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TVLoop.com - Where TV Meets Social Networking
Mashable! —
... Now, the folks at Watercooler have decided to give TVLoop a centralized space of their own: TVLoop.com. The site features over 200 popular TV shows (forget about most of them if you don’t live in the US, though), and has 15 million registered subscribers which come from the biggest social networks: Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, and hi5. ...
Moving beyond social networks, Watercooler launches TVloop.com
VentureBeat —
... Until today, Watercooler has been a social network application developer — it builds hundreds of fan apps for TV shows and sports teams. Now, it’s launching a site, called TVloop.com, that will put some 20,000 pages of content generated by its social network users onto the web. Pages on the site will include things like message boards and blog posts created by fans for 135 popular TV shows. The site will also include games and quizzes already offered on Watercooler apps. ...
Building on Hulu
L.A. Times Tech Blog —
Time Warner Cable Chief Executive Glenn Britt has been grumbling publicly about TV networks streaming their programs for free online, evidently unhappy with the thought of customers dumping their $50-a-month cable subscriptions for the free feeds from Hulu and ABC.com. I ...
Watercooler Brings Content From Every Major Television Network To Its 16MM TV Fans
TechCrunch —
The race is on between sites like Hulu and Joost to bring video content to the web, but as this content becomes more ubiquitous it will be the sites that go beyond basic video streaming that will ultimately be able to differentiate themselves. Watercooler, a development house behind several hundred community-based social network applications, is one company that is positioning itself well for this upcoming face-off. The startup has built up a community of 16 million registered users spanning its TV-centric applications on MySpace, Facebook, and other popular social networks, and ...
Website of the Day: TV Loop
GeekSugar —
Formerly just a popular Facebook app, TV Loop has gone indie and launched its own website — think of it as a hub of TV paradise mixed in with its own social network.
Once you sign up, you customize your homepage by picking your favorite TV shows, past and present. From there, fun clips, trivia quizzes, photos, and quotes from those shows that cover your screen. The constant trivia quiz (yes, I aced the Gilmore Girls one) already had me losing a half hour of my time. Time well spent, though.
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Clicker's guide to the unlimited-channel universe
L.A. Times Tech Blog —
One testament to the popularity of online video is the growing number of sites that serve as Internet program guides, helping people sort through the billions of available items to find something they might like to watch. The latest, Clicker, has its official launch at 10:30 this morning (it had ...
