Comcast to bring Skype video calls to TV
While an increasing number of TV manufacturers build Skype technology into their sets — some with video cameras, too — Comcast has announced it’s planning to roll out a Skype-powered video calling service for its cable subscribers. Comcast-Skype users will be able to call (video or audio) or text while they watch a TV show. [...]
‘The Glee Project’ premiere gets seriously social
Oxygen kicked off the first episode of The Glee Project on Sunday night with enough social TV integration to make even the most die-hard Gleek busy. As with a handful of other Oxygen shows, The Glee Project was featured on Oxygen’s social chat experience. Contestant Damian McGinty chatted along with fans on OxygenLive.com and the [...]
Oxygen, Spike TV to feature ‘Shazamable moments’
Last month NBC Universal announced a deal to integrate Shazam into several of its cable networks, and over the next few days, you’ll start seeing Shazam prompts on the air. Shazam is a mobile app that listen and identifies songs, but it’s increasingly pushing into TV. When the Shazam prompts appears on air, viewers with [...]
CNN to tap social media, QR code in live debate
CNN and local partners WMUR and New Hampshire Union Leader are holding a Republican presidential primary debate on Monday, and CNN is pulling out the social stops to let “voters play a starring role.” During the debate, users will be able to pose questions on moderator John King’s Facebook page, Twitter using the hashtag #CNNdebate, [...]
TV station execs urged to invest more in social media
Hundreds of representatives from TV stations across the country gathered in Las Vegas this week for the first-ever Promax Station Summit. I held a social media session showing many success stories we’ve covered on Lost Remote, and Facebook’s Andy Mitchell followed in a session offering tips and tools for TV stations to step up their [...]
ABC News publishes digital Osama bin Laden book
ABC News is out with a digital book about the death of Osama bin Laden. “TARGET: Bin Laden – The Death and Life of Public Enemy Number One” was written by a who’s who of ABC News journalists. The downloadable book includes archival ABC News video from 9/11 and video from the compound where bin [...]
Matcha’s social TV guide connects with Netflix, Hulu
The key for social TV guides to offer smart, relevant recommendations is user data — and enough of it. The more you know about a user’s favorites and viewing habits — and those of his/her friends — the more relevant TV shows you can recommend. The problem is, not everyone “likes” their favorite shows on [...]
Fox station changes Facebook profile to missing student
Fox 59 WXIN in Indianapolis has changed its Facebook profile to help in the search for missing Indiana University student Lauren Spierer: This is just one of the social media efforts to spread the word. You may have noticed celebs and sports stars retweeting “Help us #FindLauren, Indiana University student missing since 6/3,” and there’s [...]
Nintendo eyes social TV with Wii U second screen
As the iPad rapidly becomes the second screen of choice for television, Nintendo has unveiled its own second screen for gaming (and potentially TV viewing) called the Wii U. The controller features a 6.2 inch touchscreen, an accelerometer, a microphone and two built-in cameras, and it’s designed to extend games beyond the TV set. “It’s [...]
New Playstation TV lets 2 people see different views
It’s a safe bet that more people will buy 3D television sets for gaming than just about anything else, and Sony unveiled a Playstation-branded 3D gaming TV set today with a killer feature. If you’ve ever played two-player video game on the same screen, you know how split-screen action is problematic — your screen size [...]
Glenn Beck’s pay network offers Facebook virtual rewards
Even Glenn Beck admits it may be ahead of its time. After departing from Fox, Beck is launching his own subscription TV network that will cost his fans $4.95 to $9.95 a month. “I think we might be a little early,” Beck told the NY Times. “But I’d rather be ahead of the pack than [...]
MTV breaks multiscreen records around Movie Awards
MTV says it “trended like hell” during last night’s movie awards, with 270,000 #MovieAwards tweets sent and eight of the top ten trending topics associated with the show. Just before noon today, there were still four trending topics worldwide (MTV Movie Awards, Emma Watson, Poor Selena and Justin Bieber Won). The Movie Awards also topped [...]
Twitter briefs: iPad TV, Twitter, Newsstand, Couric
Thanks to Apple and Xbox, lots going on today on @lostremote: – New iPad feature will allow you to view the device on a TV screen – Twitter built into iPhones, iPads to make photo and video sharing easy – Apple to roll out Newsstand to sell magazine, newspaper subscriptions – Katie Couric joins ABC, [...]
Live TV, YouTube, Bing coming to Xbox Live
Updated: Xbox took another big step today in its quest to become the social TV hub of your living room. Xbox Live’s Marc Whitten announced a bevy of new features at E3 for Kinect-enabled systems. “We believe TV is more amazing when you’re the controller,” he said, unveiling a new voice-controlled navigation system spanning games, [...]
MTV’s second-screen experience rocked Movie Awards
Many second-screen experiences these days are rather elementary — after all, we’re still in the early throes of social TV. But in collaboration with AttractTV, MTV.com served up a compelling second screen site that corresponded with the MTV Movie Awards. The MTV VIP Pass was a feed of a variety of behind-the-scenes cameras with a [...]
Xbox TV? All eyes on Microsoft at E3
Monday morning Microsoft will take the stage at E3 to announce, well, something about Xbox that has lots of folks buzzing about it. Even Microsoft is fueling the buzz. “The Xbox home entertainment pot will be boiling over,” explains Microsoft’s Frank Shaw in a blog post. This site claims the announcement will be for a [...]
MTV may try a Twitter TV first for Movie Awards
MTV has led the way with social TV integration during live events, and this Sunday’s Movie Awards will be no different. In fact, MTV believes its Twitter trend use will be a first for TV. “Twitter’s allowing us to switch the promoted trend in real time,” Kristin Frank, GM of MTV Digital, tells Lost Remote. [...]
BBC says tablets are ‘an amazing opportunity’
The BBC says it has surpassed 10 million app downloads worldwide across its news, games and magazines on iPhones and iPads. And for longer-form producers like the BBC, the British media company says tablets are an “amazing opportunity.” “The great thing about it from our perspective is the session times,” explains Daniel Heaf, Digital Director [...]
