As the summer shapes up to be a second-screen showdown, Yahoo's IntoNow just pushed a new update to iPhone and iPad with a "rebuilt and re-designed" app. Calling it the "next evolution of IntoNow," the team said it rebuilt the app around what its users do. It also add three nifty new features -- some borrowed from other apps -- that beef up IntoNow's offerings.
THE HOME OF SOCIAL TV Home Charts Companies Leaderboard Second Screen Apps Gaming Research TV Jobs Events About Popular : now 10 things you need to know about the future of TV Social TV growing fast in Australia infographic Posted by Natan Edelsburg on July 31, 2012 Social TV continues to become a global phenomenon . Back in December , Loyalize since acquired by Viggle launched a partnership with Yahoo 7 in Australia to create FANGO , a social TV app that includes check-in and polling capabilities for the country’s TV market . Today FANGO is announcing 500,000 app downloads and over one million check-ins for their platform as social TV grows in . Australia FANGO , which can be found on Yahoo Australia has no relation to the Yahoo owned IntoNow The company also released some interesting
The second-screen loyalty app Viggle announced today that it's now encouraging developers to build their own custom TV experiences on the Viggle platform. For example, a show producer could enhance the second-screen experience with polls, prediction cards, mood-o-meters, trivia and quizzes. Or a network could create a game that rewards users with the same redeemable points viewers receive while using the Viggle app. 
There are endless moving parts when it comes to pulling off such a massive broadcast like the Olympics. For all the questionable programming decisions that's causing some anger on Twitter, you have to hand it to NBC for successfully delivering endless amounts of media deliverables to their paid advertisers...
: THE HOME OF SOCIAL TV Home Charts Companies Leaderboard Second Screen Apps Gaming Research TV Jobs Events About Popular : now 10 things you need to know about the future of TV Twitter exec : What TV and social will learn from the Olympics Posted by Cory Bergman on July 29, 2012 Twitter’s brand new head of TV , Fred Graver wrote a blog post on Sunday which he clearly labeled as his own opinions about some of the lessons he expects will come out of the 2012 Olympics for both TV and social media . As we all know , this is the first social media Olympics , 8221 and along with it comes one of the biggest struggles in social TV : the time delay . I’ve excerpted several of Graves’ remarks here , but please check out his post You can’t stop it , so embrace : it The Olympics are an intense
THE HOME OF SOCIAL TV Home Charts Companies Leaderboard Second Screen Apps Gaming Research TV Jobs Events About Popular : now 10 things you need to know about the future of TV NBC Olympics Twitter Tracker measures real-time pulse’ Posted by Natan Edelsburg on July 29, 2012 A big part of the recent Twitter-NBC Olympics partnership was that they would be bringing back the Twitter Tracker they used back in 2008, but in a bigger way on devices . The tracker can be accessed within the NBC Olympics iPad app and it’s proving to be one of the best ways to discover what games are worth watching at the moment , and here’s . why The tracker , which can also be accessed on the regular web via NBCOlympics.com twitter-tracker is powered by Austin-based Mass Relevance and includes the following :
The social Olympics kicked off yesterday with a dazzling Opening Ceremony that attracted 5 million social media comments, according to analysis by Bluefin Labs. In fact, 94.2% of all social TV comments in primetime (7 p.m. to midnight ET) were about the Opening Ceremony. Perhaps amazingly, this did not set any records, but it did rank in the top five, according to Bluefin:
THE HOME OF SOCIAL TV Home Charts Companies Leaderboard Second Screen Apps Gaming Research TV Jobs Events About Popular : now 10 things you need to know about the future of TV Watchitoo debuts device to bring web streams to live TV Posted by Natan Edelsburg on July 27, 2012 Streaming company Watchitoo which powered the Social TV Summit stream has launched a device to make it easier for producers to bring multiple live web streams straight to TV . The Watchitoo Channel Encoder 1000 is a server hardware combination that can turn a web video stream into an HDTV-quality product by treating it like an in-studio camera feed , 8221 the company explains TV producers are increasingly relying on live streams usually via Skype to book guests from around the world with minimal set-up . In the old days
Amazing how quickly the television space is changing. As Google unveiled its new one-gigabit-per-second fiber service in Kansas City today, it made a surprise announcement: residents will be able to sign up for a new Google Fiber TV service with a respectable list of channels out of the gate, tablet viewing, searchable programming, a HD DVR (up to 500 hours and 8 shows at once) and a free Google Nexus tablet thrown in to use as a remote control.
AdWeek is citing unnamed sources with a report that Twitter is talking with Hollywood producers and network execs about launching original, in-stream video shows on Twitter itself. The first effort -- described as a MTV-like reality show -- could launch by the end of the year. Explains AdWeek:
Plextor have announced the newest series of Solid State Drives (M5S) which have been designed to provide an easy, effortless solution for users looking to make their first switch from HDD to SDD. Building on the trend set by its...