GetGlue: Check-in to tv, movies and music. Home | Viggle. IntoNOW. Zeebox: Your TV sidekick. Pandora. Welcome to Flickr! WordPress.com. Gmail. LinkedIn. 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. Our own research suggests that there were around 3,000 tweets with the hashtag #scousewives, half of them around the final episode of the desperate series. That in itself is hardly evidence of a high level of audience engagement. There are clearly those that wish to interact with television in this way. Mediaweek reports that the Sky Media sales house will sell sponsored mentions and links. Zeebox boss says smart TV is a dumb idea. These days you can barely move for smart television sets, as every TV manufacturer tries to wow us by producing the snazziest, most-connected screens on the market. But even so, not everyone is a fan. Some program makers are cutting their support for smart platforms — and now other industry insiders are turning on it too.
“When smart TVs came out I was really quite enthused by it all,” Anthony Rose, the co-founder of hot social TV app Zeebox — and a former head of the BBC’s iPlayer project — told me over the weekend. “But that enthusiasm really has declined for me, because they have failed to embrace what technology can offer.” He thinks that making TVs ape computers by adding apps and proprietary controls and interfaces has caused a war between manufacturers and broadcasters that has “halted innovation.” “I think innovation will flourish here and that in the future your TV will be a beautiful but dumb hi-res panel that will play the content it is told to by your smartphone or tablet.” Television linked to the Web. Social TV startup Zeebox scores over $15 million from BSkyB. BeeTV integrates social TV into new apps.
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”. But it has been renamed and has just located at offices at London’s Covent Garden, where it has a staff of almost 30 (including former iPlayer engineers) and where the pair showed me an exclusive demo… What is Zeebox?
Attempting to ride both the multi-screen TV engagement trend and the increasing adoption of internet TVs, Zeebox is a real-time system for social TV viewing and for engaging deeply around those shows that depends on recognising sofa-based second screens as the place for innovation. Viewing together One of the intended uses of “infotags” is commerce. iOS App Viggle Will Pay You to Watch TV | Product News. 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. While only watching TV will take quite a while to achieve the 7,500 point threshold — it takes roughly 60 hours of continuous viewership to reach it — there are a multitude of other opportunities in which a user can receive “bonus” points. As a bonus, once Viggle has determined what show the user is watching, it provides access to Twitter reactions to the show and the opportunity for users to comment directly to Twitter or Facebook. Spock Launches Social TV in Canada.
Software gives visual representation of who’s following you online. By Stephen C. WebsterThursday, March 1, 2012 11:08 EDT A new piece of software released this week by browser-maker Mozilla does something unique: it provides a real-time visualization of who is tracking your movements online. The software is called “Collusion,” developed last year by Mozilla programmer Atul Varma, who became inspired to code the program after reading extensively about online privacy matters.
It plugs into the Firefox browser and watches as websites and ad networks drop “cookies” into the browser during normal surfing. “Each dot in the graph represents a website,” Alex Fowler, the global privacy lead at Mozilla, explained to Raw Story. While it doesn’t sound all that creepy, just wait until you see your own graph.
“Mozilla’s goal is to raise awareness of users about one part of their online experience,” Fowler explained. (H/T: PCWorld) Copyright 2012 The Raw Story Stephen C. Stephen C. 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. Sensible It's a partnership that certainly makes sense for Sky, as Emma Lloyd, Sky's director of emerging products, explains, "We know that millions of our customers have smartphones and tablets and regularly use them to engage with Sky on mobile devices, so [the integration of Zeebox] is a natural next step for us. " The new way to watch television. 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).
Here’s the resulting map generated around the #shameless tag – it gives an impression of folk who tend to be followed by folk using the #shameless tag: Like this: Like Loading... 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. Second screen is making waves in the broadcast, social media and video worlds. In essence, second screen involves using a second display device, like a smartphone, laptop or tablet, while watching television. Many people are now second screening: research by Nielsen found that 70% of tablet users and 68% of smartphone owners used their device while watching television. “There are a lot of stats that show that a very large percentage of people who watch TV are doing it with a second screen on their lap,” says Chuck Parker, former Chief Commercial Officer of Technicolor. Social TV is a second screen activity. Many see the tablet as the perfect form factor for second screen usage. 10 Ways Facebook Is Integrating Into Your TV, Music, Games, Cars & Cameras. 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. From just January to September 2011,it saw an 800% increase. GetGlue is a service that lets users "check-in" to watching TV shows, reading books and listening to music. In 2011, it added a visual stream, real-time convos and personalized guides to shows, movies and artists. GetGlue users openly share their feelings about entertainment, especially when it comes to popular shows and movies. At this year's CES, we looked at how web connectivity, time-shifting content and "second screens" will affect social TV. ConnecTV Prepares To Take On IntoNow With New Social TV Platform.
Today, a company called ConnecTV is launching an ambitious new service for socializing the TV viewing experience using mobile and web-based applications. The new app, available first on the iPad, with Android tablet support in the works, is similar to competitor IntoNow in that it also seems to “hear” what’s on TV in order to load the appropriate content. But the way it’s processing the data on the backend is completely different. There’s no “Shazam-like” experience here – everything ConnecTV does is in real-time. ConnecTV was founded a couple of years ago by the former TV Guide President Ian Aaron, the former founding head of technology at TiVo, Alan Moskowitz, and the original Chief Programming Officer at TiVo, Stacy Jolna.
The proprietary technology underlying the service was developed over the course of the past two years, with no venture funding. Another unique aspect to ConnecTV is its technology. “Everything we do is in real-time,” he says. Can Social Media make a difference? - 67tallchris's posterous. Social Empire. How to Attract New Shareholders Part 1: Using Empire Avenue to its Full Potential « Social Currency.
Some of the game mechanics employed by the Empire Avenue staff seem to shout at you without actually telling you anything. Many facets of the interface are a mystery to large numbers of users and this adds an unnecessary layer of confusion to what is already a reasonably complex game. All of these features are useful in some way even if their purpose isn’t apparent upon your first glance. This guide will break down a few of the things that you can do to pique the interest of prospective shareholders.
I will break down some of the profile mechanics and how-to’s. Part 2 will direct you toward some great off-site resources, and offer a few tips as shared by other members of #SocialEmpire. The first Pro Tip is global and applies to everything that I touch on: Always, always, ALWAYS talk about yourself and NOT your stock. You want to promote yourself, not sell yourself! Your moment of Zen: “Be interested, not interesting.” Profile Interests Pro Tip: Go nuts. Influencer Advertising Communities. Back in MY Day… « Social Currency. This is something that started in the #SocialEmpire Facebook Group but I thought it would be cool to expand to a wider audience.
Share your initial thoughts and observations about what Empire Avenue was like when you first joined in the comments below! Mine (12/8/2010): (e)ADRIEL was the only person with a share price above 100e(e)JOSH had *only* 15mm eaves, 2nd was like 8mmDividends over .30/share were the “hot” stocksIt was EXTREMELY rare to see more than 5-10 newbies per DAYYou could only buy 50 shares in newbies to prevent inflationNo Indexes, chat, FB app, stats, advisors, or daily activity infoSelling someone was major dramaCommunities were the only place to hang out, first and only 100+ shout thread about people riding on my shoulders (lol!)
Like this: Like Loading... Social Currency. Social. Connected TV. Television. Social TV. Dipity: Charmaine Zoe's Timelines. Charmaine Zoe on Pinterest. Charmaine Zoe on KickStarter. Acteurs et initiatives. Social TV articles. Social Tv. Social TV Applications. Social TV and Radio. Business is Business. Advertising. Ovation.tv. Apps. Second Screen. The Internet Is Changing Our Understanding of Television - Eric Spiegelman - Voices. People seem really intent these days on fusing television with the Internet. On one level this makes no sense. Television technology works just fine and we all understand how to use it.
We’re also in the midst of a golden age when it comes to programming; I can’t remember another time when there were this many good shows on. Also, television advertising rates are enormous compared to the Internet. There are people on YouTube who have more subscribers than top network sitcoms have viewers, yet they earn a minuscule fraction of the revenue. On another level, however, I understand the motivation.
So there is the scent of blood in the water, and out of the resulting frenzy a few lessons have appeared. There doesn’t have to be a difference between a “channel” and a “show.” You probably have a clear understanding about what a television channel is. But if you have a conversation about YouTube channels with this concept of a “channel” in your head you may experience some cognitive dissonance.