Turner Broadcasting System's truTV is bringing the social conversation to TV Everywhere, with a new feature that synchronizes select Facebook and Twitter comments about its shows with episode playback on its website.
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People are passionate about their entertainment, and the tech world is noticing, debuting slick new TV sets, streaming services and social apps. Read More
Many of us are becoming increasingly accustomed to combining our television viewing with social interaction, making entertainment less of a passive activity and engaging our community more. Read More
The strategy by which most social TV platforms exist today is based on one major flaw - all TV is appointment viewing. Read More
Over a year ago we wrote about Tweeplayer, then in beta, a technology that lets you play back tweets in sync with a TV show. Read More
An Expanded Snapshot of the Companies, Platforms and Services Surrounding Social TV. Read More
Welcome to Lost Remote's growing directory of social TV startups and a few more established companies with social TV products... Read More
Cambridge, MA - Tomorrowish, (www.tomorrowish.com) the first DVR for social media, announced today that the company has been named a finalist in MassChallenge, the world's largest startup competition. Read More
MassChallenge on Tuesday announced the 125 finalist teams - 90 of them from Massachusetts - that will take part in the third edition of its startup accelerator and competition. Read More
While the social element of television is not new, Social TV is a relatively new concept used to describe the emerging generation of television services that integrate with other communication platforms... Read More
Tomorrowish has inked a content deal with Hulu - but not with the Academy Awards, yet. The Boston-area startup provides a web-based DVR service for televised and live events... Read More
If you find it increasingly difficult to watch old episodes of The Bachelor without wishing you knew if other people on Twitter thought they, too, might've gotten a lap dance from Blakeley, then move... over to TweePLayer... Read More
We will be doing a big launch showing off new features and lots of new content on our main site, and soon we’ll get to show off some awesome content and integration for a national cable network. 2012 is going to be a big year for SocialTV and us and with all the changes we will be rebranding to focus on the bigger things we are doing in the future... Read More
One of the more popular activities while using Twitter is participating in conversations around live events or television. Desiree has uncovered an entire business model of live tweeting conferences as a Twitter MC, while Joe has immersed himself in the online baseball community... Read More
We have been getting requests to show how Tweeplayer integrates with YouTube and collecting Tweets for a higher bandwidth Twitter conversation from a broadcast event... Read More
Twitter is a terrific way of sharing information in real-time. But what if you wanted to roll back the clock to see the tweets sent during a specific conference, event, or TV show that happened hours, days, weeks, or even months before? TweePlayer offers a way to time travel via Twitter with more accuracy and control than a hashtag... Read More
Some people watch television with a bowl of popcorn at their side, while others curl up with a blanket. Others still can't turn on the tube without their smartphone, laptop or tablet in their hands so they can Tweet and read others' Tweets as the action unfolds on the big screen... Read More
Watching television shows at the time they air is so 2000s — about 40% of US households now own a DVR and another 40% regularly watch long form video online. Viewers who want to pair real-time online conversation with television, however, are still left out when it comes to television-on-demand... Read More
While Twitter is a great social layer
for live TV events, what about all the other shows you watch on Hulu, Netflix or your DVR? That's where Tweeplayer comes in — a new site that lets you play back a Twitter stream in sync with a TV show... Read More
TweePLayer, the first DVR for social media conversations, launched in closed beta at SXSW2011, and now it is available in public beta. TweePLayer syncs the contextual Twitter conversation about an event to video or audio of that event... Read More