How data helped me learn to love the small screen
How do you design for smaller screens that we manipulate with our fingers? You use data. Lots of it, parsed with sophistication and nuance. Read more »
Tweek.tv wants to be your social TV guide
Tweek.tv wants to become your social TV guide and recommend interesting movies, TV shows and web content based on the things your friends have liked on Facebook. The German startup is emerging from stealth mode today and also announcing a first round of funding. Read more »
Shocker! Social content discovery might not work
Social networks like Twitter and Facebook have helped to raise awareness of content online, and made it easier for videos to go viral and be seen by the masses. But betting only on social might not be the best strategy for apps focused on video discovery. Read more »
Shelby.tv opens to the public with an iPad app
Shelby.tv is now open to the public, making its social video recommendations service available to all. And it’s doing so with the introduction of an iOS app that will bring the same type of video viewing experience available on its website to the iPad and iPhone. Read more »
Shelby.tv adds Hulu to its social video recommendations
Things are heating up in the social video recommendations space, as startups seek to become the Pandora of online video. One of them — Shelby.tv — just got some huge validation from Hulu, which is now allowing its videos to be viewed in the startup’s recommendation system. Read more »
VHX optimizes its social discovery site for the iPad
VHX.tv is going mobile in a big way. The social video discovery startup, which launched its website earlier this year, has optimized its platform to work on Apple mobile devices like the iPhone and iPad. It even has AirPlay for watching videos on your Apple TV. Read more »
Showyou now lets you save videos and watch them online later
Showyou is updating its iPad and iPhone apps to make the consumption of videos shared on social networks easier. In particular, Showyou gets “watch later” capability, as well as its own website and a bookmarklet for video sharing. Next up for Showyou: an Android app. Read more »
Shufflr.tv Curates Videos From Twitter Celebs
Want to know what kind of YouTube videos Paris Hilton is tweeting about, but don’t care about the other four tweets she’s sending out per hour? Then you might be interested in Shufflr.tv, which uses the Twitter accounts of celebrities to curate your social video feed. Read more »
Showyou Adds YouTube, Vimeo and Tumblr Support
When Showyou launched, it promised a better way to find new videos being shared among users’ friends and contacts on social networks like Twitter and Facebook. With its latest update, the video discovery app has added support for more sources, including YouTube, Vimeo and Tumblr. Read more »
Showyou Makes Your iPad a Wall of Social Video
Showyou was designed to enable easy discovery of videos that users might not have seen otherwise. It works by pulling videos that are shared by your friends on Facebook and people you follow on Twitter, and displaying them in an immersive grid-like experience on iOS devices. Read more »
