boxee integrations. And finally, upcoming various Beta functionality was mentioned, such as cross content media searching, filtering abilities, and user experience tweaks, but no promises were made as far as when the beta would become available. This event was also broadcasted live for viewing on, you guessed it, Boxee.