When you’ve got to watch it live

There’s been a lot of discussion around the possibilities of time-shifted TV viewing and what it means for Social TV.  Again, there are certain situations in which viewers’ desire to socialize around a given program is being supported by technology that allows them to watch the program whenever they want, making the  socializing aspect the [...]

TVOT: Great chatter from yesterday

The chatter on Twitter yesterday at TVOT had some good little gems that we wanted to share with everyone.  We’re looking forward to the same level of discussion on today’s schedule!

What other gems did

Social TV Makes Tough Choices a lot Easier

We’ve spoken a few times about the benefits of real-time communication (“The Benefits of Real-Time Communication Capabilities,” 7 December 2009), and the shift to “appointment TV” (“Ashlee Vance Indicates that People Want Social TV, and Now,” 6 January 2010). I keep coming back to these concepts and how they might relate to the thought processes [...]

10 Resources on Mobile World Congress Goings-on

We enjoyed MWC last week, and we’ve also enjoyed following some of the stuff we might have missed, as there’s a lot going on there!  We put together a list of some good resources for you if you’re interested as well.

Mobile World Congress 2010 – Tom Hume , Managing Director of Future Platforms, draws some [...]

Are Tablets Discouraging SMS Usage? I Think Not....

I was catching up on podcasts this weekend, and listened to the Media Hacks series over at Six Pixels of Separation, the blog of Twist Image.  The January 31st episode was all about the iPad, and at one point I believe CC Chapman said – somewhat offhandedly – that this type of technology and others [...]

A Social TV Super Bowl to Dream Of

The Super Bowl is usually the number one watched TV event all year.  To boot, this year’s Super Bowl was the most watched individual program ever, with 106 million viewers.

It’s when everyone looks forward to getting together with friends, eating a ton of food, trash-talking fans of the opposing team, and hoping you at least [...]

Social TV News Round-up

We caught a few good posts recently on the Social TV space and thought we’d share them with you.

Social Media Meets Online Television: Social TV Brings Television 2.0 To Your TV Set [Robin Good, 27 January] – The revolution that is Social TV.

Report: Top 10 driving forces of digital marketing in 2010 [netimperative, 1 February] [...]

Former Bebo, MTV, BBC exec Angel Gambino to join our Advisory Board

Angel Gambino has joined the MediaFriends Advisory Board.  With a passion for technology and media consumption, Gambino’s expertise will add significantly and positively to MediaFriends’ business goals and will help support its initiatives in new media and Social TV.  “Angel brings a unique combination of social media and content expertise to our Advisory Board,” said [...]

We've been nominated for the Spiffy Awards

Cool!  We’ve been nominated for the Graham Bell Award for Best Communications Solution as part of the Telecom Council of Silicon Valley’s 2010 Spiffy Awards.

The Council “reviewed over 100 Telecom startup companies across broad a range of telecom products and services” and thought MediaFriends was pretty neat.

We’re excited, and hope you’ll support us when it [...]

The Benefits of Real-time Communication Capabilities

Figuring out how to leverage current technologies to make real-time communication opportunities readily-available will be important across all media formats, especially [...]