MTV tops Twitter’s tweets-per-second in 2011
As part of its year-in-review, Twitter released its top tweets-per-second for 2011. Surprisingly perhaps, the World Cup, Steve Jobs, the Japan Tsunami and the East Coast earthquake didn’t top the chart.
Instead, the MTV VMAs took home the honor of the most simultaneously-tweeted moment of the year with 8,868 tweets sent in a single minute….
Comcast testing personalized social TV experience
At the Cable Show earlier this year, Comcast demonstrated a new cloud-powered, Xfinity TV experience that featured personalized programming recommendations, integrated search and Facebook integration.
In a presentation at the TVOT conference, Comcast’s Brian Curtis gave a bit of an update on the ongoing product trial — called Project Xcalibur — in August, GA.
Shazam for TV launches first campaign for a movie
Shazam for TV continues its efforts to change traditional TV spot buying by launching their first campaign for a movie. The company has announced that they’d be working with 20th Century Fox to launch their first movie promotions campaign for Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked. The campaign will run through the end of December, and the film opens on the 16th of the month.
Cox debuts iPad app with live streaming for cable customers
Cox joins Time Warner, Cablevision and Xfinity in rolling out a companion iPad app (iTunes) for its customers. The free Cox TV Connect app provides a program guide along with live streaming for “more than 35 popular channels.” However, it doesn’t provide a TV remote (that’s Cox’s Mobile Connect app) or on-demand playback (that’s available online.)
Like other services, Cox requires that cable subscribers watch video via Cox’s internet service, which limits the playback experience at the subscriber’s home. Up to 5 iPads can connect at the same time.
Microsoft beats Apple in enabling first TV you can talk to
The war over the future of TV is in full throttle in a Microsoft/Apple world that does not consist of Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. We just wrote about the possibilities that Xbox Live could bring to social TV, and now Microsoft is about to roll out a new Xbox update that brings voice-controlled Kinect, Bing search and new content providers like Hulu and NBC’s Today Show to its video experience.
Tracking journalists on the all-new Muck Rack
I’ve decided to take a rare step back and look at how a project I’m involved in is affecting the social TV equation, so full disclosure up front. Muck Rack has been defining what it means to be a journalists in the age of the social web. With the largest database of verified journalists, the community has flourished by offering a way to see what’s trending among our curated community, navigate within top outlets and find individual journalists Twitter accounts, and understand how journalists “social bylines” are equally as important as their bylines with their outlets. I hope you’ll enjoy the rare occasion where we turn the tables to share our own projects, in the case brand new tools to track thousands of journalists on Twitter and social media.
Twitter announces top tweets for 2011
Twitter has announced its top tweets for 2011 — that’s top tweets as judged by Twitter, not in terms of a metric like retweets or impressions — and in a post on ABCNews.com yesterday, co-founder Jack Dorsey offered some insight into how some of the tweets were chosen.
For instance, he had this to say about the massive volley of Tweets during and after the Japanese earthquake in March:
Fox, MTV take November as most social TV networks
Trendrr has released its November numbers tracking the most social TV networks and shows, and Fox and MTV lead the list in social share of voice.
As far as the top broadcast TV shows, Fox took three of the top five spots in November…
New YouTube is more social, more like TV
YouTube has just rolled out a major redesign that gives the site a social shot in the arm while shifting its focus from the willy-nilly world of outlandish videos to a more polished, TV-like presentation. On the home page, the site’s rich media, double-punch advertising display will be the first thing you’ll notice. The increasingly-familiar Google bar rests across the top, with my G+ notifications there, as well…
Personal media assistant Dijit to launch iPad app
In September, Dijit, an app that can act as a universal remote for your entertainment system, launched a slew of social features including Facebook recommendations, YouTube search integrations and their own check-in. Today, the San Francisco based startup has announced their first iPad app.
Jeremy Toeman, Dijit’s Chief Product Officer, described the new product…
Connected TV Marketing Association launches [interview]
The Connected TV Marketing Association (CTVMA) launched yesterday in New York, London and Melbourne, Australia, along with individuals from 47 chapters around the world. With projections that connected TVs “make up to 90% of the global TV market by 2014, with sales reaching 123 million,” the CTVMA was founded to help organize and promote a quickly-growing industry.
Sony Bravia TV sets add Twitter ticker, Facebook app
Like an increasing number of connected TV sets, Sony’s Bravia sets are adding built-in Facebook and Twitter integration, along with the addition of YouTube HD.
The Twitter ticker scrolls tweets from your account along the bottom of the screen…
Miso announces $4 million investment from Khosla Ventures
Social TV startup Miso has been having a great fall. They’ve secured partnerships with two MSOs (DIRECTV and AT&T U-verse) and now they’ve added another $4 million in funding from Khosla Ventures to their original $2 million, which, Google Ventures and Hearst Interactive Media participated in.
At the recent Social TV Summit, founder Somrat Niyogi continued to remind everyone that Miso is now more than just a check-in. For Showtime’s Dexter (their first launch partner last month) they synchronized, “interesting tidbits, facts, quotes, and more,” almost like an opt-in pop-up video for the show…
