It seems that people nowadays can’t watch cable television or streamed video content without contemplating a corresponding hashtag or status update. And judging from our social TV charts, it seems the more current the event, the more important the tweet.
This week, the Republican Presidential Debate on Fox News took the social cake by a wide lead, followed by WWE TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs — oh my! Oddly, two cartoons tied for number four on cable and broadcast, respectively. Finally, SNL squeezed into the top 10 rankings this week — probably for its delightful cameos, which included Triangle Sally!
The data below is compliments of our friends at Trendrr, who measure specific TV show activity (mentions, likes, checkins) across Twitter, Facebook, GetGlue and Miso. To see daily rankings, check out Trendrr.TV.
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The BBC's wildly popular iPlayer app was updated last week to include support for the iPhone and iPod touch plus the ability to stream TV over 3G. As a result of all the new features, iPlayer for iOS has been downloaded over 1.1 million times in just the last week alone. What's more interesting is that 500,000 of those downloads were to people who have never downloaded the app before.
Daniel Danker, BBC's General Manager of Programmes and On Demand, told The Guardian that the new 3G streaming support is the main reason the download numbers were so high: "Last week, 20% of all requests on iPhone were on 3G. That's amazing in such a short period of time. And yet when we look at the audience feedback, nobody has really reported streaming problems over 3G."
Stuart Dredge's Guardian article shares more numbers from Danker along with the BBC's thoughts about on mobile television and developing for Android versus iOS. For those who are more interested in the creation of the app from concept to implementation, read this excellent post by Chris Elphick, Senior Designer of the BBC iPlayer iPhone App project.
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Cablevision cable customers will soon be able to enjoy HBO Go.
The cable company was one of the few major holdouts when the service launched on iOS and Android earlier this year. On Friday, another former holdout, Time Warner Cable, also announced that it will support HBO Go.
This is a big win for HBO — and for the TV Everywhere ecosystem. In a statement, HBO Co-President Eric Kessler says HBO Go will now be available to 98% of HBO subscribers.
HBO Go allows HBO subscribers to access every episode of every season of nearly every program in HBO’s vast library. This includes current shows, like Game of Thrones, True Blood and Boardwalk Empire, as well as past hits like The Sopranos, Sex and the City and Oz.
HBO Go also offers a wide array of movies, documentaries and original films — replicating the same content airing on HBO in a given month. HBO’s sister channel, Cinemax, also has its own TV Everywhere offering, MAX Go. HBO Go and MAX Go are available on iOS, Android and an increasing number of third-party devices, including the Xbox 360 and Roku.
The success of HBO Go — an app that managed 5 million downloads in just six months — is proof that TV Everywhere as a concept can work.
As a Brooklynite who uses Cablevision for my Internet and cable TV, I’m ecstatic that I can stop “borrowing” my parents Comcast ID and access HBO Go the official way. Cablevison says the service should roll out to customers in “the next few months.”
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Apple is hard at work redefining the future of the TV, and that future includes a TV set that supports wireless streaming, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing sources familiar with the matter.
Unfortunately, this latest in the long line of Apple iTV rumors doesn’t bring many specifics on what exactly Apple’s next-gen TV will look like.
According to “people familiar with the matter,” Apple is in talks with media executives at several large companies and is developing a TV with wireless streaming capabilities.
One thing that will play an important part in Apple’s upcoming TV product is voice recognition software, similar to Siri. The software “might allow users to use their voices to search for a show or change channels,” the WSJ says.
Another important aspect of Apple’s strategy is the synergy between all the other devices in Apple’s ecosystem. For example, a user might start watching a video on a TV set, then continue viewing it on a tablet.
None of this has been officially confirmed by Apple. WSJ‘s report says it is “unclear” when the company plans to start selling such a device, and even if a date were set, Apple may change its plans at any time.
[via WSJ]
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If you're really serious about a White Christmas, this is how you do about it. Over at Instructables, user MakeSnow has a step-by-step guide to building your own backyard snow machine that will cover your lawn in fresh fluffy white stuff anytime the weather is cold enough to keep it from melting on impact. All you need is just over $100 in your pocket when you visit the hardware store, and the time to put it all together. More »
  
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This is a Christmas tree with a Cthulhu plushie on top and a bunch of tentacles stuck on branches. Because why shouldn't Christmas be more about scaring children? "Who told you that?" The Santa at the mall with the evil clown face! Just kidding, it was at a rave and he told me he's not bringing anything but nightmares this year. " Jesus." WHERE?!
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San Francisco-based startup Favo.rs launched last week, offering an online marketplace where people can connect with and build relationships with business contacts. Users can request and provide help, negotiating with others for professional favors.
When you join the site, you can provide your profiles from social networks like Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, but you can interact with other members whether or not you’re connected to them.
Requests for help can be anything from a retweet to an introduction and they are tracked to reveal who you help and who helps you the most, causing users’ visibility within the network to rise. They gain a reputation by earning points for helping others and can achieve different status levels: rookie, participant, advocate and benefactor.
A recommended user list lets people easily find others to follow based on their industry, location, common connections in social networks, and social network influence. A relationship tracking feature shows users who helped them the most and who they helped the most in the past 30 days.
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NBC and Foursquare are joining forces to map the 2012 U.S. presidential election. The “Campaigns Check-In” feature will be part of NBC’s new NBCpolitics.com, which launched Wednesday. The site serves as a hub for all the network’s political coverage.
Visitors are able to see where each of the GOP candidates are making campaign stops in real-time, and where they’ve been throughout their entire election campaign. Campaign milestones and other activity are also easily visible.
The candidates will be given access to unique widgets that track their individual campaign; these can be embedded on their website. Supporters will also be able to see exactly where their favorite presidential hopeful has been making appearances.
The site will also display checkins from NBC’s political journalists covering the elections. NBC News will offer Foursquare users unique, co-branded political badges beginning in 2012.

“Understanding where candidates go on the campaign trail and why they go there is a fascinating story that we wanted to share with consumers,” said Paige West, Creative Director of MSNBC.com. “Visually mapping the campaigns’ activities as we progress through each state’s nominating contest and the general election is the best possible way to bring that story to life. Without Foursquare, it wouldn’t be feasible for us to produce this type of content.”
NBC’s goal for its site is to unify all of the network’s TV and web political coverage and provide a unique interactive experience to visitors — one not possible through television alone. NBC White House Correspondent Chuck Todd told Poynter that NBCPolitics.com will include tools for visitors to do their own electoral vote tracking and other data analysis.
A complementary iPad app, similar to the one Todd uses on TV, is on the way.
Will you use NBC’s interactive tools to follow the campaign trail? Let us know in the comments below.
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