NextGuide’s new website turns your friends’ Facebook likes into your TV guide
Ever wondered which movies and TV shows your friends like on Facebook. NextGuide makes it easy to find out – and then find services to stream these flicks. Read more »
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What the shift to the cloud means for the future EPG
The purpose of the on-screen guide has shifted. By connecting the guide to content-recommendation engines and advertising platforms, service providers and connected-TV device manufacturers are using the EPG as an access point for understanding consumers and reaching out to them to own the living room. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Dijit’s new NextGuide tries to reinvent the TV guide on the iPad
Dijit is reinventing itself as a social TV guide with a new iPad app dubbed NextGuide that mixes live TV recommendations with results from Netflix and Hulu. The app is based on lessons it learned with its previous second-screen remote control application. Read more »
TVGuide.com’s new iOS app: social TV for the mainstream
What do you do when the world of TV is changing, but you represent a brand that stands for continuity? TVGuide.com’s new iOS app tries to bridge that divide by sticking with the good old grid guide, and augmenting it with a personalized watchlist. Read more »
Boxfish’s new TV guide iPad app is like crack for news junkies
Ever wanted to know exactly which TV network is talking about a certain topic right now? Boxfish’s new iPad app has got you covered: The company indexes the closed captioning data from 3,600 TV stations in real time and presents it in a Twitter-like fashion. Read more »
TVGuide.com buys online programming guide Fav.tv
TVGuide.com has bought Fav.tv in a deal that’s been described as an acqui-hire. The Fav.tv team will join TVGuide.com to strengthen its mobile strategy. One of the first tasks for the new hires: Make TvGuide.com’s personalized Watchlist recommendations a centerpiece of its mobile apps. Read more »
GetGlue’s next iPad app aims to reinvent the TV guide
GetGlue announced a new $12 million round of funding Wednesday, and the company has big plans for the money: It plans to launch a new version of its iPad app in Q1 of this year that will be a personalized take on the TV Guide. Read more »
TVGuide.com-paidContent Survey Shows Big Spike In Online, Time-Shifted TV
Consumers are watching more TV today than ever before, but that increased consumption is rapidly changing with the times. According to a new… Read more at paidContent »
Online video consumption moves from minutes to hours
Close to three percent of online video viewers watch more than 24 hours of online video per week, according to a new survey. And 62 percent of users profess that they are watching more video online than just a year ago, according to a similar study. Read more »
Does online buzz equal real-world ratings? It’s complicated
Most word of mouth still occurs in face-to-face situations, but social media has emerged as a powerful tool for getting the word out about shows. Even so, until now there’s been some debate about how effective social media actually is in creating a ratings lift. Read more »
Five sites to keep track of your fall TV favorites
We all love fall TV, but never know when shows are on: Check out this list of services to find episodes of your favorite shows online and get reminders via email, SMS, iCal or even tweet when a new episode is airing on TV. Read more »
Online TV guide Fav.tv launches on web, iOS & Android
Fav.tv wants to keep you up to date about your favorite TV shows, but without any of the distractions of other social TV platforms. Instead of asking you to check in to certain shows, it wants you to interact after an episode has aired. Read more »
Fav.tv wants to simplify your TV schedule
Fav.tv wants to help you to keep on top of your TV schedule by letting you subscribe to your favorite shows. Users can get an iCalendar feed of the shows they’re following, and the site eventually wants to use its data to help TV networks. Read more »
Vid-Biz: Comcast-NBC Deal Delay, Nalts Joins NNN, Arnold Screams
Today on the Net: Jeff Zucker reveals what’s been keeping the Comcast-NBC deal from going through, TVGuide.com has measured over 10,000 daily check-ins from fans watching TV shows, and if you’ve ever wanted to spend seven minutes listening to Arnold Schwarzenegger scream, you’re in luck. Read more »
Nova Spivack's Live Matrix: A Programming Guide for the Live Web
The web is now host to many live events — streaming video, virtual worlds meetings, online sample sales — but there’s no grid to tell us where it all lives and what’s on at any one time. That’s what Live Matrix wants to do. Read more »
