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iOS App Viggle Will Pay You to Watch TV | Product News | The Mac Observer
A new app for iOS pays you to watch television. Viggle , released Wednesday on the App Store, is one of the first “loyalty programs,” as the company calls it, for TV. Viggle works by using an iOS device’s microphone to hear what you’re watching, including both live and DVR-recorded shows. It then matches that waveform to a particular channel and show and credits you a certain number of “points” per minute for watching. Once a user has received 7,500 points they can exchange them for $5 gift certificates from retailers like Starbucks, Best Buy, and iTunes.
We’re only in week two of 2012 and another social TV startup has just received a huge amount of investment from a major media company. Zeebox, yet to launch in the US , received over $15 million from News Corp controlled BSkyB, the largest pay-TV broadcaster in the UK with over 10 million customers. As Paid Content points out , “The funding means Zeebox has a triple-digit million valuation after just two months of live operation, and without yet having executed a monetization strategy.” Zeebox claims to have attracted 250,000 users so far — a user base that Miso CEO Somrat Niyogi also stated when the company recently launched SideShows in New York . Hopefully, this new round of money will help expedite the company’s launch in the US where the market is a lot more mature, in the sense that there are tens of different second screen social options for TV.
Social TV startup Zeebox scores over $15 million from BSkyB
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First Football Endzone Hashtag Touches Down in Mississippi
The ol’ endzone dance just got even more social. When players in this Saturday’s Battle for the Golden Egg — the annual college football clash between Mississippi State and the University of Mississippi — celebrate after scoring a touchdown, they’ll be doing so on top of a massive Twitter hashtag. In what’s believed to be a first for college football programs, Mississippi State has painted #HAILSTATE — the school’s traditional rallying cry and fight song — in its north endzone. College teams typically decorate endzones with the title of their school, mascot nickname or a colorful pattern. But Mississippi State’s Twitter-based variation has already created buzz in the sports world. “It’s a phenomenal idea,” Dallas Mavericks owner and Broadcast.com founder Mark Cuban said in an email to Mashable.Domino’s Pizza has found a novel way to engage iPad users and maybe sell a few more pizzas along the way. The pizza chain has created an app that lets you make a pizza onscreen and then order it in real life. Domino’s Pizza Hero is a game/app that simulates the experience of kneading dough, spreading sauce, sprinkling cheese, placing toppings and cutting slices all while a timer ticks away.
Domino's Lets You Make a Pizza On Your iPad and Then Order it in Real Life
[Exclu] MyTF1.fr invente le Tweet Replay | FrenchWeb.fr
Le concept de Tweet Replay est à la fois simple et lumineux : visionner le replay d’une émission à travers les tweets relatifs à cette émission postés pendant le live. MyTF1.fr propose ce matin une toute première expérience autour du replay de la finale de « Danse avec les stars » diffusée ce week-end. Tous les tweets publiés pendant l’émission avec le hashtag #DALS sont associés à ce qui se passait à l’antenne à l’instant même de leur publication et permettent ainsi d’avoir accés, en replay quasi instantané, à la séquence commentée. Avec la lancement du Tweet Replay, MyTFI.fr propose donc une nouvelle expérience de Social TV qui s’inscrit dans sa nouvelle stratégie 360 lancée en septembre et dans la perspective évidente de la TV connectée.
Publications Sundance Channel Debuts TV Show on Twitter, Hulu... and Then TV. 11/17/2011
When Sundance Channel premieres the first episode of the second season of Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys on PerezHilton.com today, it’ll be a full 24 hours before the on-air debut of the show on Nov. 18. What’s more, the blogger’s unveiling of the show follows a Twitter premiere earlier in the week, as well as a Hulu debut of the episode. The Twitter debut marked one of the first time a network has leveraged the social platform to bow a show, and while the Twitter-cast only generated 2,000 views, it’s a start to using social video to drive early buzz in a TV show.NCIS, Idol Top TVGuide.com's List of the Most Social Shows - Today's News: Our Take | TVGuide.com
Pauley Perrette and Mark Harmon Social network discussions about television shows drove more live viewing and second-screen engagement during the 2010-2011 television season, according to a TVGuide.com user research study that ranks the year's top 10 most social shows. Twenty percent of respondents said they are now watching more live TV to avoid plot and reality "spoilers" that may be revealed in real time by members of their social networks.
Revealed: How Anthony Rose Plans To Revolutionise TV | paidContent:UK
I have seen the future of TV and it is called “Zeebox”. The next project from Anthony Rose, the technologist who built KaZaA and BBC iPlayer in to some of the most disruptive digital media plays, is due to go live in October. Topped by Peoplesound founder and ex EMI SVP Ernesto Schmitt as CEO, the pair’s startup raised $5 million in seed funds from unidentified investors in June and has been operating in stealth as “tBone”.
Spock Launches Social TV in Canada
TELUS has teamed up with Canadian Star Trek Icon Leonard Nimoy (Spock) in an innovative marketing campaign that announces Facebook on Optik TV as “The Next Frontier of Social Networking” in order to promote the launch of a bold new TV app, TELUS, a national telecommunications giant in Canada that provides a wide range of communications products and services including data, Internet protocol (IP), voice, entertainment, video, IP and satellite TV, has launched a new single screen TV App that allows one to interact with Facebook on a TV without missing a the program.Having a problem ? Want to make a comment ? Do you have an idea for new feature that would make watching TV even better? if so, we'd love to hear your thoughts.
Apps - The smarter, social way to discover and watch TV
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The Digital TV Group (DTG) is the industry association for digital television in the UK.Yahoo et la Social TV
Le géant américain vient d'annoncer l'acquisition d'IntoNow, une jeune société qui vient de développer une application mobile de reconnaissance et partage de programmes TV. Le groupe Américain Yahoo, qui vient d'abandonner plusieurs de ses services (comme Yahoo Buzz ), semble se tourner vers la "télévision sociale" en rachetant une jeune société développant une application mobile permettant de communiquer à ses proches ce que l'on regarde.Taxi partage est l'application qu'il faut pour économiser quand vous prenez un taxi, gagner du temps lors des files d'attente de taxi et protéger l'environnement en même temps