The program previously known as Democracy has been renamed to Miro. Miro is an internet TV platform that effectively lets you subscribe to video podcasts and video feeds, including YouTube videos, and it’ll download them as they become available. It’ll automatically expire videos you’ve seen unless you tell it to keep it.

The Windows version runs on XUL, as it was the easiest platform to make a GUI because the developers disliked the Windows native style. However, the Linux version uses GTK and Mac OSX version uses Cocoa.

Miro is free and open source, and has a neat Miro Guide to help you find some channels, there are 1,611 feeds available and growing (yesterday it was around the 1,500 mark). My picks are Rocketboom, Jetset, Diggnation and DL.TV.

• Get Miro (formerly Democracy Player)

By the way, the Participatory Culture Foundation (who make Miro) have a $500 reward for anyone that can get Miro to compile with GNU tools on Windows. At the moment, it depends on Visual Studio 2003 because of Python. Check it out.