Social TV
by on 29/07/2010In the news yesterday, a funding announcement for Philo, a social TV experience. Here’s a succinct description of Social TV from Technology Review.
“A central database aggregates video from online sources like YouTube, shares user-specific data with social networks, delivers video to the user’s TV, and lets users and the people in their networks send comments and rating back and forth via an iPhone app.
It avoids using the TV screen for messages, something has proven irritating to consumers who don’t want clunky text obscuring pictures on their 52″ HDTVs. The app also allows the user to tell the network what program to show on his or her set. For instance if a friend suggests a show and the owner agrees, that show will pop up at the appointed time.”
Personally, it sounds like “MediaDancer” a concept developed by Calero Media Systems in 2007.
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