THE HOME OF SOCIAL TV Home Charts Leaderboard Second Screen Apps Research TV Jobs Events About Popular : now The new second screen generation in a single photo Social TV investment not matching opportunity Posted by Cory Bergman on March 30, 2012 Tweet We’ve been reporting the latest social TV investment and acquisition activity stories as they’re announced , and Sharp TV’s Anne-Marie Roussel has compiled a table that lists them all together . While it looks like a lot of activity and we’re seeing a lot more this year it prompted All Things D’s Peter Kafka to proclaim The social TV gold rush is smaller than you think . 8221 He : writes It actually strikes me as fairly modest . Even if you assume that most of this stuff fizzles , it seems like the chance to create a next-generation TV Guide
ESPN.com is rolling out the ability for users to connect their Facebook accounts and automatically share what they're reading with their friends. ESPN joins a handful of TV brands that have made the move to "frictionless sharing" including msnbc.com, TODAY.com, The Daily Show, MTV News and the largest CBS station sites. 
We all know that kids thrive on mobile devices and love to multitask in front of TV, but sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Scott Macklin, associate director at the awesome MCDM program at the University of Washington, shared with me this photo of his son, Case, and his friends watching the Super Bowl...
We're less than a week away from the Social TV Summit in San Francisco, and Lost Remote readers can get discounted tickets right here. Newly confirmed to the lineup, Reddit GM Erik Martin will be interviewed by CNN correspondent Dan Simon about Reddit's role in the SOPA debate. "Erik and Reddit.com led the internet's protest against the recent attempted SOPA legislation and started the blackout on the net," explains Social TV Summit's Andy Batkin.
THE HOME OF SOCIAL TV Home Charts Leaderboard Second Screen Apps Research TV Jobs Events About Popular : now The new second screen generation in a single photo Chyron debuts platform for social TV and second screen Posted by Cory Bergman on March 28, 2012 Tweet Get ready for more social media integration on air , especially in local TV . Chyron is a staple in the TV industry for generating on-screen graphics , and today the company announced Engage , 8221 its platform for integrating second screen , social media , and social TV data into live TV broadcasts . By building these technologies into the TV production workflow , Engage gives artists and producers the means to take content such as Twitter feeds , polls , text messages , and other viewer-generated data to air within their live
As promised, Xbox has rolled out three big content partners, beefing up its role as a big television player in the living room. Starting today, HBO Go (for participating providers), Xfinity and MLB (for subscribers) are debuting on Xbox Live, adding to Netflix, Hulu, ESPN and many more. And marking today's announcement, Xbox said more people are now using the console for entertainment purposes (TV, movies and music) than gaming.
Television made a big showing Monday night at the 2012 Shorty Awards, hosted by Samantha Bee and Jason Jones from The Daily Show. The annual event rewards the best producers of short-form content in social media, and TV is playing a larger role every year.
Here are the TV-related winners...
THE HOME OF SOCIAL TV Home Charts Leaderboard Second Screen Apps Research TV Jobs Events About Popular : now The new second screen generation in a single photo Is social media distracting for shows like Mad Men Posted by Cory Bergman on March 26, 2012 Tweet Last night’s season premiere of Mad Men attracted a surge of social activity : 106K social comments on Bluefin Labs and an activity score of 218K on Trendrr winning the night on cable TV . Unlike most shows that score big on the social TV charts Mad Men is a scripted drama , not a reality TV show or live event . For example , the highly-promoted NBC premiere of Smash drew 52K social comments , compared to 106K for Mad Men , according to Bluefin . stats That distinction wasn’t lost on Mad Men fan John Herrman , who wrote a rather
Two big-name entrepreneurs, Sean Parker (Napster, Facebook, Causes) and Shawn Fanning (Napster, Path) are teaming up to create Airtime, a social video company. "Our small team shares a passion for using the latest video technology to bring people together," explains the new site, which just popped up with a graphic of a video control room and a button to apply for early access. There's no word on when it may launch.