Comments on: Still watching the TV?

By: Huffington Post: I know you watch TV News and I know you like it › The Ayman and Naaman Show

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:14:34 +0000

[...] I don’t actually read the Huffington Post all too often. Usually, I follow it and other reporting agencies like it through social network streams like Facebook or Twitter. If you know me already, you know I have issues the use of the term social there, but it’s time we paid it some due attention. Social streams let us know what our friends want to share (and converse with us…yes Naaman, I still say social media is about conversation). Additionally, we can also follow trusted sources, celebrities, or agencies we want specific news from. I personally enjoy this filtration, which accounts for probably 40% of my news consumption; the rest comes from TV and general news (paper or web) reading/viewing. TV and videos themselves are highly social activities—weather we watch them together or just ask our friends if they saw it later. This is what lead me to create Zync for Yahoo! Messenger and what leads others to create similar technologies. [...]

By: George

George — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:12:12 +0000

tvChatter is available on the app store now. Wahoo!

By: Yoel Crane

Yoel Crane — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:01:16 +0000

Frank, we’ll let the world know about our status in the store via twitter. Please follow us at http://www.twitter.com/tvchatterapp

Thanks,
Yoel

By: Frank Bridges

Frank Bridges — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:57:43 +0000

Yoel – LOL! – EVERYONE’S reading The Ayman and Naaman Show! If you got the data on TV watchers I won’t debate it – I’ve always been a bit of an outlier, so that might explain my view. Glad to hear about the non-live abilities. As I said – that’s WAY cool! If you have a mailing list, put me on it, because I would like to check it out when it hits the App Store. Again, I think this could be a powerful group mechanism as Mor was asking for in an earlier post.

Thanks!

By: Yoel Crane

Yoel Crane — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:46:35 +0000

Thanks for the mention.

Frank, the app is optimized for the primetime airing of a show. Our research shows that a majority of US TV watchers watch live TV and cable broadcasts. The app also has high value while watching a show time-shifted or recorded, like yourself. You can watch a show via AppleTV/Boxee, Hulu, or Netflix and coordinate the viewing with the people you follow on Twitter. Turn on the friend filter in tvChatter and you now have a tvChatter viewing party.

- Yoel, tvChatter Product Manager

By: Frank Bridges

Frank Bridges — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:17:08 +0000

I didn’t put 2 & 2 together here – I think that the tvChatter would be WAY cool if it had an ability to encourage people to have “view ups” where they could watch a pre-recorded video at the same time and run comments with the tvChatter. Maybe there could be a syncing feature, and others could come in later and hop right to it. I think this could develop a more together-while-alone scene – maybe this is what Mor was saying with dynamic and effective groups?

ALSO, Boxee does something like this with their social networking feature that encourages discussion around TV/movies. They also have infiltrated Facebook with an app for photo sharing. AND, Hulu has a Facebook app, that’s kind of like tvChatter, but more computer oriented, versus mobile.

Now lets get to The Shore – it’s beautiful out!

By: Frank Bridges

Frank Bridges — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:20:45 +0000

Maybe it’s because I’ve just watched three episodes of Mad Men – via Netlix – that I felt the tvChatter video was selling me WAY to hard, which just made me question what they were selling in the first place. TV is dying, and it’s not going to get any better – though the sports events from EG-G is a good point. We’re an All-American family over here with 2.x of kids and we don’t have cable TV. We haven’t had it for about four months and don’t miss it all. We either watch shows on the computer, through AppleTV/Boxee or DVDs from Netflix.

By: Elizabeth Gough-Gordon

Elizabeth Gough-Gordon — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:43:13 +0000

There are certain types of tv programs that work very well with an interactive platform- Katz and Dayan’s “media events,” but also televised sports. Watch the #mlb tag on Twitter during the baseball playoffs for this in action!

By: ayman

ayman — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:33:25 +0000

@infomor vs. @mor this Sunday at the New Jersey Shoreline! Be there and be sure to tweet your reactions!

By: naaman

naaman — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:25:04 +0000

Hey Ayman, didn’t you hear? I’m an informer now. And I have channels but no TV.

I like these trends. Headline: “TV to bring back community!”.

Also, Twitter, the nation craves groups. Dynamic, effective, group mechanisms for Twitter.