Phoenix TV station ties Facebook push to social good
Belo’s KTVK and AZFamily.com in Phoenix have launched a Facebook initiative to donate bottles of water to the Salvation Army as the summer months heat up. It’s a different twist on increasingly-popular Facebook contests designed to drum up more fans. Here’s how it works. By “liking” the KTVK Facebook page, you donate a bottle of [...]
HBO’s social TV visualizations dazzle with ‘Connect’
HBO.com has launched a beta social TV experience called “Connect” that features some of the most beautiful social media visualizations on the web. The home page (below) displays a real-time visualization of conversations around HBO shows, measured by Bit.ly clicks and mapped to locations. Click a show and you can connect with its various social [...]
Tweet briefs: Schiller, X-Factor, GetGlue, Disney.com
A few TV and social media stories from @lostremote in the last 24 hours: – Former NPR chief Vivian Schiller joins NBC News as chief digital officer – Fox’s upcoming show X-Factor accepting two-minute auditions via YouTube – GetGlue snags its first sponsor in movie check-in promotion – Disney.com will relaunch with video-on-demand, but Netflix [...]
Paris Hilton flaunts social media for TV show premiere
“The World According to Paris” premiered on Wednesday night on Oxygen, and while the show aired, Paris Hilton chatted with fans on Facebook while an on-screen hashtag focused the conversation on Twitter. In fact, it was the longest, most prominent on-air hashtag we’ve seen yet — #TheWorldAccordingtoParis appeared in the upper-right of the screen the [...]
ABC’s video mic flags spark a little Twitter buzz
If you’ve been watching the NBA Finals on ABC, you may have noticed something a little different with the microphone flags. Here’s a clip: They’re “video name tags” from the Recom Group. If you watch carefully, you can see the ABC logo morph into “The Finals” logo every few seconds. Typically used for “personal signage,” [...]
Twitter adding photo uploads, multimedia search
Twitter just announced that it’s partnered with Photobucket to soon allow users to upload photos from Twitter.com and its mobile apps (and presumably, its newest acquisition, Tweetdeck, too.) With the new feature, Twitter is also updating its search and hashtag results page to display photos and videos: These are obvious improvements for Twitter, which is [...]
Roku bringing Angry Birds to your TV set
The mega-popular mobile game Angry Birds — which has sold 200 million downloads — is coming soon to TV thanks to a deal with Roku. Starting this summer, new Roku boxes will have Angry Birds pre-installed for free. And that’s not all. “Roku will offer Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Rio video [...]
Publishers besieged by onslaught of social buttons
Yesterday Twitter rolled out its one-click follow button, and today Google is is announcing that publishers can now embed its new +1 button. Earlier this month, Tumblr debuted a sharing button, and a few days before that, Facebook rolled out its “send” button. With so many social buttons, where should publishers put them all? Which [...]
