Comments on: Social Telly – a roundup of social viewing stuff

By: Roo Reynolds

Roo Reynolds — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:05:13 +0000

And another one: Oscars + Facebook chat

By: Roo

Roo — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:30:39 +0000

Thanks everyone. Especially John (1 & 2) and Tom (6) whose links now form part of my peripheral memory on this subject.

John: I had seen Photophlow but had never heard of Videophlow or Kaltura. Thanks.

Tom: it’s great to be reminded of the foundations of this stuff. Thank you.

By: Tom Coates

Tom Coates — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:29:28 +0000

You ever see the stuff I mocked up while I was at the BBC? http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2005/03/social_software_for_settop_boxes/ Also the audio annotation stuff, although for radio, was pretty interesting: http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2005/10/on_the_bbc_annotatable_audio_project/ They launched it in the end, although I wasn’t so keen on the final interface.

By: StoryGas

StoryGas — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:02:37 +0000

Awesome list – thanks – it brought me to your blog and, slightly off-topic, but I’ll now be linking to you on my ‘blog for people who work in online drama’ here!
http://storygas.blogspot.com

All the best
NEIL

By: Robert Schultz

Robert Schultz — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:08:15 +0000

I think CBS has done the best job in launching social viewing rooms thus far. They get lots of traffic and the app is very social and interactive. I believe they are using the ClipSync technology.

Bob

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:32:13 +0000

Great list. I was contemplating doing something similar, but this is far more comprehensive than what I would have been able to manage. Bravo!

By: John Eckman

John Eckman — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:19:10 +0000

At risk of seeming like a spammer leaving multiple comments in a row, let me add one more, because I think this is a really useful post.

Kaltura is an open source & SaaS platform for collaboration around video – including things like remixes. It’s essentially a browser based multitrack multiformat video editor with community features, enabling users to collaborate together on a video asset or set of videos.

By: John Eckman

John Eckman — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:09:15 +0000

Also worth checking out in this space is Oortle, which was part of the launchpad at Web 2.0 Expo (San Francisco) this year. They have two products - photophlow and videophlow. (Is the "ph" for "f" substitution the new dropped vowel of web 2.0?). Videophlow (described in this TechCrunch entry):

[T]akes the . . . dynamic community experience and applies it to YouTube. Groups of friends watch the same videos simultaneously as they interact with chat, emoticons, and gestures - viewers can even throw virtual tomatoes at the screen, complete with an animated splat. All users will see the same portion of a video at the same time, even if they skip to a different scene. And best of all, groups can seamlessly transition to new videos. This has the chance to be a big hit - I can easily imagine groups of friends swapping (and watching) their favorite videos during late night viewing marathons.