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Foursquare and Bravo take Social TV Outside

Not all Social TV has to take place in the living room. Recently, TV network Bravo teamed up with website Foursquare to get viewers to visit real-world locations related to Bravo TV shows like “The Real Housewives”, “Top Chef” and “Shear Genius”.

Foursquare is a “check-in” website that enables users to broadcast their current location to [...]

Skype on your TV: How Much is Too Much?

“The coexistence of TVs and PCs has illustrated one of TV’s chief appeals to be its lack of interactivity. In fact, one of the first truly successful IPTV applications was caller ID on the TV screen, not because it brought the application of telephony to TV, but because it allowed consumers to better ensure that [...]

Public vs Private: Finding the right platform for Social TV

Meredith talked a little bit last week about what “social” means in the context of Social TV, and what makes something truly social.  There were some great points in the piece, and it made me think of something that we take pretty seriously here, – the issue of private vs public interactions.

Neither one is necessarily [...]

Participatory media, engagement, and being live

Last Friday, Mark Cuban wrote a great post that discussed the participation levels of media – specifically of TV and internet – versus the shelf life that piece of media has.  He describes the participation value as follows:

“At the bottom of the spectrum are games/shows/movies/events that you watch or attend by yourself, and you have [...]