Zeebox trial questions value of viewing companion
Zeebox may be attracting a lot of attention as a viewing companion, not least from Sky, having invested a reported £10 million for a 10% stake in the company, which employs 30 staff. However, the results of the first trial of the second screen application with another broadcast partner seem to suggest that just fifty users posted an average of two messages each over the two month run. Broadcast magazine reports that despite close collaboration with Channel 4 for a trial with the eight-episode series Desperate Scousewives only 100 of the 80,000 associated Twitter updates were through Zeebox.
Professor Heng Tao SHEN
Xiaofeng Zhu, Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen and Xin Zhao. "Linear Cross-Modal Hashing for Effective Multimedia Search". In Proceedings of 21st ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), pages 143-152, 2013. Jingkuan Song, Yi Yang, Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen, and Jiebo Luo.
Sky apps to go social with Zeebox integration
Netflix? What Netflix? Says Sky as it announces a partnership with Zeebox that it hopes will see Sky customers getting social as they watch TV using the Sky mobile apps. Sky is set to be the only TV platform in the UK to offer Zeebox integration in its bespoke mobile apps (including Sky+ and Sky Go), with the new 'augmented' features set to hit Sky's apps during the first half of this year. You may recall Zeebox from its launch last year – it's a social app that allows you to see what your friends are watching, find out more about TV shows that are on, chat as you watch the gogglebox and even buy products featured in programmes and adverts.
GetGlue: Check-in to tv, movies and music
Social Network for Entertainment Discover what to watch, share what you're watching with friends and fans, and get updates from your favorite shows.
Dr. Zi Helen Huang
Dr. Huang is an ARC Future Fellow in School of ITEE, The University of Queensland. She received her BSc degree from Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University, China, and her PhD in Computer Science from School of ITEE, The University of Queensland. Dr.
TV Audience Social Interest Mapping – Shameless vs. Newsnight vs Masterchef
How easy is it to differentiate between audiences of different types of TV programme based on their socially signalled interests? This evening, I ran a couple of Twitter searches against the #shameless and #newsnight hashtags. In each case, I grabbed 1500 of the most recent tweets and generated lists of folk who had tweeted the corresponding hashtag at least twice in the sample set. I then grabbed the lists of all the friends of the folk in each list to generate a projection map of the friends of recent hashtaggers. The final preprocessing step was to filter each network to contain only nodes that had at least an indegree or outdegree of 25 (that is, I filtered the network to only include folk who had at least 25 friends, or were linked to by at least 25 of the folk in the corresponding hashtaggers list).
SECOND SCREENS AND SOCIAL TV - Making waves in the broadcast world - D2D
Feb 14, 2012 - 05:05 PM GMT Second screening is the new way to consume broadcast content, with companies beginning to look at ways to control the way consumers second screen - and how to make money out of it. George Cole provides an overview of this 21st century viewing trend.
The Future Of Social TV Is Now
Social "check-in" service GetGlue waited until nearly halfway through January to release its 2011 infographics. That same day, it closed a $12M round of financing led by Rho Ventures, with participation from TimeWarner Investments, RRE Ventures and Union Square Ventures. At the end of 2011, GetGlue hit two million users and logged 100 million check-ins. The site is only two years old, yet it has grown 1000% year over year. The million user mark came in April 2011.
