A couple things have come across my desk this week pertaining to almost the same thing. So I let them percolate in my brain for a bit until I was ready to tell you about it
We weep for the numbers tacked onto our ages this past week. Well, I don't actually. But I know many do.
In this week’s Reel Web, we discuss several online video trends and updates from the past week including: more updates and changes at YouTube, Comscore’s most recent stats around online video consumption, Viacom’s interest in social tv, and a
The growth of social activity in conversations and check-ins around TV programming has grown by about 91% year over year, according to a study by social TV tracking service Trendrr.TV . The company also uncovered several interesting trends regarding social activity. Meanwhile, electronic program guides are starting to incorporate social buzz about shows, such as the iPad app from TV listings service Veronica Magazine in Holland, which might prove an interesting template for how to weave social buzz into a program guide
This week, you probably missed even more online video news stories than normal.
Boxee will give you the ability to share what you're watching straight to Facebook with a new expansion of the integration of the service into its software. Those of you with the Live TV dongle attached to your Boxee Boxes will be able to share without leaving the TV program. I managed to catch a glimpse of it at Showstoppers at CES 2012 and thought that it was pretty cool.
In many ways, 2011 was the year of the tablet, while social TV and online video partnerships enjoyed a robust twelve months as well.
A recent firmware update for the 2011 Sony Bravia TVs brings with it the ability to do some social networking right on your TV without ever leaving the program, something I have stated I would like and I'm sure some others would as well. On NFL Sundays Twitter and Facebook feeds are generally aflutter with all manner of game related tweets and status updates, but it's always been a two screen approach. Sony is ready to offer a one screen solution for anyone with a 2011 Bravia TV
Mark Suster is a technology entrepreneur turned venture capitalist. He's started and sold two companies, worked at Accenture, founded Launchpad LA and is a part at GRP Partners, the SoCal venture capital firm. So he has his finger on the pulse and recently spoke at the Future of Television (which I missed) about his ten signs that Internet TV is ready to disrupt things in 2012
That might be the most number of uses of the word video in a title by me, ever. The VideoMind Video Index is a quarterly report that will offer everyone an insight into what's going on in the world of video and, I quote,
